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Advanced Game Official Accessory

The FANTASTIC FOUR ™ Compendium

by David E. Martin

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

A Brief History of the FANTASTIC FOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The Fantastic Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Friends of the FF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Races and Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Fiends and Foes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Travel Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

“From The Beginning Comes the End!” — A Fantastic Four Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Credits:

Author: David E. Martin

Editor: Christopher Mortika, Scott Haring

Cover Artist: Butler and Machlan

Typographer: Marilyn Favaro, Kim N. Lindau

Keyliner: Stephanie Tabat

Interior Artists: The Marvel Bullpen

This book is dedicated to Jack Kirby in

appreciation of his unique contribution to

the field of comic books.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE

FANTASTIC FOUR

The Fantastic Four has its origins at

Empire State University in New York

state. There, two young geniuses and a

rough-hewn athlete came together. Reed

Richards, son of the billionaire inventor

Nathaniel Richards, was roommates with

football player Ben Grimm. Although they

came from opposite backgrounds, Reed

and Ben became close friends. They

confessed their dreams to each other.

Reed wanted to build a starship. Jok-

ingly, Ben agreed to pilot the ship when

it was built.

Reed also met the strange genius,

Victor von Doom, from the eastern Euro-

pean country of Latveria. Reed recog-

nized a genius equal to his own. He did

not realize that Von Doom’s ego far sur-

passed his intellect. Reed discovered

von Doom was carrying on dangerous

experiments and using flawed calcula-

tions to guide his efforts. When Reed

attempted to correct von Doom’s calcula-

tions, the latter saw it as interference and

sabotage. Von Doom’s experiments liter-

ally blew up in his face. He left the U.S.

to pursue other studies that would even-

tually transform him into the dreaded Dr.

Doom.

As Reed progressed in college, he met

a young girt, Sue Storm, who would

someday become his wife, and her pre-

cocious brother, Johnny.

Eventually Reed began to apply his

skills to increase mankind’s knowledge.

His father had disappeared and left him

two billion dollars. Reed decided to use

the money to build his starship. He gath-

ered additional funding from the U.S.

government, which supplied him with a

base of operations near Central City,

California. Sue joined Reed there. While

Reed’s ship was still in the planning

stage, the four met and defeated their

first alien invader, Gormuu. This spurred

Reed to double his efforts because he

saw his inventions as a way of defending

humanity from alien threats. Reed was

soon to know how correct he was.

The government began to have sec-

ond thoughts about their financial role in

Reed’s project. Reed feared they would

soon withdraw their support. Since Reed

had exhausted much of his own fortune,

the project would come to a halt unless

he took a drastic step. He reminded his

old friend Ben, now an Air Force test

pilot, of an old promise. Ben was to fly

the starship on a secret, unauthorized

test flight. Reed would ride as co-pilot.

Sue and Johnny Storm forced Reed to

let them come along as observers.

The flight began smoothly; the four

snuck into the launch site and blasted off

before anyone noticed. The trouble came

when the ship was in orbit. Reed had

been forced to cut back on the radiation

shielding of his prototype. It was safe

enough for the normal hazards of space,

but it was unprepared for the freak com-

bination of sunspot activity and cosmic

radiation that affected the ship and the

foursome. The ship dove back to Earth.

The ship crashed near Ithaca, New

York. Miraculously, the four had survived,

but they had been changed. The weird

energy had mutated their genes and

given them super powers. In the middle

of the crash site, they realized they now

had a responsibility to use their powers

to help humanity. Henceforth they would

be known as the Fantastic Four.

Fortunately, Reed still had enough of

his fortune left to bankroll what was to be

the first new super-hero team since

World War II. They left California to set

up operations in New York City. In the

years that followed, the Fantastic Four

fulfilled Reed’s dream of benefitting and

protecting humanity. Reed’s inventions

made giant strides in technology. More

importantly, the group fought the emerg-

ing string of self-proclaimed super-

villains and the early wave of alien

invasions. The FFs greatest feat was

defending the Earth against Galactus,

Devourer of Worlds, not once but three

times.

Time changed the team. Reed and

Sue married and had a son. Ben fell in

love with with Alicia Masters, a famous

sculptor, then lost her to Johnny. Reed

and Sue separated over Reed’s drastic

method of dampening their son’s powers.

Other members came and went. Their

headquarters, the Baxter Building, was

wrecked several times, then sliced from

its foundation, and finally destroyed. Now

they have a new headquarters and a new

team roster. Reed, Sue, and Franklin

have left the team for a life in the sub-

urbs. Ben now leads the team. Life goes

on, things change, and so it goes with

the Fantastic Four.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the world of the Fantastic

Four. The FF are a unique group unlike

any other in the modern Marvel Uni-

verse. They were the first members of

the class of modern superhumans. They

were the first superheroic team to form

since the disappearance of such groups

in the early 1950s. The FF were the first

superheroic team to be financially self-

supporting. Most importantly, two and a

half decades of printed adventures make

the FF the stablest team in the history of

the Marvel Universe.

The FF represent a curious blend of

traditional superheroes and scientific

adventurers. The FF have never been

primarily a crime-fighting organization.

Their primary efforts have instead in-

volved discovery, investigation, and ex-

ploration of unknown or abnormal

scientific phenomena. Through Reed

Richards’ leadership, the FF have intro-

duced such things as Earth’s first star-

ship, the Negative Zone, the Microverse,

alien races, new worlds, and a nearly

infinite array of inventions including the

superheroes’ tailor’s friend, Unstable

Molecules.

