The Fantastic Four (1994)

Fantastic Four (2005)

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Fant4stic (2015)

In July 2019 at the San Diego Comic-Con, producer and head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, announced that a Fantastic Four film set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in development. In December 2020, it was announced Jon Watts will direct the film.

Fantastic Four (1967)

The Fantastic Four (1978)

Fantastic Four: The Animated Series (1994)

Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes (2006)

Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010)

Fantastic Four (1961) #1 — First appearance of Johnny and the original FF origin story.

Fantastic Four: Season One (2011) #1

Fantastic Four: First Family (2006) #1 - #6

Mythos: Fantastic Four (2007) — Best origins history in my opinion, it shows a very young Johnny getting his powers.

Fantastic Four (1961) #2 - #18, Annual 1, #19 - #30, Annual 2

Strange Tales (1951) #101 - #112, Annual 2, #113 - #134 — Really fun and centric Johnny stories, worth the read even if 60s comics are not your jam.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1, #3, #8, #17 - #19, #21 — You can skip these if you want, but they are so much fun I had to add them. You can see how Johnny’s relationship with Peter evolves.

Fantastic Four (1961) #31 - #32 — Johnny and Sue’s backstory.

Fantastic Four (1961) #33 - #43, Annual 3, #44

Fantastic Four (1961) #45 - #50 — Johnny and Crystal’s love story. Also, Johnny goes to college and meets Wyatt Wingfoot!

Fantastic Four (1961) #51 - #56, Annual 4, #57 - #64, Annual 5, #65 - #80

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 4 — Spidey and Johnny battle and brawl from coast to coast.

Fantastic Four (1961) Annual 6, #81 - #93 — The final issues of the Lee and Kirby era.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #76 - #77 — Peter and Johnny reluctantly team-up to fight against the Lizard.

Fantastic Four (1961) #94 - #119

Marvel Team-Up (1972) #1 - #3, #10, #39 - #40, #61 — Peter and Johnny team-ups. They finally admit they’re friends!

Fantastic Four (1961) #120 - #128

Fantastic Four (1964) #129 - #132 — Johnny/Crystal drama. And Johnny gets the red costume as a homage to the original Human Torch.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #126 - #127 — The iconic “I just had to see your lovely face, Torch” panel belongs here.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #130 — It features the Spider-Mobile Johnny and Peter built together.

Fantastic Four (1961) #133 - #150

Marvel Team-Up (1972) #18, #23, #26, #29, #32, #35 — Johnny teams-up with Hulk, Iceman, Thor, Iron Man, Daimon Hellstrom and Doctor Strange.

Giant-Size Fantastic Four (1974) #2 - #6

Fantastic Four (1961) #151 - #170, Annual 11, #171 - #179, #181 - #188

Fantastic Four (1961) - #191 - #193 — The FF break up and Johnny doesn’t take it well.

Fantastic Four (1961) #195 - #200, Annual 12 - 13, #201 - #203

Fantastic Four (1961) #204

Fantastic Four (1961) #205, #207 — Johnny attends Security College, Peter shows up to save him. Read it, it’s Spideytorch at its finest!

Fantastic (1961) #208 - #213

Fantastic Four (1961) #214 — Johnny has to save the lives of his teammates on his own.

Fantastic Four #215 - #217, Annual 14, #218 - #223, Annual 15, #224 - #232, Annual 16

Marvel Team-Up (1972) #100 — Spider-Man/FF team-up.

Fantastic Four (1961) #233 — A death row inmate calls upon Johnny to solve a murder he did not commit.

Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #59, #89 — Both feature Ben and Johnny stories.

Fantastic Four (1961) Annual 16, #234 - #257, Annual 17, #259 - #262

Fantastic Four (1961) #263 - #264 — Johnny is kidnapped. Ben and the Mole Man team-up to save him.

Secret Wars (1984) #1 - #12 — Not Johnny centric but fun all around. Skip it if you want.

