He even upstages the Thing in a test of strength. He claims his powers are far greater than theirs and demonstrates by growing into a giant, turning into a cloud, and controlling thunder and lightning. He points out the Fantastic Four and mocks them. The Miracle Man is performing at a theater.
Synopsis for "The Menace of the Miracle Man"
Intercontinental Passenger Missile (First appearance) (Seen in hangar).Pogo Plane MK I (First appearance) (Seen in hangar).Fantastic Four Uniform (First appearance).42nd Street and Madison Avenue (First appearance).General Fredricks (First appearance) (Unnamed) The Monster from Mars (First and only known appearance) (Destroyed).Human Torch (Johnny Storm) ( See chronology).Invisible Girl (Susan Storm) ( See chronology).Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) ( See chronology)."I think it's pretty common knowledge at this point that Marvel isn't publishing Fantastic Four because of their disagreement with Fox… We knew a year or so out that the Fantastic Four as a property wasn't going to be published at Marvel past 2015. Again, technically, you could verify this by saying the X-Men were saved from the cancelling of their comics (if not licensing) because they sold more, but Fantastic Four outsold other safe Marvel titles such as Wolverine and Daredevil.Īnd then last year, Jonathan Hickman, previous Fantastic Four writer and writer of the Secret Wars series, confirmed what we'd all known to be true, contradicting Brevoort's statements. Tom Brevoort told retailers at ComicsPRO last year that Marvel didn't publish Fantastic Four because it didn't sell. The Thing joined the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Human Torch joined the Inhumans. Secret Wars had strong appearances of the Four and ended with Reed Richards and Franklin remaking the multiverse, with Sue Storm and Valeria helping out. It is amazing how many of you guys asked some version of this question this morning.Īnd I can hear Rich counting the nickels from your page clicks. And for the Fantastic Four, the comics would be cancelled as well. Cancelling the X-Men comics would be too much, but they were to be sidelined and all licensing and publicity was to be cancelled. And that they didn't want to give any publicity, however small, to Fox over X-Men and the Fantastic Four. The game was on, and more details came flooding in - specifically that this was a direct order by Marvel chair Ike Perlmutter after a particularly fruitless meeting with Fox executives over the future of Fantastic Four rights. And while X-Men comics remain solid sellers, they are no longer the focus of internal promotion unless, as with the upcoming AXIS event, the Avengers get equal billing. And Marvel have been pushing Avengers, Guardians Of The Galaxy and other comics over the X-Men. Which is why the Inhumans are being pushed as mutant replacements in the Marvel Universe.
The belief inside the higher echelons of Marvel is that promoting these properties in comics only benefits Fox's movies at the expense of those from Marvel Studios.