Marvel Studios just shared a cool piece of concept art that gives us our clearest look yet at the MCU’s take on the iconic Baxter Building.
The image gives off a sleek, futuristic vibe, anchoring the building not just as a superhero HQ, but as a beacon of innovation. The caption reads:
“The Baxter Building, home to the Future Foundation and the Fantastic Four. The initial proposal for the headquarters included this rendering of Baxter Building Plaza, foreseeing a place where charities and world leaders could come together to uplift humanity.”
The Baxter Building originally debuted in Fantastic Four #1 back in March 1962, located at the corner of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. It was 35 stories tall, and the Fantastic Four occupied the top five.
That modest scale felt right for the early days of Marvel comics, but things changed in 1985 when John Byrne leveled the place in Fantastic Four #278. As Byrne put it: “The FF’s HQ building had long been established as 35 stories in height. Quite impressive in 1962, but not so much in 1980, when I came to the book. It didn’t seem like I could just start referring to the building as taller than all those previous stories had made it, so I decided on something a wee bit more dramatic.”
It looks like the upcoming film is borrowing a page from Byrne’s playbook.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Vanessa Kirby, and Pedro Pascal, and it hits theaters on July 25, 2025.
