Fantastic Four #575

Name: Fantastic Four #575
Brand: Marvel
Availability: InStock

Mar 2010 · Marvel · 2.99 USD

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“Prime Elements 1: The Abandoned City of the High Evolutionary"”

★ 1st appearance — Turg★ 1st appearance — Tong★ 1st appearance — Korr

The tagline "There is chaos in the underworld…" sets the stage perfectly for this 2010 Marvel adventure, as the cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer plunges the Fantastic Four into a fiery subterranean hellscape. The Thing charges forward alongside a massive, menacing rocky beast with glowing red eyes, while a cloaked figure fires a brilliant energy blast, the Human Torch blazes overhead, and an Inhuman-looking figure dives through the tumult below. With Jonathan Hickman writing, Dale Eaglesham on interior art, and Paul Mounts on colors, this opening chapter of "Prime Elements" promises a bold, ambitious arc for Marvel's First Family.

writer Jonathan Hickman · artist Dale Eaglesham · colorist Paul Mounts · letterer VC · letterer Rus Wooton · cover Alan Davis, Mark Farmer

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Written by Jonathan Hickman; penciled and inked by Dale Eaglesham; colored by Paul Mounts; lettered by Rus Wooton; edited by Tom Brevoort; cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer with colors by Javier Rodríguez. Cover dated March 2010, released January 27, 2010.
First appearance of four Moloid characters: Turg, Tong, Mik, and Korr — all introduced unnamed. All four later became members of the Future Foundation in Hickman's run.
Tong, one of the four debuting Moloids, is notable as a female Moloid character who went on to become one of the more prominent members of the Future Foundation across multiple subsequent series.
First appearance of several new Marvel locations: the Forever City (also called the Abandoned/Forgotten City of the High Evolutionary), Aeolus Cave, Lechuguilla, and Meramec.
Part 1 of the 'Prime Elements' arc (issues #575–578), subtitled 'The Abandoned City of the High Evolutionary.' Each of the four issues in the arc focused on one of the four cities that would fuel Hickman's later 'War of Four Cities' storyline.
The High Evolutionary (Herbert Edgar Wyndham) appears only in flashback/as a corpse; his abandoned subterranean city — which used 'Darwin bubble' technology to hyper-evolve its Moloid inhabitants — is the central concept driving the plot.
The Thing is temporarily transformed by the city's Evolutionary Engines into a more simian form before returning to normal.
The story has been reprinted in: Fantastic Four: Jonathan Hickman Vol. 2 (collecting #575–578); Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman: The Complete Collection Vol. 1; and the Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1. A 2nd printing and a Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic Women of Marvel variant cover edition were also released.