- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Enslaved on the planet Kral, deep within the mysterious Skrull...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]
Fantastic Four: Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Boss Barker; Lippy Louie; Napoleon G. Robberson; Torgo
- Reprints
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #88
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #145
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #8 (Septembre 1971)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #90 (17 Settembre 1974)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #13 - Les jeux du cirque (3ème trimestre 1977)
- in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #74 (November 1977) [minus pages 3 and 14]
- in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1969 ([janvier] 2010)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #3 - El Largo Camino a Casa (Junio 2013)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2015)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #6 - At War with Atlantis (2020)
- Keywords
- Kral (Skrull planet)
This story combines elements from two episodes of Star Trek the Original Series (1966-1969): forced gladiatorial combat for the entertainment of alien masters ("The Gamesters of Triskelion", aired January 05, 1968) and imitating 1920's American gangster culture ("A Piece of the Action", aired January 12, 1968).
These episodes aired on consecutive weeks in January 1968 and, given the time of publication, it is not inconceivable that Stan Lee or Jack Kirby (or both) could have borrowed from them... not knowing that, in the near future, Star Trek would become a well-known and well-studied mainstay of American popular culture.
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan and Jack, I've heard of two left feet, but...
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Crystal; Invisible Girl]; Alicia Masters; Franklin Richards
- Reprints
Letters from: Frederick D. Forsman, Robert Ochoa, Esau M. Simmons, Howard Keltner, and Bruce Golden.
Between story pages 12 and 13.