Fantastic Fiction: Fantastic Four Premieres and the Marvel Age Kicks Off

The text Fantastic Fiction against a retrofuturistic design of a rounded triangle shape with a gold swirl pattern.

With Seattle Worldcon 2025 coming up and Marvel films still in fashion, let’s look back on the premiere of one of the most important comics ever published. Fantastic Four #1 was released to newsstands just weeks before Seattle’s last Worldcon in 1961. This comic heralded Marvel’s emergence as the most popular line of comics in the world.