Reed is the son of Nathaniel Richards and his first wife, Evelyn who died when Reed was only seven. Reed seems to take more after his father, devoting a great deal of his time towards intellectual pursuits, often forgetting (or ignoring) basic human functions like sleeping and eating. He has always been a quick study and earned several degrees before attending Empire State University, where he met both Victor VonDoom and Ben Grimm, his roommate.Reed also attended The California State Institute of Technology, Harvard and Columbia University. It was there where he fell in love with Susan Storm, his landlady's 12-year-old niece. Nathaniel Richards vanished shortly after Reed's graduation, leaving him with a two billion dollar inheritance. And, although he had substantial backing from the government, Reed spent most of his fortune on building the rocket which eventually would grant him his super powers. As his project was being shut down, Reed, decided to test the rocket on their own. Reed's body became very maleable and elastic, allowing him to assume almost any form he can think of (maintaining, of course, a similar degree of mass). Reed has also theorized that the cosmic rays also heightened his intellect, making him one of the most brilliant men on Earth. Upon realizing what had happened during their space flight, Reed adopted the name Mr. Fantastic and founded, with his three-man-crew, the Fantastic Four.A few years after the Fantastic Four's creation, Reed married his long-time sweetheart, Susan Storm, Invisible Girl. Like all marriages, it has had a few problems have always returned to each other. The two have fostered two children: Franklin and Valeria.In one future, the son of Rachel Summers (daughter of Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops and Jean Grey a.k.a. Marvel Girl) and Franklin becomes the nearly all-powerful Hyperstorm. In an effort to preserve his own life, Hyperstorm banishes Reed into Earth's distant past. Reed was eventually rescued, but the experience left him doubtful and unsure of his actions until Onslaught threatened the life of his son. His self-worth restored, Reed helped lead the defeat of the menace.After returning from the Franklinverse, Reed quickly went to work restoring his team's History of the FF. He recently took up a graduate professorship at Empire State University and has been working constantly to create and patent new devices.

(known aliases include: Invisible Girl, Malice, Susan Benjamin)

 Real Name: Susan Storm Richards
Occupation: Adventurer
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: No criminal record
Other Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Glenville, Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Reed Richards (husband), Franklin Richards (son), Johnny Storm (brother)
Group Affiliation: Fantastic Four
Base of Operations: Pier Four, New York City
First Appearance: FANTASTIC FOUR #1

History: Susan Storm, the eldest of two children born to a physician and his wife, grew up comfortably in suburban Long Island. At age 12 she met her future husband, Reed Richards, then a Columbia University graduate student living in her aunt's New York City rooming house. Enamored of the shy but handsome scientist, Sue promised to keep in touch with him. When she moved to California to pursue an acting career, Sue again encountered Richards, and the two began a romantic relationship.

An aeronautical engineer, Richards was working on a starship that would make it possible to travel to other solar systems. When the government threatened to cut off its partial funding of the project, Richards decided to make an immediate test flight. It would have been just him and his friend, pilot Benjamin Grimm -- but Susan and her brother, Johnny, insisted on going along. In space, the starship unexpectedly encountered intense radiation, which caused the crew to abort the flight and crash to Earth. Following the accident, the four discovered that the cosmic radiation had triggered mutagenic changes in their bodies. Now able to turn invisible at will, Sue became a founding member of Reed Richards' team of adventurers, the Fantastic Four.

Note: the first Human Torch, was James Hammond, a android constructed by Phinias Horton. He fought along side Captain America and the Submariner during the Great War, as the INVADERS. Later to be Joined by Toro and Bucky and still later by Spitfire, Thinman, Union Jack and Jack Frost.

Recent Historic Note: It was once believed that the Android Vision was made from the Original Human Torch, this fact is not true, years later after the Vision joined the Avengers, the Human Torch Joined the West Coast Team, and has since retired.

 Real Name: Jonathan "Johnny" Storm
Occupation: Adventurer
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Other Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Glenville, Long Island, New York
Marital Status: Single (divorced)
Known Relatives: Susan Storm Richards (sister), Franklin Richards (nephew), Reed Richards (brother-in-law) Lyja (ex-wife)
Group Affiliation: Fantastic Four
Base of Operations: Pier Four, New York City
First Appearance: FANTASTIC FOUR #1

History: Jonathan Storm, the second of two children born to a physician and his wife, grew up comfortably on Long Island. Despite the fact his mother died in a car crash when he was nine, Storm developed an interest in automobiles at an early age. Storm passed much of his leisure time in the company of automobile mechanics and enthusiasts, and learned to totally overhaul a car's transmission before he was fifteen years old. For his sixteenth birthday, his father bought him his first "hot rod."

