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On Earth-616, Spider-Man, a new hero and broke teenager, decided to put his powers to use and attempt to join the Fantastic Four for pay and adventure. He broke in to the Baxter Building and broke in to display his abilities,[1] only to be trapped in a glass container by the Fantastic Four. He broke out and asked to join but was turned down due to his bad reputation with the Daily Bugle, and because the Fantastic were a government funded and non-profit organization. On Earth-772, Spidey joined anyway, reluctantly telling the four his true identity.[2]

As the Fantastic Five, the team started out well, stopping the Vulture's crime spree, forcing the Chameleon into hiding, and winning the Space Race for the United States. They found the Red Ghost, his Super-Apes, and Uatu the Watcher on the moon. (Instead of Sue Storm being on the spacecraft, as in the original Fantastic Four storyline, Spider-Man was aboard and Sue was monitoring the mission from Earth).[2]

When the four returned to Earth, having captured the Super Apes, they found that Sue has been captured by the Sub-Mariner, who was secretly being controlled by the Puppet Master. A mental projection of Namor tells where Sue is, and they went after her. After a brief fight with Namor, the Puppet Master became desperate to defeat this new team, and pushed the Sub-Mariner even harder in the fight, almost killing him. Always thinking two steps ahead, Richards realized Namor was being controlled after a quip from Spider-Man. Breaking the spell, Namor communicated with a massive octopus and had it break through the underwater dome and crash into the Puppet Master's submarine. While Spider-Man and the Human Torch fixed the broken dome, Mister Fantastic and the Sub-Mariner allowed Sue to decide who she showed stay with. She chose the Sub-Mariner, feeling as though she was no longer needed on the Fantastic Five, making it the Fantastic Four once again.[2]

The others continued as the Fantastic Four, but Reed and Johnny blamed Spider-Man for Sue's leaving, while the Thing felt they were both being unfair on Peter. A rift developed while the team battled foes such as Doctor Doom, Super-Skrull, and Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android, eventually driving Spider-Man and the Thing to leave the team in anger. Soon thereafter, Namor invited the team to celebrate the birth of his and Sue's first child and a bitter Reed misinterpreted Namor's actions. The two came to blows and Reed with Johnny Storm's support soon framed Namor before the United Nations in an attempt to start a war with Atlantis. After the Thing revealed Reed's treachery to the UN, Johnny and Reed were left disgraced, and they decided to attack Atlantis themselves. While the Warlord Krang sacrificed his life defending Atlantis, Reed witnessed Sue's devotion to Namor and came to his senses. He ended the attack and rededicated his life to bringing peace between the surface world and Namor's Atlantis even as Sue gave birth to Namor's first son, Leonard McKenzie.[3]

Over time, Susan and Namor's differences grew too great. She and Namor amicably split, he restored her air-breathing nature and Sue left her ex-husband and son to return to the surface world. The Fantastic Five later reunited with Reed and Sue finally marrying. When Susan became pregnant with their first child the rest of the team entered the Negative Zone and battled Annihilus for the Cosmic Control Rod, which they hoped, would ensure the child's healthy birth. The mysterious Time-Twisters (who sought to destroy Earth-772's dimension to protect their own existences) brought Victor von Doom into the fray and Doom stole the Control Rod from both Annihilus and the Fantastic Five. Immortus, disguised as the Whisperer, intervened, convincing Doom to return the Rod to Reed for the good of their Universe. The remaining members of the Fantastic Five managed to return in time and Reed and Sue's first-born son was successfully delivered.[4]

Fantastic Five (Earth-772) from Original Sin Vol 1 0

Fantastic Five appeared on one of the Watcher's holographic screen

The Fantastic Five appeared on one of the Watcher's holographic windows.[5]

At some point, the entire team (minus the Invisible Woman) was murdered by Karn, who was hunting down Spider-men, women and children all across the multiverse with Earth-772's Spider-Man being one of them.[6] However, Spider-Man was later restored to life by Silk when she cut Morlun with the Totem Dagger.[7] As yet, it is unclear if the rest of the Fantastic Five were restored in the process.

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