Executives like Tom Brevoort, however, denied that they would be cancelled due to anything like this, stating that the only reason such a comic would be cancelled was down to sales. Fantastic, Sue Storm, and Franklin off the board, while the Thing joined the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Human Torch joined the Inhumans and Parker Industries took over the Baxter Building.Īnd that was that. And in Secret Wars, Jonathan Hickman took Mr. Marvel staffers, some of whom have never even spoken to Bleeding Cool before or since, got in touch to share their outrage and hoped that exposure would force change - but despite the story getting wide play across the media from THR to Comic Book to Cinemablend to Screencrush to Slashfilm to Nerdist to Collider to Forbes, though not wide enough for George to notice, there was no change.Īnd so the comic book was cancelled before the Secret Wars event.

Posters were even ripped down from the Marvel offices walls featuring the FF so that he didn't have to see them when he walked through the offices. This also included the forbidding of sketch card artists to use the Fantastic Four characters, or Mondo for the posters, removing them from games or stripping them from the Marvel ID posters or statue lines or T-shirts, the deed was done. And aside from what may have been a trademark-enforcing move with Hasbro, that was it for the Fantastic Four and the gaming and sketch card restrictions remain in place this year.Ī specific instruction given by the Marvel Chairman Isaac Perlmutter that the comic be cancelled (though they were given the time to do it in the manner of their choosing) and all Fantastic Four licensing was cancelled immediately.

In a series of articles, starting in 2014, Bleeding Cool stated that Marvel were going to be cancelling their Fantastic Four comic books as a result of a falling-out with Fox Studios over the perpetual-while-they-keep-making-films license to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men rights that Fox holds.

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