
The Fantastic Four and Plastic Man came to be heroes in very different ways. Reed Richards was a brilliant scientist who built the first spaceship able to travel between planets. He took his girlfriend, Susan Storm, her brother Johnny, and his friend Ben Grimm on the maiden voyage. During the flight, a cosmic storm bombarded them with radiation, unexpectedly granting them amazing powers and forming the Fantastic Four – a world-renowned superhero team. Meanwhile, Patrick was a small-time thief who took any job for money. He earned the nickname “The Eel” because he could bypass any security system. But during a robbery at a chemical plant, Patrick fell into a tank of acid. This accident altered his body at a molecular level, giving him the power to shapeshift into anything he could think of. He then became the flexible and unpredictable hero known as Plastic Man.