A Closer Look - Fantastic Four Animated Series' DVDs 

Yes! Finally more love for the 2006 FF series! And here I was beginning to think I was the only one. It's great stuff, based on The Ultimate FF comics, which as you said basically revisit/reimagine a lot of the classic storylines.

I really wish there was more awareness to the 2006 series, but people only seem to talk about the Hanna-Barbera show. I mean, it's a great show too and the most faithful to the original source material, but we come to a point where those characters have to move on like the other superheroes. That's why I love that series so much. It's bold and fresh, the characters can be so fun and down-to-earth and if the F4 are ever brought to the MCU, I would love to see them that way. And this comes from a guy who never paid much attention to the F4 all those years ago as a kid! (I was mostly a fan of Doctor Doom)... and then I saw some Ultimate storylines, Jonathan Hickman's run, the Future Foundation, Annihilation, the original runs,... and all I can think about is that these are the F4 we needed. They're still explorers and diplomats, but they're all bound to the issues in their lives, like neighbors, lectures, events, villains, experiments, tasks, and more importantly, family issues. And people usually say the Incredibles is the most faithful movie adaptation of the F4 (without being the F4), but if these characters and tones were in a movie, they would get that place imo. I did like the 2005 movie though, but it felt like another action movie that was a bit too cheesy at times, even for that time, but they got the basic tones right (except it didn't feel exactly right and they wasted Galactus in the sequel).

Yeah, I really wish that would get a release.... I don't think I've ever actually seen an episode of it!

I watched the Hanna-Barbera one on Cartoon Network as a kid.

Probably because of copyright reasons.

Yeah, guessing because it only got the one release and that's been out of print for 13 years now.

Same, second season was soooo good!

@@zaranyzerak we understood why it didn't happen because marvel were Going bankrupt at the time

Yep, from 1967. Sadly it has yet to get any kind of video release whatsoever...

@@zaranyzerak I have the 1966 fantastic four series and it plays on my region 1 player

@@JayPatrol That would be a bootleg. Bootlegs aren't region locked. The 1967 series has never had an official release anywhere.

@@zaranyzerak i didn't know that or i wouldn't have bought it on etsy

Yes, I know that history thanks. I just made a mistake as to the company that made that one, it's literally been 38 years since I last watched it.

Yeah, I feel like most people bailed after the first season so they missed out on the stellar second season. We DID get Iron Man as a guest star in the 1996 Hulk series though (also voiced by Robert Hayes), so we at least have confirmation of them all being in the same version of the Marvel universe. Seems like the FF can just never catch a break!

@@zaranyzerak Not only that but a lot of MARVEL animated shows got cancelled too early due to low ratings and the fact that the X-Men & Spider-Man were dominating ratings during their which made it harder for any MARVEL fan-favorites to blossom into animation during that time period.

@@zaranyzerak I think the reason why the Fantastic Four always had a hard time blossoming into animation form is because their style is more sanitized and colorful rather than anything lands into the same level of other MARVEL elements.

@@zaranyzerak IMO the reason why the Fantastic Four never got a break in movies is because they make their tone serious which didn't work, the reason why the Fantastic Four stood out from the pack is because they had their own way of expressing themselves, rather than coming off as a serious instead they coming as old school and colorful with their simple stories and cartoony characters.

@@zaranyzerakThe thing what most people didn't really notice in the 94 show was the jumpsuit differences, in Season 1 they had blue & white jumpsuits but in Season 2 they had blueish/black & white jumpsuits

Yeah, there's some good bits in Season 1 sure, but Season 2 is like a completely different show, it's sooooo superior.

We understand why it never happened because marvel was facing finical problems and were filed for bankruptcy in the 90s. So that's why they sell their products to the film companies

I bet in an alternate universe, the 1994 show was like Season 2 and spanned 8 seasons.

Alas no, it's one of the few that's never been released anywhere ever... :(

Yeah, a couple people beat you to the punch on those factual errors. ;) And no worries, I figured it was due to being a later printing or something. I'm just happy to have the slipcover! It's...FANTASTIC! :D

Oh sorry, I should have realized that one or two people may have all ready corrected you with that error there, ah well. They may have short changed the booklets, but Clear Vision didn't skimp out on the slip covers, probably because they're cheaper to produce then booklets or something? :D

pixarman2001 that would be cool to see a closer look about that it's sort of weird because spectacular Spider-Man like was in 2008 and I was when I was born I don't know it's just sort of weird to me

We all wonder that... No idea why 90's Spidey keeps getting the shaft. It got a UK release, but even that's long out of print now.

It seems the only complete sets we got was Xmen and Fantastic 4. Why is it that the U.K. gets the complete series sets and America doesn’t. Well thank god we have Hulu (and now Disney+) but owning a physical copy is better. Maybe it has to do with right issues like with the 60s Batman series but then again Disney owns Marvel now so they could release the rest of the Marvel shows but who knows.

Possibly! Never actually seen it, but I've heard good things. I might pick it up.

Cool. I haven't seen much either but I did like what I have seen of it.

Zaranyzerak what also stinks is the first fantastic 4 movie from 1994 that I know of does not have an approved legal release of it. Outside of RU-vid I think the only way I know of to see it is from boot leg VHS tapes if they're still available. Also there is a slime chance that Sony may make another fantastic four movie before the rights expire if they're not thinking logically. The 94 film was made to buy time for how long they could keep the rights it was not planned to be released in any form sadly coreman and the cast did not find out the truth until after it was completed.

Ah, okay. I knew it was late 90's somewhere. It would be great to see that FF movie get some kind of official release, but it's in such a tangled web of rights issues I don't see it happening any time soon, if ever.

Here's hoping!

doubtful.

Only English language and English sub-titles.

My mistake. I often get those mixed up because Depatie-Freleng was founded by two former employees of Hanna-Barbera, and the animation style is virtually identical. Has the same look/feel/style of a Hanna-Barbera show. A lot of the same voice actors too.

Joe Ruby and Ken Spears even more so. They both worked for Hanna-Barbera and were instrumental in creating Scooby-Doo and you can see a lot of familiarity in their shows to Hanna-Barbera shows like Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Plastic Man, and Thundarr the Barbarian.

@@zaranyzerak DFE was founded by 2 former emps of Warner Bros. They hit it big with The Pink Panther in '64 and became rivals with H/B and Filmation from '68 - '79. Ironically they ended up selling their company to Marvel 2 years later.

I've actually just started watching the '96 Hulk series for the first time after marathoning the 80's series, enjoying it so far!

Nothing to mention, it isn't available on home video in any format. This is a Closer Look specifically at the shows that were released on DVD or that are at least available to watch in some form. The 1967 series, at the time, was not available to watch anywhere other than fan made bootlegs.

Yeah, apparently things fell apart pretty crazily behind the scenes.

Love it, never seen all of it, want it on DVD.

Not for sale, sorry. I'm a collector, not a seller.

@@zaranyzerak I use too have them on DVD sense on line iust not fine it too down load

Actually watch the 90s show. It's worth it to get through the cheesy first season for the absolutely superb second season. Second season is easily on par with World's Greatest Heroes imo, it's THAT big a difference between the two seasons. Same with the Iron Man series from the same year. It is absolutely "noteworthy" and if you're an FF fan, you're doing yourself a disservice by not checking it out!

Zaranyzerak thanks for the recommendation zaranyzerak It’s like I’ve said I’ve heard the 90s fantastic four series got better so maybe I’ll like the second season

Silly prudishness ruined this comment.

​@@zaranyzerakLOL.