Sue Richards. Benjamin Grimm. Johnny Storm. They rocketed into outer space aboard an experimental starship, the first humans to attempt interstellar travel. But a freak encounter with cosmic radiation altered their lives forever, granting each amazing abilities.Forty years later, the greatest team of adventurers ever assebled continues to push the bounds of human exploration—discovering parallel dimensions, lost civilizations and hidden nations; initiating contact with alien races; and repelling all manner of threats to mankind, both terrestrial and cosmic.Now, Marvel's first family finds its members divided—their unique powers stretched to the absolute limit, their time-tested resolve pushed to the point of breaking. Each chapter of this quintessential collection focuses on one member of the cosmic quartet, as the team's greatest foes band together in an all-out assault on the FF.Collecting: Fantastic Four: 1234 1-4

    Marvel drafts two new recruits from the Avengers Initiative: Machine Man and Sleepwalker! And when the young hero Araña is kidnapped, it's time for Carol to use her newly expanded Lightning Strike Force to squash an evil that hits too close to home! Then, when the Skrull Secret Invasion is revealed, is Ms. Marvel on the front lines - or part of the infiltration herself? Outgunned and on the run, with S.H.I.E.L.D. convinced that she's a Skrull impostor, Carol must fight for her identity and her life against her very own squad - but they have a Ms. Marvel of their own! Plus, Carol faces a death in the family, fights to rebuild after the Skrull ordeal - and has a run-in with the ever-Amazing Spider-Man! COLLECTING: MS. MARVEL (2006) 18-34, ANNUAL 1