MAILBAG Fantastic Four Marvel's First Family

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week YOU lead the Fantastic Four discussion! We answer your questions about everything Marvel's First Family from stories we love, tropes we want to retire, characters we want to see more of, and moments we never want to hear referenced ever again. Did your question make it to air? Listen to the full episode & find out!

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0:00.0	Oh, Ashley, look, I got a letter.
0:15.4	Yeah, you did.
0:16.2	I got a letter just from a flying cat.
0:19.4	Wow.
0:20.3	And it was... Not from a silver surfer? It was being held by a flying robot. Wow. And it was not from a silver surfer.
0:21.9	It was being held by a flying robot.
0:24.0	Wow.
0:24.4	And this letter is, okay, let me see here.
0:27.5	Hold on.
0:28.2	Comes from Frankie Frankerson.
0:31.6	Mm.
0:32.2	Who says, Ashley, who's your favorite member of the Fantastic Four?
0:37.3	Herbie, duh. Well, let's limit it to the four. The actual four. The actual four, not the FF, not the auxiliary members, not the children. This is not like the X-Men and we're not going to, we can't have 5,000 members of the Fantastic Four. Let's stick to the original four. There's only one possible answer to this question.
0:54.6	The thing.
0:55.5	Sue Storm.
0:56.2	Okay.
0:57.0	Obviously, Sue Storm.
0:58.1	Why Sue Storm for you?
0:59.3	Because she's a woman and that's feminism.
1:02.5	Can we get more of an answer than that?
1:04.6	Sue Storm is a character who I think has a really, really great trajectory because when
1:10.4	you read the OG Fantastic 4 by Stanley and Jack Kirby,
	...

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