Fantastic Four #570

History

Hickman arrived at Fantastic Four after a brief prelude miniseries, Dark Reign: Fantastic Four (2009), which he used to establish the interdimensional device known as the Bridge and set Reed Richards' psychological state heading into the main run. Editor Tom Brevoort oversaw the handoff from the Mark Millar/Bryan Hitch era, pairing Hickman with artist Dale Eaglesham, whose collaboration with Hickman was guided by a shared commitment to Kirby-inflected aesthetics — the two discussed drawing the characters as they looked during Jack Kirby's tenure, grounding a high-concept multiversal story in classic visual language. Paul Mounts colored and Rus Wooton lettered, rounding out the core creative team. Hickman has acknowledged that he was not a devoted Fantastic Four reader before landing the assignment and deliberately did his homework across the title's full history, synthesizing elements from multiple eras into what became one of the more cohesive and complete runs the series has seen.

Trivia · 8 facts

• First team appearance of the Interdimensional Council of Reeds — a gathering of alternate-universe versions of Reed Richards from different dimensions, each committed to solving every existential problem in the multiverse.
• Written by Jonathan Hickman with interior art by Dale Eaglesham; cover art by Alan Davis (with inks by Mark Farmer); colored by Paul Mounts; lettered by Rus Wooton. Editor: Tom Brevoort. Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada.
• Titled 'Solve Everything, Part One,' it opens Hickman's run on the series (Fantastic Four vol. 3, #570–588, 2009–2011) and is the first issue of a three-part arc of the same name spanning #570–572.
• The issue introduces the Wizard's fully organic clone offspring — a distinct, 'real-time aging' child distinct from the Wizard's other artificial constructs — who would later become known as 'Bentley 23' and recur throughout Hickman's run as a member of the Future Foundation.
• The Bridge, Reed's invention for peering across alternate realities, is reintroduced here after first appearing in Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1 and being hidden at the close of that miniseries.
• Multiple variant covers were produced for the issue, including a 1:10 '70th Anniversary Frame' variant by Dale Eaglesham and a 1:20 variant by John Cassaday, as well as a 1:100 sketch variant by Cassaday.
• The issue was collected in Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection Vol. 1 (which collects #570–578 alongside Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1–5) and later in the 2025 Marvel Premier Collection Fantastic Four: Solve Everything (#570–588), which features a foreword by The Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman.
• Fantastic Four: First Steps director Matt Shakman explicitly named Hickman's run — beginning with this issue — as a primary screenplay inspiration, citing the Council of Reeds, the Bridge, and the Richards family dynamics as elements that 'made it into our film in small and large ways.'

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