Every Fantastic Four Run - Reading Order & Starting Points

Responsible for the dawn of a new age for the publisher, Marvel's First Family has been (self-)proclaimed as the world's greatest comic series, springing forth a multitude of characters including the Silver Surfer, the Black Panther, Galactus, and many others. It has enjoyed runs by some of the greatest creators in the business. It has also gone through periods of bad stories and bad sales that threatened its very existence, in and out of the medium. Listed here are every Fantastic Four run, phase, and series since the team's first appearance.

The essential reading order goes as follows:

Lee/Kirby's run
John Byrne's run
Walt Simonson's run
Pacheco/Marin's run
Mark Waid's run
Stranzinsky's run
Mark Millar's run
Jonathan Hickman's run
Matt Fraction's run
Secret Wars
Chip Zdarsky's Marvel 2-in-One
Dan Slott's run

Top ten ranks as follows:

10 - Marvel 2-in-One
9 - Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules
8 - Pacheco/Marin's run
7 - Mark Millar's run
6 - Fantastic Four: Life Story
5 - Fantastic Four: 1234
4 - Mark Waid's run
3 - John Byrne's run
2 - Jonathan Hickman's run
1 - Stan Lee/Jack Kirby's run

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