Wow, this is amazing. A couple weeks ago I saw that Criterion had released The Ice Storm on blu ray so I ordered it and watched it for the first time since it came out. It takes place in 1973 and throughout it, the Tobey Maguire character is reading the latest issue of The Fantastic Four. Every once in a while they show a few panels on screen, and it's always stuff about Franklin Richards being zapped by the villain and getting these powers, and what ends up happening to him, what his own father ends up doing to him. I really wanted to read the whole issue, so I went to ebay and grabbed one for about $5. Read it the other day, and the issue ends with Franklin basically being turned into a vegetable. The last panel said that was the end of the storyline and that a brand new storyline would begin next issue. I totally wondered what ended up happening to Franklin after that, and thought "Eh hopefully some day I'll remember to look that up."
That was like two days ago. Now I wander in here and stumble across this thread. Life is neat sometimes!