Storm went to California to visit his sister, Susan, who had moved there hoping to become an actress and there become engaged to marry aeronautical engineer Reed Richards. Richards was working on a starship of his own design that would make possible travel to other solar systems through hyperspace. When the United States government threatened to cut off its partial funding for the project, Richards decided to make an immediate test flight. He himself would ride in the starship, with his friend Benjamin Grimm acting as pilot. Susan and Johnny Storm insisted on going along as well. Sneaking onto the launch site and into the starship, the four launched themselves into space. The starship encountered unexpected intense radiation, which proved to be too much for the ship's shielding to block out. (It has been theorized that this was the result of a reduction in the extent of Earth's magnetosphere brought on by a solar flare.) As a result, the four people in the ship were exposed to intense cosmic ray bombardment. Aborting the test flight, the four returned to Earth.

The ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing and his famous battle cry " IT's CLOBBERIN' TIME" have become the thing of legends.

 History: Benjamin J. Grimm was born on Yancy Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he grew up in poverty. His father, an alcoholic, was unable to hold a job. Much of the family's income came from Grimm's older brother, Daniel, who obtained funds illegally as leader of the Yancy Street Gang. Grimm, who idolized his brother, became embittered against the world when Daniel was killed in a battle between rival gangs. Grimm was only 8 years old at the time; within 10 years, he had succeeded his brother as leader of the Yancy Street Gang. After his parents died, Grimm was taken in by his Uncle Jake, who had risen from poverty to become a successful physician. At first, Grimm resisted his new guardians' kindness toward him. But eventually, he came to return their love. He left his life with the Yancy Street Gang behind, entered high school, and became a football star there. While he was a senior at Stuyvesant High School, Ben received a football scholarship to Empire State University.

Grimm's freshman year roommate was the brilliant science student Reed Richards, who became his closest friend. During their first meeting Richards confided in Grimm his intention someday to build a starship for interstellar travel. Grimm jokingly promised that he would pilot the starship for Richards if he ever built it.

Upon graduating Grimm went into the U.S. Air Force and became a highly skilled test pilot and astronaut. In the meantime Richards went ahead with his project to build a starship, using both his own fortune and funding from the Federal government. On the day that Grimm left the military, Richards came to Grimm to remind him of his promise to pilot the starship.

Richards' project was based in Central City, California. When the federal government threatened to withdraw its funding from Richards' project, Richards decided to take the starship on a test flight himself as soon as possible. Grimm was opposed to the idea, warning that the starship's shielding might prove to be inadequate protection from intense radiation storms. Nevertheless, Grimm was persuaded to serve as pilot, and Richards' future wife Susan Storm and her adolescent brother Johnny insisted on accompanying Richards' as passengers. The four friends stole onto the launch facility, entered the starship, and launched it. They intended to travel through hyperspace to another solar system and back. However, unknown to Richards, a solar flare caused Earth's Van Allen radiation belts to be filled temporarily with unprecedented (as far as is known), ultra-high levels of cosmic radiation. Since the ship was designed to shield against ordinary levels of radiation, the cabin interior was subject to intense cosmic ray bombardment which irradiated the four passengers and wrought havoc on the ship's controls. Pilot Grimm was forced to abort the flight and return to Earth.

Wyatt Wingfoot, Johnny's best friend and College Roommate.

Wyatt once followed the FF to the jungles of the Wakanda Nation, home of the ruler, Prince T'Challa, the BLACK PANTHER. At the end of the Adventure, The Black Panther became a trusted allie and friend of Wyatt's and the Fantastic Four. Years latter while the second "Secret Wars" were taking place, the Sensational She-Hulk, replaced the Thing for a time while he engaged in the secret wars, this was prompted by the fact that she and Wyatt were very close prior to the secret wars and her joining the team.

Desmond Pitt, World War II Ace and Ben Grimm's best Army Buddy

Desmond's body chemistry and physical make up were altered by Diablo the alchemist. Desmond is known as DARKOTH THE DEATH DEMOND, Desmond was killed in this form saving Ben Grimm.

Alicia Masters is a blind sculptress, whom once resided in the Baxter Build (HQ of the Fantastic Four) before its distruction  and moved with the team to the new Four Freedoms Plaza. Alicia is Ben Grimm's long term girl friend. She is also a long time friend to the entire team and co-confidant with Wyatt. It is also known that her father Phillip Masters is a long time enemy of the Fantastic Four, known as the Puppet Master.

Alicia has many of her scultures of Super Being's among them are also some of the teams villians. One such villian is the "DRAGON-MAN" , He once abducted her, hoping that the team would follow him. The Dragon-man never ment Alicia any harm, his sole purpose was to enlist the FF in helping him regain his humanity. At the end of the battling with the Dragon-man, both factions parted ways as friends, and hoping some day a way could be found to grant the Dragon-man's request.