Mr. FantasticIt all started when an expert aeronautical engineer named Reed Richards, born in Central City, California, made some wrong calculations that led to the birth of new superheroes. With Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grim, Richards was caught off course in a comedic beam and transformed each person in the rocket in a different way. Richards gained the power to stretch his body to unrealistic lengths while Sue gained invisibility as her power. Johnny acquired a new flammability thus giving him the name, Human Torch, and Ben with the unfortunate power to transform into a "rock man" earned the name Thing. Especially for Ben's transformation, Richards held himself responsible for the accident since it was his rocket. When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created this quaternary alliance in 1961, coined as the Fantastic Four (FF), they were trying to bring together a group of ordinary, unmasked heroes into one group and also represent the flaws of ordinary people in the superhuman. Richards was named Mr. Fantastic as the group's father figure, with his beloved Sue, or now Invisible Girl, by his side. Mr. Fantastic and the rest of the Fantastic Four are just a few of the hundreds of superheroes created by hopeful citizens to improve American society one city at a time. The American superhero is depicted as an optimistic, longing-filled representation of the good, values, and morals that all Americans hold deep inside, just as Mr. Fantastic symbolizes the well-rounded man everyone hopes to be. The creation of Mr. Fantastic was born from the creation of a new paternal superhero. Lee and Kirby wanted to portray a more ordinary circumstance of becoming a superhero. To the mass market of children reached by comics, it can happen that... the middle of the paper... and, with that, the country has transformed into a more hopeful place to live. Works Cited Cotilletta, Anthony. "Mr. Fantastic." Marvel.com. Np, nd Web. 6 April 2014. "Fantastic Four (Earth-616)." Marvel.wikia.com. Np, nd Web. 6 April 2014. .Misiroglu, Gina Renee, and David A. Roach. The book of superheroes. Np: Visible Ink, 2004. Print."Mr. Fantastic." ComicVine.com. CBS Interactive Inc., ndWeb. April 6, 2014. .Weiler. “What impact have superheroes had on American popular culture?” Teen Ink: No. page Network. April 6. 2014. .