CATALOG RECORD
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection #1
Dates
- Cover date
- 2018
- On sale
- August 22, 2018
- Pages
- 388
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Stories
- The Bridge Chapter One · 22 pages
As the Fantastic Four prepare the Baxter Building for the arrival of Franklin and Valeria, Sue gets upset when she finds Ben and Johnny letting robots do all the work and Reed working on a new experiment. Reed presents his colleagues with The Bridge, a dimensional gateway which will allow him to look into alternate realities to discover how they have solved their problems. Reed turns The Bridge on and enters inside just as HAMMER attacks the Baxter Building and cuts the power. Sue, Ben and Johnny find themselves caught in an elevator that leads directly into a conglomeration of realities.
- The Bridge Chapter Two · 22 pages
The authorities enter the Baxter Building to give the Fantastic Four notice of Osborn's shut down of their operations but find themselves confronted by a belligerent Franklin. While the kids try to figure out how to turn the power back on, Reed is upstairs evaluating the superhero Civil War through countless dimensions, trying to find a viable solution to their current problems. Unbeknownst to both pop and the kids, Ben, Sue and Johnny are stuck shifting through realities confronting, first dinosaurs, then medieval knights and finally, pirates.
- The Bridge Chapter Three · 22 pages
While Reed utilizes The Bridge to look across a myriad of realities to find out the involvement of the Illuminati in each one, Ben, Sue and Johnny are lost in a dimensional storm where they find themselves as pirates, cowboys and WWII soldiers. Meanwhile, back in the Baxter Building, with their parents trapped on the chaos of the upper floors, Franklin and Valeria prepare to repel Norman Osborn and his agents who have come to shut down the Fantastic Four.
- The Bridge Chapter Four · 22 pages
Norman, Mac and HAMMER invade the Baxter Building looking for the Fantastic Four but Valeria catches Osborn in a legal loophole and brings him alone to face the wrath of Spider-Cowboy Franklin and his toy pistols of justice. Reed reaches some dire conclusions after studying the effect of the Illuminati across all realities and shuts off The Bridge. This also returns Ben, Sue and Johnny from a cross-dimension battle with Skrulls infected by Venom symbiotes. The Fantastic Four head downstairs to find Norman Osborn shooting at the children.
- The Bridge Part Five · 22 pages
The Fantastic Four find Norman Osborn running through the Baxter Building trying to shoot Franklin and Valeria. When Norman turns the gun on Reed, Franklin shoots him with a toy pistol which fires a very real bullet. Sue forces Reed to dismantle The Bridge but he secretly puts it back together again and uses it.
- ... And I'll Get the Land · 8 pages
Doom and Namor discuss their alliance, while Doom contemplates how he would get rid of the other member of the Cabal.
- Solve Everything Part One · 23 pages
- Solve Everything Conclusion · 22 pages
- Adventures on Nu-World · 22 pages
- Days of Future Franklin! · 22 pages
- Prime Elements 1: The Abandoned City of the High Evolutionary" · 23 pages
Mole Man requests the Fantastic Four's help with a city that the High Evolutionary built and abandoned in the subterranean world.
- Prime Elements 2: The Old Kings of Atlantis · 24 pages
The Fantastic Four explore the Peak, an undersea city beneath Antarctica, home of three distinct Old Kingdom Atlantean races, the Uhari, the Mala and the Chordai. Sue chooses to represent mankind to the inhabitants.
- Prime Elements 3: Universal Inhumans · 23 pages
The Fantastic Four journey to the moon and learn that the Kree created subspecies of four other races in the same manner that they created the Inhumans and that those four races and the Inhumans are ready to come to earth to live.
- Prime Elements 4: The Cult of the Negative Zone · 23 pages
Johnny inadvertently lets a group of Annihilus's assassins into the Negative Zone, where they kill a group of Blastaar's people. The city of Old Atlantis is moved to the surface of the Antarctic.