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A mailman for a small Midwestern town, Willie Lumpkin always dreamed of working for the U.S. Postal Service in a major metropolitan area. When his long-time girlfriend, Lila Brown, spurned him for the affections of his best friend, Charlie Boomer, Willie felt there was nothing left to stop him from pursuing his dream.

Willie moved to New York City where he maintained a steady mail route which included the Baxter Building. He worked the same standard beat for many years before the Fantastic Four moved to the top five floors of the complex. His life had become dreary and monotonous up until this point. The Fantastic Four's reputation as super heroic adventurers had preceded them, and Willie developed a good realtion with them. Once, when Willie met Reed Richards, leader of the Fantastic Four, he half-jokingly petitioned for membership on the grounds that he had the ability to wiggle his ears. Reed responded with equal humor and told Willie he would keep him in mind.^[1]

Although he was never invited to become a member, Willie has played unwitting roles in several of the Fantastic Four's adventures. Once he rang a certain bell in the Baxter Building's lobby which activated a fail-safe circuit breaker. This act allowed the Fantastic Four to escape the captivity of the Mad Thinker^[2]. Another time he spent Christmas eve locked in a reinforced closet while the Fantastic Four battled the Super-Skrull. Willie also accidentally activated Doctor Doom's time machine under the direction of the temporal super-villain called Tempus. Willie traveled backward to another dimension and began to play havoc with that dimension's space-time continuum. The Fantastic Four rescued him and the Watcher erased the events from his memory. ^[3]

Willie was also once impersonated by a Skrull who wanted to gain access to the Baxter Building.

Willie semi-retired, but still worked as a mailman on a part-time basis. He refused to enter full-retirement because he felt there were still many adventures to be had with the Fantastic Four. His nephew, Freddie, felt that Willie was too old to be living alone in Manhattan and wished to set him up in a nursing home. Willie's response to this decision remains to be seen.

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Abilities

Willie Lumpkin can wiggle his ears.

Strength level

Willie Lumpkin possesses the normal human strength level of a man his age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

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Willie Lumpkin was played by Marvel legend Stan Lee in the 2005 movie, Fantastic Four.
Willie Lumpkin was first created by Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo for a newspaper strip, Willie Lumpkin, in 1960, as a fairly young man delivering the mail in Glenville, Nebraska. He was later made part of the Marvel Universe in Fantastic Four #11, and his backstory has since been elaborated on to include his newspaper appearances. They are not listed as his first appearance on this wiki as they were not originally published by Marvel.

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Fantastic Four

Members	Mister Fantastic • Invisible Woman • Human Torch • Thing
Supporting	Agatha Harkness • Willie Lumpkin • Lyja • Alicia Masters • Nathaniel Richards • Sharon Ventura • Silver Surfer • Frankie Raye • Franklin Storm • Uatu • Wyatt Wingfoot • Yancy Street Gang
Future Foundation	Ahura • Bentley Thirty-Two • Franklin Richards • Valeria Richards • Leech • Artie Maddicks • Onome • Alex Power • Moloids (Korr • Mik • Tong • Turg) • Uhari (Vil • Wu)
Inhumans	Black Bolt • Crystal • Medusa • Lockjaw • Karnak • Gorgon • Triton • Universal Inhumans • Light Brigade
Enemies	Awesome Android • Annihilus • Blastaar • Doctor Doom • Dragon Man • Diablo • Ego the Living Planet • Frightful Four • Galactus • Giganto • Impossible Man • Kang the Conqueror • Klaw • Kree • Kurrgo • Lucia von Bardas • Mad Thinker • Maximus • Mole Man • Molecule Man • Psycho-Man • Puppet Master • Rama-Tut • Red Ghost • Ronan the Accuser • Salem's Seven • Skrulls • Super-Skrull • Super-Apes • Terminus • Terrax • Trapster • Kristoff Vernard • Wizard
Items	Doombots • Fantasti-Car • Unstable Molecules • H.E.R.B.I.E. • Roberta • Vehicles of the Fantastic Four • Cosmic Control Rod • Paste-Gun
Locations	Attilan • Atlantis • Baxter Building • Four Freedoms Plaza • Blue Area of the Moon • Castle Doom • Microverse • Latveria • Latverian Embassy • Negative Zone • Microverse • Subterranea
Movies	Fantastic Four (1994 film) • Fantastic Four (2005 film) • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Television	Fantastic Four (1967 animated series) • Fantastic Four (1978 animated series) • The Thing (animated series) • Fantastic Four (1994 animated series) • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
Video games	Questprobe: The Human Torch & The Thing • Fantastic Four (1997 video game) • Fantastic Four (2005 video game) • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (video game)
Creators	Stan Lee • Jack Kirby
Miscellaneous	Publication History • Recommended Reading
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