Fantastic Four (1978) - Pazsaz Entertainment Network

FF 1979 These are half hour long cartoons in a half hour format. The Fantastic Four has been used in three different series. In the third series, the second season, Marvel Productions switched animation houses and got a new look, feel and direction. For those of you who don't know who the Fantastic Four are - they are Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Susan Storm Richards (The Invisible Woman), Johnny Storm (The Human Torch), and Benjamin Grimm (The Thing). These four humans went up in a rocket ship of Reed's design in a race to be the first humans in space. Before Reed was finished with his research, news came of the impending blastoff of rival goverments. So the four humans took off and reached space first, but when they got there they ran into a cosmic storm. Besides being radiated by the cosmic rays, the storm destroyed the instruments of the rocket ship and they headed for a crash landing. Thanks to the brilliant piloting skills of Ben they walk away from the crash, but they find their lives have changed due the effects of the cosmic rays. Reed can now stretch all his body like rubber. Sue can turn invisible and later finds out she can produce force fields. Johnny bursts into flames, but finds he can control the flame and fly. But poor Ben. He turns into an orange rocklike monster with the strength of hundreds but at the cost of his humanity. They deside that their abilities should be used for the betterment of mankind and follow this pursuit and become the world's greatest team of superheroes.