In 1975, Marvel made a deal to adapt the early issues of Fantastic Four by Lee and Kirby into a radio show. I don't know who did the script adaptations but the cast consisted of Bob Maxwell as Mr. Fantastic, Cynthia Adler as The Invisible Girl, Jim Pappas as The Thing, Bill Murray as The Human Torch and Jerry Terheyden as Doctor Doom. Mr. Terheyden also played other villains as did, apparently, other actors. And yes, that Bill Murray was the Bill Murray we all know from Saturday Night Live and so many movies.
Stan Lee functioned as narrator and there were thirteen episodes released. Many years ago, I obtained them all on one LP record plus a couple of tape cassettes and I must admit: I found the first one so tedious and overacted that I never made it to the second one. In fact, I'm not even sure I made it all the way through Episode #1. See if you can…
If you love it and want to hear 'em all, you can find the first ten episodes at this link and the last three at this link. Let me know if any of them get any better than that first one.