The Fantastic Four came into being thanks to a rocket designed by ace scientist Reed Richards. Pilot Ben Grimm (Reedes best friend) took the experimental rocket up for a test flight, bringing along Reed, Susan Richards (Reedes wife), and Johnny Storm (Susanes younger brother). When the ship passed through cosmic radiation too strong for its shields to withstand, the passengers were all bombarded with cosmic rays. Crash landing on earth, the four discovered that the radiation had left each of them with a strange, new powers.
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