Fantastic Four #31 [British]

(October 1964)

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Niresk Fishing Outfits / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Mad Menace of the Macabre Mole Man! (Table of Contents: 2)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby

Inks

Chic Stone (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)

Job Number

X-764

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hey!! Who's the wise guy??

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Mole Man (villain); Dr. Franklin Storm (introduction); Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Moloids; the Avengers [Thor [Don Blake]; Giant Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]]

Synopsis

Mole Man lowers blocks of New York City into his realm. Sue is injured in the ensuing battle and can only be saved by a surgery performed by her escaped felon father.

Reprints

• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #28
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #2
• in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #48 (1964)
• in The Fantastic Four (Lancer Books, 1966 series) #72-111 (1966)
• in Pow! and Wham! (IPC, 1968 series) #66 (20 April 1968)
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #23 (October 1969)
• in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #6 (10 septembre 1970) [reworked]
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #29 (December 1970)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #25 (7 Marzo 1972)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #67 (January 12, 1974) [pages 9-10 deleted], #68 (January 19, 1974) [pages 14-21; page 1 of the reprint is a paste-up of panels 6 and 7 of page 13 of the original story]
• in De Fantastiske Fire [Fantastiske Fire superseriepocket] (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #1 (1979)
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #33 - L'enfant et les sortilèges (2e trimestre 1984)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #21 ([November] 1992)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 [Regular Edition] ([November] 2003)
• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007)
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - The Master Plan of Doctor Doom (2017)

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

4 More Marvel Masterpieces! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Yubiwaza System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Strat-O-Matic Baseball Game / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Sell Grit (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Genuine Shark’s Tooth (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Shark's Tooth / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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100 Magnets; Scott-Mitchell Toys / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Littleton Coins / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Fantastic Four; Spider-Man; Marvel Tales / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Stamps; Shop by Mail] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Fantastic 4 Fan Page

Reprints

• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mike Friedrich (future comics writer), David Hill, John Johnson, David Grace, Patrick Scarfo, Spence Allen, Chuck Boehnaler, Tom Jones, David Catena, Mike Raub, Charles Smith, and Marlin Grenn; includes Special Announcements Section.

My Secret New Dynaflex Method (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Commercial Trades Institute Courses / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Honor House Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)