Fantastic Four (1961) #265, #267 - #270, Annual 18, #271 - #284, Annual 19

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #258 — Peter goes to Reed to get rid of his black suit. Johnny has a lot of fun.

Marvel Team-Up (1972) #147 — Another team-up with Spider-Man.

Fantastic Four (1961) #285 — Johnny swears off being the Human Torch completely when a young fan sets himself on fire.

Fantastic Four (1961) Annual 19, #286 - #298

Fantastic Four (1961) #299 - #302 — Johnny marries “Alicia”. It becomes a mess later on, but it shows part of how Johnny perceives love.

Fantastic Four vs. The X-men (1987) #1 - #4

Fantastic Four (1961) #303 - #305, Annual 20, #306 - #317, Annual 21, #318 - 321

Daredevil (1964) #261 — Johnny helps a desperate Karen Page search for a dying Daredevil.

Fantastic Four (1961) #322 - #333, Annual 22, #334 - #346, Annual 23, #347 - #349, Annual 24, #350 - #354, #356 - #370, Annual 25, #371 - #388, Annual 27, #389 - #400

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #362 — Johnny helps Spider-Man convince Venom to help him stop Carnage together.

Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) #1 - #11

Fantastic Four (1961) #401, #403, #407 - #416

Fantastic Force (1994) #9 - #15, 18

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #407 — Johnny searches desesperately for the real Spider-Man.

Untold Tales of Spider-Man (1995) #13 — Spider-Man blames himself for the death of a friend. Johnny comforts him in a very Johnny way.

Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995 — Spideytorch and Christmas, what else could you ask for?

Fantastic Four Unplugged (1995) #1 - #2 - #5

Fantastic Four (1996) #1 - #12 — Nothing special about it, but Johnny wears earrings. Heroes Reborn related stuff.

Untold Tales of Spider-Man (1995) Annual '96 — Peter asks Sue out to get on Johnny's nerves.

Heroes Reborn: The Return (1997) #1 - #4 — This is how heroes return to the original timeline. Skip it if you want.

Fantastic Four (1998) #1 - #12, Annual '98, #0.5, #13 - #22, Annual '99, #23 — This means the whole run? Yes. Mostly Claremont's FF that goes from #4 to #34. Totally go for it, it's really good. Also, a good place to start if you want to skip the old stuff.

Sensational Spider-Man (1996) #28 — Johnny confronts Hornet, one of Peter’s hero-identities, who Johnny thinks has something to do with Spider-Man’s disappearance.

Fantastic Four: Fireworks (1999) #1 - #3

Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #1, #4 — Johnny is still looking for Spider-Man. And then he finally reunites with him!

Fantastic Four (1998) #24 - #31, Annual 2000, #32 - #45, Annual 2001

Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #21 — Peter and Johnny have a bonding moment about moving on and going for it.

Sentry/Fantastic Four (2001) #1

Before The FF: The Storms (2000) #1 - #3 — More about Johnny and Sue backstory.

Peter Parker, Spider-Man (1999) #37 — Johnny shows up to save Spider-Man from the Vulture.

Fantastic Four (1998) #46 - #59 — Yes, I said the whole run.

Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine (2001) #1 - #12

The Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #4 — Johnny saves Spider-Man’s life from Venom.

Fantastic Four (1998) #60 — Waid and Wieringo’s era starts here.

Fantastic Four (1998) #61 - #66 — Sue makes Johnny Chief Financial Officer of Fantastic Four, Inc.

Fantastic Four (1998) #67 - #70, #500

Human Torch (2003) #1 - #12 — Johnny’s first and only solo series. Bad art but the first arc (#1 to #6) is the one I like the most.

The Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #21 — Where Johnny plays poker with a lot of supes and admits to have been involved with more than one gender.

Fantastic Four (1961) #501 - #518 — Part of the Avengers Disassembled event.

Fantastic Four (1961) #519 - 524 — Johnny becomes Galactus’ herald.

Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 (2001) #1 - #4 — The FF are miserable, so it’s a fun read. Johnny’s centric issue is #3.

Marvel Knights 4 (2004) #1 - #30

X-Men/Fantastic Four (2005) #1 - #5

Spider-Man Unlimited (2004) #9 — The men of the FF show up to help Spider-Man fight Electro.

Fantastic Four: Foes (2005) #1 - #6

Fantastic Four Wedding Special (2006) #1

Fantastic Four (1961) #525 - #535 — The road to Civil War, written by Straczynski.

Spider-Man/Human Torch (2005) #1 - #5 — Do I have to say anything else? Mandatory reading.

Fantastic Four Special (2006) #1

Civil War (2006) #1 - #7 — Do not read this. He gets hurt and ends up hospitalized.

Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #537 — In the middle of the SHRA chaos, Johnny sky-messages Peter to call him.

Fantastic four (1961) #536 - #538, #542, #543 — Civil War tie-ins. It also deals with the aftermath of it.

Fantastic Four and Power Pack (2007) — Cute and fun times all around!

Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four (2007) #1 - #4

Spider-Man Family (2007) #3, #7 — Another FF/Spidey team-up.

Fantastic Four (1961) #544 - #553 — Ororo and T’Challa join the FF replacing Reed and Sue who are trying to salvage their marriage post-CW.

Fantastic Four: Isla De La Muerte (2008) #1

Fantastic Four (1961) #554 - #561 — Millar’s run starts here and his characterisation of Johnny is ugh.

Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #1 - #4

Fantastic Four (1961) #562 - #569 — Issue #563 features an AU Johnny who is married to Reed. Also, cute interactions between Johnny and Valeria in #564 and #565.

Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four (2008) #1 - #3 — TW: Lyja.

Spider-Man & Human Torch in... ¡Bahía de los Muertos! (2009) — Another Spideytorch mandatory one shot.

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four (2009) #1 - #5

Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #590 - #591 — Peak Spideytorch. Peter reveals his identity to the FF (again) after the whole One More Day arc.

Dark Wolverine (2009) #75 - #77 — The start of Johnny’s peculiar relationship with Daken Akihiro.

Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #600 — Johnny and Peter team-up. Also, Spidey wears an oversized FF hoodie.

Amazing Spider-Man Digital (2009) #17 — Where Johnny asks Peter to watch his sex-tape with him. Totally normal. Absolutely heterosexual behaviour.

Fantastic Four (1961) #570 - #581, Annual 32

Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four (2010) #1 - #4

Daken: Dark Wolverine (2010) #3 - #4 — More Akihiro and Johnny. They seem to be very good friends taken to another level.

Incredible Hulk and the Human Torch: From the Marvel Vault (2011) #1

Fantastic Four (1961) #583 - #588 — Events leading to and culminating in the last stand of Johnny Storm. Saddest thing you will ever read.

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #657 — Can’t type, I got a Torch Song in my eyes.

Fantastic four (1961) #600 — Here we see what Johnny went through in the Negative Zone and him coming back!

Fantastic Four (1961) #602 - #606

FF (2011) #15 - #16

FF (2011) #17 — Johnny moves in with Peter gasps and they were roommates!

FF (2011) #18 - #23

Fantastic Four (1961) Annual 3, #609 - #610

Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #680 - #681 — Johnny is trying to catch up on everything he missed while he was dead (he dances to Friday before Peter shows up to bother him!) Simply iconic "Human Torch you’re my hero" line.

Daken: Dark Wolverine (2010) #21 - #24 — If you’re curious about how things ended for Johnny and Akihiro, this is where you go to.

Fantastic Four (2013) #1 - #15

FF (2013) #1, #4, #16

The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #700.5 — Yes, you guessed it! More Peter and Johnny being the best.

Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #2 — For Peter’s birthday, Johnny gifts him a flashdrive with all the things he missed while his body and mind were controlled by Otto Octavius.

