Fantastic Four's Dan Slott reveals the franchise issues he wanted his tenure to address. 'Fantastic Four is the whitest book ever. I created an alien race where everybody is Black or Asian or Black and Asian because, dear God, that was important to me.'
In a recent interview, Fantastic Four writer Dan Slott revealed what he believed to be the main issue with Marvel's First Family—an issue he tried to fix during his tenure on the series. Slott introduced an entire alien race where everyone has either Asian or Black features because he felt that the Fantastic Four had a big issue with representation, and in the process, he also fixed what he felt was Johnny Storm's biggest problem.
Just like every other Marvel book created in the 1960s, Fantastic Four featured predominantly white characters. In July of 1966, the series introduced the very first American"mainstream" Black superhero, the Black Panther, however, T'Challa remained a secondary character, and he would soon join the Avengers. The first Black hero to star in his own title was Luke Cage in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, in June 1972. Fantastic Four remained a white-centric book.
Characters such as those that make up the Fantastic Four, who have been around for more than half a century, have to deal with the changes occurring in society during that time. This is because Marvel's stories are not set in a fantasy world. Comics attempt to portray the real one world as accurately as possible to encourage suspension of disbelief in the readers.
Even Slott's decision to"force" Johnny to grow up was soon reversed when Sky caught him cheating on her with the Latverian champion Victorious. However, at the end of Slott's run, Johnny leaves the Fantastic Four to permanently move to Spyre, which will hopefully bring forward a big shake-up in the Fantastic Four status quo and provide the opportunity to fix some of the book's most problematic issues.Source: Marvel.
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