The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the second cinematic reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise, and there's a lot riding on this film.
While cinema-goers have responded enthusiastically to many of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the history of the Fantastic Four on the silver screen is less heralded.
All the previous Fantastic Four films have been "commercial and critical failures," with the 2015 film being an infamous box office bomb.
Yet, in comics history, the Fantastic Four have been up to the challenge of driving a popular media enterprise forward -- something that the film producers and Marvel fans alike are both now hoping for.
In the 1960s -- the era in which Fantastic Four: First Steps, is notably set -- the comics presented a new class of superhero.
