Fantastic Four (The Golden Heroes)

The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 (cover dated Feb. 1980). The Fantastic Four was the a superhero team created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, who developed a collaborative approach to creating comics with this title that they would use from then on.

Three of the individuals traditionally associated with the Fantastic Four, who gained superpowers after exposure to cosmic rays during a scientific mission to outer space, are Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), a scientific genius and the leader of the group, who can stretch his body into incredible lengths and shapes; the Invisible Woman (Susan "Sue" Storm), who eventually married Reed, who can render herself invisible and later project powerful invisible force fields; and the monstrous Thing (Ben Grimm), their grumpy but benevolent friend, a former college football star and Reed's college roommate as well as a good pilot, who possesses tremendous superhuman strength, durability, and endurance due to the nature of his stone-like flesh. The fourth was the Silver Surfer, an alien who saved his home world, and saved the other three.

Originally, the Fantastic Four included another hero, called the Human Torch and the Silver Surfer, whilst being in the Fantastic Four universe, was not a member of the Four. However, due to the popularity of the Silver Surfer and the dislike for the Human Torch, the origin story was rewritten. In the reboot, Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, was in the ship but the Silver Surfer didn't manage to save him and Johnny died. The Human Torch was brought back later as a villain, in Marvel's Galactic Pinnacle.