In the spring, Marvel celebrates 700 issues of Fantastic four with a giant number featuring their old nemesis, Doctor Doom. Marvel recently relaunched Fantastic four with the new creative team of writer Ryan North and artist Iban Coello. Each issue focuses on a member of Marvel’s First Family and a mystery that has caused a rift between the group. Answers are slowly revealed, with February’s Fantastic four #4 Spilling all those secrets and getting the Fantastic Four back together. Unfortunately, Doctor Doom will get involved too, to correct Reed Richards’ failure.

“I feel privileged to be writing the Fantastic Four at any time, honestly, but if I get a major milestone issue on my watch, it’s certainly luck — and it’s an opportunity I didn’t want to waste,” said Ryan North in a statement. “A big anniversary issue like this requires a comparably big story, something meaningful, impactful and memorable. And given that it’s a super-big release with more leeway, everything is geared to do a story with the most meaningful, impactful, memorable of the Fantastic Four. , and super-sized villain: Doctor Doom. Doom requires nothing less than the biggest release of the year to be dedicated to him, and I dare not defy Doom. It’s a big twisty story that takes the Fantastic Four to their new home and looks at what happened to both families over the past year in a new light. The Fantastic Four are down, but not out, and Doom senses an opportunity…”

Alex Ross illustrates Fantastic Four covers

Legendary artist Alex Ross provides the covers Fantastic fourwhich is ironic since he also wrote and illustrated his first graphic novel featuring the Fantastic Four, which ComicBook.com revealed exclusively in December 2021.

“When I was a kid who read comics, I especially liked Alex Ross, and my brother used to tease me about it,” North said at the time Fantastic four was announced. “At the same time, I had just got my driver’s license. To drive his car, I needed car insurance, and car insurance is expensive when you are a teenager with no income. I forget how this started, but my brother would tease me with impressions of me by writing a letter to my favorite artist Alex Ross and saying, “Dear Mr. Ross, I love your work, would you please pay my car insurance?” He would ruthlessly do this bit.”

He continued: “I recently texted my brother saying, ‘You won’t believe what Alex Ross is doing. He didn’t buy me car insurance, but he’s doing coverage for my Fantastic four funny.’ That’s a joke for two people, but this is all to say I’m super excited. He’s a gifted artist and just the idea of ​​him drawing things that come from my writing feels like a fairytale.”

Fantastic four #7, the milestone of the 700th edition, goes on sale May 17.

• FANTASTIC FOUR #7/#700
• Written by RYAN NORTH
• Art by IBAN COELLO
• Cover by ALEX ROSS
• On sale 5/17
• Making his first appearance in North and Coello’s run, Doom will attempt to use his unparalleled expertise to right the fatal misstep that ushered in the new era of the Fantastic Four. Still in pursuit, the team causes a dramatic rift between Marvel’s First Family, but readers are only just beginning to put the pieces of the mystery together. After being fully revealed in FANTASTIC FOUR #4 later this month, the team is finally reunited, just in time for Doom to turn their world upside down once again! The iconic villain embarks on an epic journey through space and time to undo the damage his most bitter foes have wrought on the Marvel Universe. Will he be able to succeed where Reed Richards failed? Or will his interference make things much, much worse?
• During the oversized spectacle, the Fantastic Four will also make it to their new base of operations – unaware that their greatest threat has arrived there first! As their knowledge of LANGUAGE ITSELF begins to melt from their minds, the Four are confused as their very existence is at stake… and the greatest villain of all time finally seals their UNDERDOM.