CATALOG RECORD

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1

Marvel · Series began 2009 · May 2009

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Dates

Cover date: May 2009
On sale: March 4, 2009
In stores: March 4, 2009
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition

Barcode 75960606755800111
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'70th Anniversary' Variant - Marko Djurdjević Cover

Barcode 75960606755800121
This edition’s page

Story arc: Dark Reign

This is part 42 of 200. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Simone Bianchi, Sean Cheninks: Andrea Silvestri, Lorenzo Ruggierocolors: Simone Peruzzi, John Rauchscript: Jonathan Hickmanletters: Virtual Calligraphy, Rus Wooton

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.

Publisher’s description

Dark Reign strikes Marvel’s first family—in an explosive way! Prepared to be blown away as: HAMMER agents attack the Baxter Building. Reed changes everything. The Human Torch suffers a horrible loss and Franklin and Val go shopping. There's Time travel, Alternate realities, Celestials, Eternals, Deviants and Doombots... and more important than all of that, we find out the answer to the question: What is the Bridge?

Reprinted in

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Adventures (2010), Marvel Firsts: Before Marvel Now! (2012), Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus (2013), Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection (2018)