Like any benevolent superheroic team,

the FF possess a Rogues’ Gallery of

adversaries. The FF’s annals have

brought us such memorable villains as

Dr. Doom, Galactus, the Skrulls, and the

ne’er-do-wells of the Frightful Four.

This book is designed to serve as a

guide to the world of the FF. It may be

read as a comics reference book or as a

sourcebook for gamers seeking to play

out the FF’s history. The first chapter

covers the team itself in all its various

incarnations. The second chapter deals

with family and friends of the FF. The

third section is an overview of various

races and organizations closely tied to

the FF, whether as allies or adversaries.

Important individuals in each group are

detailed as well their homelands and

equipment. Fourth comes the Fiends and

Foes, the listing of various of the FF’s

adversaries. In fifth place is the Travel

Guide, a guide to places and buildings

featured in the FF’s history, including the

Baxter Building and Four Freedoms

Plaza. The book concludes with a sec-

tion detailing the vehicles that have

served the FF through its long history.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR

The Fantastic Four Inc. is one of the best

known super-heroic organizations in the

world. It makes its services available

without charge anyplace in the world

there is a threat beyond the capabilities

of conventional forces. The group also

does applied scientific research; rev-

enues from patent leases makes the FF

one of the most profitable groups

around. Like most superheroic teams,

the FF remain an independent organiza-

tion free of government control.

However, the FF do have a close working

relationship with many national govern-

ments and organizations.

hold the rest of Fantastic Four).

• Imitation—Reed can alter his basic

features to resemble any other man

with his hair and skin tone.

• Phasing—Reed can lower his body’s

cohesion to such an extend he can

actually flow through minute openings.

• Shapeshifting—Reed can transform

himself into any solid mass he can

imagine. Normally he takes such forms

as spheres, rectangular solids, pyra-

mids, and so on, rather than complex

shapes such as those of other life-

forms.

• Two-Dimensionality—Reed can flatten

himself to the thickness of a sheet of

paper or narrow his body’s width to

pass through the eye of a needle.

Body Armor: Reed’s malleable form

gives him Remarkable protection against

physical attacks and Good protection

against energy attacks. By enveloping a

bomb and then expanding along with the

explosion, Reed can reduce the force of

the blast by his Power rank number.

Feats such as this physically exhaust

Reed, though. He cannot do it often. In

game terms, Reed must make a FEAT

roll at his Power rank against the intensi-

ty of the explosion every time he tries to

envelop explosions once he has

absorbed 20 points of damage.

Hyper-Intelligence: Reed’s Amazing Rea-

son is one of the highest in the galaxy,

insofar as engineering and laboratory

work are concerned.

Hyper-Invention: Reed’s Amazing rank

makes him one of the leading inventors

in the world today. He is not only able to

formulate his theories but actually create

practical devices utilizing them, often

while the rest of the Fantastic Four stand

around watching. He can operate or alter

previously unknown alien devices within

minutes of first encountering them.

TEAM ROSTERS

The term “Fantastic Four” has been used

to refer to a variety of teams operating

under the aegis of Fantastic Four, Inc.

While the public perception of the team

is of its founding members, the active

membership has varied through the

years, as new members are brought in to

temporarily replace founding members.

Unlike such teams as the Avengers and

the X-Men, however, at least two of the

founders have been members in each

team calling itself the Fantastic Four. In

order, the past teams rosters have been:

1. Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Human Torch,

Invisible Girl (founders)

2. Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Human Torch,

Crystal

3. Founders

4. Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Human Torch,

Medusa

5. Founders

6. Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Invisible

Girl, Power Man

7. Founders

8. Thing, Human Torch, Invisible Girl,

Reed Richards of Earth-A (in dis-

guise)

9. Founders

10. Founders and Frankie Raye

11. Founders

12. Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, Invisible

Woman, She-Hulk

13. Founders

14. Thing, Human Torch, Crystal, Ms.

Marvel II

MISTER FANTASTIC

Reed Richards

GD (10)

Health: 42

ATY(6)

(6)

Karma: 100

(20)

AM (50)

Resources: RM(30)

(20)

RM (30)

Popularity: 50

KNOWN POWERS:

Elongation: Reed can stretch or deform

any part of his body with Monstrous

rank. This enables him to elongate any

part of his body any distance up to 1500

feet. He most often uses this to increase

his reach and travel speed.

Plasticity: Reed can consciously distort

any part of his body with Amazing rank.

This enables him to perform a variety of

Stunts that simulate other powers.

• Bouncing Ball—Reed can travel at

Amazing speed by transforming him-

self into any of a number of resilient

shapes, such as balls or springs.

• Gliding—Reed can transform himself

into aerodynamic shapes such as

parachutes or hang-gliders. In normal

air, he only drops 15 ft for each turn he

stays aloft. In this form he can support

an additional 1000 pounds (enough to

TALENTS: Reed is one of the world’s

leading experts in Electronics, Physics,

and Engineering. He is also one of the

few people on Earth to be expert on

other dimensions and the ways to travel

to and through them. Reed’s patents are

so valuable that he is able to bankroll the

Fantastic Four, Inc., without any undue

financial stress.

CONTACTS: Reed is a founding member

of the Fantastic Four and has all the

group’s affiliations. Due to his reputation

and accomplishments in the scientific

field, he can call upon the Physics or

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