Fantastic Four (2014) #1 - #14 — Lots of Johnny angst, Peter and Wyatt even team-up to knock some sense into him. Also, one of my fave runs, read it or perish.

Fantastic Four (1961) #642 - #645

Secret Wars (2015) #1, #3, #6 — Hickman goes batshit crazy and kinda kills everyone, good for him!

Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #3, #5 — Peter buys the Baxter Building. Johnny is mad. Drama ensues.

Uncanny Inhumans (2015) #1 - #4, #8 - #9 — Johnny is all alone in the world, so he joins the Inhumans (and causes more drama having a thing with Medusa).

Uncanny Avengers [II] (2015) #1 #2, #4, Annual 1, #5, #7, #9 - #12 — Johnny joins Old Man Steve’s Avengers.

Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man (2016) #1 — Yes, the infamous issue where Peter finds Johnny sleeping naked on his bed.

Uncanny Avengers [II] (2015) #13 #22 — In issue #20 Red Skull mind-controls Johnny into hurting Peter and his teammates.

Infamous Iron Man (2016) #9 — Ben and Johnny reunite after a long time of parting ways.

Uncanny Avengers [II] (2015) #24 - #27 — Secret Empire tie-ins.

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man (2017) #1 - #4, #298 - #300, Annual 1, #309 — Cute Johnny and Peter moments.

Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #790 — Peter loses the Baxter Building, Johnny is not happy.

Uncanny Avengers [II] (2015) #28, #30

Avengers (2017) #675 - #679, #682, #689 - #690 — Johnny sacrifices himself AGAIN.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2016) #24 - #30 — Lunella is iconic. Ben and Johnny team-up with her.

Marvel Two-In-One (2017) #1 - #6, Annual 1, #7 - #12 — I can’t even begin to explain the ammount of angst...READ IT.

Fantastic Four (2018) #1 - #4 — The FF are back and at Slott’s mercy, how sad.

Fantastic Four: Wedding Special (2018) #1

Fantastic Four (2018) #5 - #10 — Ben and Alicia finally tie the knot!

Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun (2019) #1

Sensational Spider-Man: Self-Improvement (2019) #1 — Another look at Johnny and Reed helping Peter with his symbiote suit.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #2 - #4 — Johnny being cute with kids! Peter trusts Johnny with his life!

Fantastic Four (2018) #11 - #20

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #12 - #14 — Spidey/FF team-up.

Annihilation: Scourge - Fantastic Four (2019) #1 — Johnny leads the people of the Negative Zone against Annihilus.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2016) #46 - #47

X-Men/Fantastic Four (2019) #1 - #4 — Makes no sense, like literally no sense.

Fantastic Four: Negative Zone (2019) #1

Fantastic Four: Marvels Snapshots (2020) #1 — Johnny centric one shot. He reunites with his high school mates, it’s really good! This made me like comics for an entire month.

Empyre (2020) #0 - Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four (2018) #21

Empyre (2020) #1 - #6 — He doesn’t do much, he just stands there and looks pretty.

Empyre: Fallout Fantastic Four (2020) #1 — Johnny has a deep and serious talk with Peter on the moon, because they can’t get more extra than that.

Fantastic Four (2018) #24 - #28

Fantastic Four: Antithesis (2020) #1 - #4

Fantastic Four: Road Trip (2021) #1 — Zombified FF one shot.

Fantastic Four: Life Story (2021) #1 - #3 — Guess what? Johnny dies again.

Dark Ages (2021) #1 - #3 — And he dies again.

The Marvels (2021) #2 - #5, #7

Fantastic Four (2018) #29 - #42 — This run is still a mess. Johnny is currently stuck in his Human Torch form.

Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules (2003) #1 - #4

Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four (2005) #0, #1 - #48

Fantastic Four: A Death in the Family (2006) #1 — Johnny defiantly decides to do whatever it takes to see his sister alive again

Fantastic Four: The End (2007) #1 - #6