Religion and Characters in
Fantastic Four: The World’s Greatest Comics Magazine! #12 (Jan. 2002):
“Victor von Doom, Emperor of Earth!”
by Erik Larsen, Eric Stephenson, Stan Lee, Ron Frenz, John Romita Sr., Dan Jurgens, Steve Rude, Jorge Lucas, Joe Sinnott, Tom Palmer, Al Milgrom, etc.

16 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	U.S. Air Force; Yancy Street Gang  West Coast Avengers; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation; Fantastic Five		5,017
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Force; Fantastic Five		4,393
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	humanist; believes in God	Avengers; Illuminati  Fantastic Five		4,661
Invisible Girl (Susan Storm Richards)	Episcopalian	Avengers; Lady Liberators		4,069
The Sub-Mariner (Namor)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Invaders; All-Winners Squad  Defenders; Avengers; The Order; Illuminati; Dark X-Men; X-Men [Atlantis]		1,864
Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom)	Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism	Fearsome Four [Latveria. Foe of: Fantastic Four (arch-enemy)]		1,176
Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)	Zenn-La religion	Heralds of Galactus; Defenders  The Order; Star Masters; Secret Defenders		826
Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff)	Inhuman religion	Inhuman Royal Family; Inhumans  Avengers [Attilan]		531
Galactus (Galan)	cosmic entity	Heralds of Galactus (leader)		537
The Watcher (Uatu)	monotheist / Watcher religion, focusing on non-interference and observation			582
Asgardians	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)			644
Heimdall	Norse/Teutonic deity	[The Royal Court of Asgard; Sentry of Asgard]		330
Fin Fang Foom (duplicate of)	Buddhist (convert)	[guardian; navigator]		63
IT, the Living Colossus (Bob O'Bryan) (duplicate of)	alien (briefly)	S.H.I.E.L.D.; Howling Commandos [statue animated by mind transferal of alien Kigor]		7
The Blip (Shzzzllzzzthzz) (duplicate of)	Blip religion	[electrical being]		6
Sporr (duplicate of)	N.A.	[Transylvania. Foe of: the professor. giant mutated amoeba]		2

A large number of artists worked on this issue: Erik Larsen, Ron Frenz, John Romita Sr., Dan Jurgens, Steve Rude, Jorge Lucas, Joe Sinnott, Tom Palmer, Al Milgrom, Bruce Timm, Scott Hanna.

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