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Alicia Reiss Masters is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, she First appearance in The Fantastic Four #8 (November 1962). (2025). 9781465478900, DK Publishing. ISBN 9781465478900 She is a supporting character to the the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer.
Alicia Masters is a blindness sculpture. She is able to create incredibly lifelike representations of real people by touch and memory alone; her sculptures of the Fantastic Four and other superheroes are frequently depicted. A caring, sensitive character, she has been a romantic interest, confidante, and eventual wife of The Thing, a member of the Fantastic Four who is frequently ashamed of his monstrous appearance. She has also helped explain human life and emotion to the alien Silver Surfer.
Actress Kat Green played her in the unreleased The Fantastic Four film from 1994, and then Kerry Washington portrayed her in the 2005 film Fantastic Four and the 2007 sequel .
Alicia Masters was a recurring character in early issues of Fantastic Four as the love interest of the Thing, serving as a plot device to cause him to resist changing back to a normal human form, for fear that Alicia would not love him. Fantastic Four #25 (April 1964) The physically vulnerable Masters was also frequently used as a damsel in distress.
The character plays an integral role in the story arc "The Coming of Galactus", in Fantastic Four #48–50 (March–May 1966). The Silver Surfer comes to Earth as a herald to the powerful, world-destroying being Galactus, and crashes into Alicia's apartment after fighting the Fantastic Four. Her pleading with him about the value of life convinces him to reject his master and defend Earth. (2025). 9781605490557, TwoMorrows Publishing. ISBN 9781605490557
After the Thing chooses to remain on an alien planet where he could change back to human form, Alicia falls in love with the dashing Human Torch, another member of the Fantastic Four. The Thing returns to unhappily attend their wedding. In Fantastic Four #300, Johnny Storm and Alicia marry, but the ceremony is nearly foiled by the Mad Thinker, the Wizard, and Alicia's stepfather, the Puppet Master. These three villains planned to attack the wedding, but at the last moment Puppet Master stopped them, with the (unwilling) help of Dragon Man. Fantastic Four #300 (March 1987)
After several months, the Fantastic Four discovers that Alicia was kidnapped and replaced by Lyja, a Skrull espionage agent sent to infiltrate the Fantastic Four and set them up for her handler, Paibok, to destroy them. The Fantastic Four defeats Paibok and retrieves Alicia. She was taken before Ben broke up with her, and her feelings for Ben never changed. This makes things difficult for both him and Johnny. The two of them had months to resolve things between them. Now Johnny has to come to grips with the fact that the real Alicia never loved him and that Lyja is the woman he loves. Ben has to deal with having gotten over Alicia, only to have her back and in love with him.
The press is told that Alicia and Johnny divorced. Fantastic Four #362 (March 1992) With her relationships with Ben and Johnny now complicated by Johnny's marriage to 'Lyja' and Ben's prior attempts to resolve his old feelings for her after Lyja's marriage, Alicia subsequently becomes romantically involved with the Silver Surfer and eventually leaves Earth with him, traveling through outer space at his side in an armored suit. Silver Surfer (vol. 3) #121-140 (October 1996 - June 1998) Galactus the Devourer #1-6 (September 1999–March 2000)
Alicia is frequently trusted as a babysitter for Franklin Richards, the son of Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic. During the year-long period in which the FF were missing ("Heroes Reborn"), Alicia is seen as his primary caretaker. Thunderbolts #2 (June 1997)
After the Fantastic Four disband following the collapse of the multiverse, Spider-Man purchases the Baxter Building to keep it safe until the team are ready to come back together. The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 4) #3 (January 2016) Ben initially spends time with the Guardians of the Galaxy, but eventually, after a failed attempt to find the Richards family, he proposes to Alicia just before the Richards return to Earth. Fantastic Four (vol. 6) #1 (October 2018) Fantastic Four (vol. 6) #3 (January 2019) Fantastic Four (vol. 6) #5 (March 2019)
In the aftermath of the 2020 crossover "Empyre", Ben and Alicia adopt two orphans, the Kree boy Jo-Venn and the Skrull girl N'Kala. Empyre Fallout: Fantastic Four #1 (September 2020)
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