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The Fantastic Four is back in the mainstream public eye with Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four: First Steps, but they weren't the first Fantastic Four. For many, that was the heroes of 2005's Fantastic Four - and on the 20 year anniversary of that hit movie, two of its starts are reuniting at New York Comic Con 2025. Michael Chiklis (The Thing) and Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards) are coming to the biggest comic convention in North America to meet fans and take some pictures - including more than a few of each other.

Michael Chiklis will be with us at New York Comic Con on Thursday, October 9, and Friday, October 10, meeting fans and signing autographs and taking photos with you. He also loves to talk about FF, as well as The Shield, The Commish, and his other projects.

Ioan Gruffudd will be at New York Comic Con, Thursday, October 9, through Sunday, October 12, meeting fans and signing what you have, and taking photos with you - and maybe with his buddy Michael Chiklis if you book it.

Popverse will be having an exclusive pre-sale for its NYCC Superfans for Ioan Gruffudd and Michael Chiklis (and more!) beginning Friday, September 12, at 4 PM Eastern time. This'll be the first place to get Autographs and Photo Ops experiences with them. Active Popverse NYCC Superfans will be able to access the presale with a link sent to the email address they signed up with, or by logging into the patron portal.

Any spots left remaining after our voracious Popverse Superfans book their times will go on sale September 15 at 12 PM Eastern.

Your year-long Popverse NYCC Superfan membership will not only give you first dibs on these experiences, but also all the major NYCC celebrity experiences, such as this, as well as a pre-sale on NYCC 2026 tickets. In addition to that, you'll also be able to watch all the major panels from New York Comic Con 2025 we'll be filming, as well as panels from previous years from this show, Chicago's C2E2, Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con, and more. To top it all off, all Popverse members get exclusive first access to members-only interviews, features, and other articles Popverse does all year.

Get ready for New York Comic Con 2025 (and all its spooky themes!) with our guides to who's appearing in Artists' Alley and Writers Block, as well as our pick of favorite panels at the show, not to mention the best places to eat near the Javits (and IN the Javits!), the whole bathroom situation at NYCC, and a map of all the iconic comic book locations you can visit while in NYC.