''Fantastic Four Adventures'' is part of Marvel UK's 'Collector's Edition' line. It is being published by

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but reprints

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from the United States. It began in 2005 around the release of the Fantastic Four film and follows the format established by the Collector's Edition Range. ''Fantastic Four Adventures'' is sold once every 28 days through newsagents, although a subscription offer is available. ''Fantastic Four Adventures'' retailed at £2.40 upon its release, but rising in printing costs have seen the price rise to £2.50 and then onto the current price of £2.95. It was announced at the end of 2011 that ''Fantastic Four Adventures'' would cease publication with its final issue in March 2012, only to be replaced by a new CE, ''Incredible Hulks''.

Format

''Fantastic Four Adventures'' has 76 pages of which there is a contents page on the inside cover and a letters page on the inside back cover, named the "Fantastic Forum". It features very few advertisements, normally 4 of the 76 pages, which is very few compared to the American comics it reprints. All the advertisements are for Marvel-related merchandise. So far, only the first issue is the only one published to be extended to 100 pages. The cover is made out of a thick card unlike the US comics which is made of normal glossy paper. The printing work is of high quality. It currently reprints modern (about two years old) ''

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'' comics as two of its three 22-page stories. The 3rd story is a 'classic' story, a story originally printed in the 1960s. Currently it is reprinting the original ''Fantastic Four'' stories by

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and

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that established the characters from issue 1, but ended with 'The Thing No More', first printed within ''Fantastic Four'' #78. No classic featured in the last issue.

Content

It began by printing stories by

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and the run by

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and the late

Mike Wieringo Michael Lance Wieringo (June 24, 1963 – August 12, 2007), who sometimes signed his work under the name Ringo, was an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' ''The Flash'', Marvel Comics' ''Spider-Man'' and ''Fantastic Four'' ...

, but last printed Mark Millar's and Jonathan Hickman's individual runs on ''Fantastic Four''. It has also printed the

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''Freakshow'', ''Reed Richards Before the Fantastic Four'', as well as '' Fantastic Four: The End''. The comic magazine ended with the final arc of 'Three', the story that depicted the death of Johnny Storm, and a story entitled 'Uncles', originally printed in issue #588 of the US publication of ''Fantastic Four''. Readers will be unable to read the tales by Hickman depicting the aftermath of Johnny Storm's death which results in the formation of the FF featuring Spider-man, or The Human Torch's return, due to the cancellation of the publication. However, the Spider-man arc entitled 'Fantastic Voyage' will feature in 'Astonishing Spider-man' #67-68, published by Panini.

References

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