Marvel ‘s Fantastic Four are taking big first steps at the box office, earning a mighty $24.4 million in previews.

The first attempt at making a film about the superheroes was an extremely low-budget affair that was shot, abandoned and mostly forgotten about in the 1990s.

This new “Fantastic Four,” coming a decade after the doomed reboot of the forgettable mid-aughts originals, throws us right into the action, essentially skipping the team’s origin story and opting ins...