The Doom-Defying, Two-Fisted Marketing of Fantastic Four

摘要

The Hulk got his big movie. Spider-Man and the X-Men are both working on their third. Daredevil got one, Blade got one (and then two sequels) - even the Punisher got two. But for years, the Fantastic Four have stood by while later and lesser characters from the Marvel Comics lineup got the full Hollywood treatment. To those who care deeply (too much, really) about such things, the neglect is bewildering; after all, the Fantastic Four were the first Marvel superheroes of the Stan Lee era, the foundation upon which his so-called House of Ideas was built. It was the Fantastic Four who established the Marvel trademark of sympathetic, all-too-human heroes, paving the way for all those poor Peter Parkers who followed. Not to mention that, well, a movie with Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing would just rock.