The Fantastic Four
Season 1, Episode 2 (14 Oct. 1978): “The Menace of Magneto”
by Stan Lee

The Fantastic Four - Season 1, Episode 2

Title: “The Menace of Magneto”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 14 Oct. 1978

Publisher: DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Written by: Stan Lee

7 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
The Thing (Ben Grimm)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Invisible Girl (Susan Storm Richards)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
H.E.R.B.I.E.	N.A.	Fantastic Five (ally)		102
Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr)	Jewish; Gypsy/Roma	Brotherhood of Mutants; Genoshan Excalibur...  The Acolytes; The Twelve; X-Men		916
bank robbers		[occupation]	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises , etc.	1
The Fantastic Four		[1st app: The Fantastic Four (vol. 1) #1 (Nov. 1961)]		100

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