- Script
- Stan Lee (credited); Jack Kirby (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Maybe we can't help Reed, but we can still...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Gorgon; Karnak; Lockjaw; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]; Triton
Blastaar (first appearance); Sandman [Flint Marko]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- While trapped in the Negative Zone, Reed battles Blastaar.
- Reprints
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #58
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1945 (1968)
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #45
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #59 (10 Luglio 1973)
- in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #45 (October 1973)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #5 - Voyage cosmique (4e trimestre 1974)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #131 (April 5, 1975) [pages 1-11], #132 (April 12, 1975) [pages 8-20; pages 9-11 and 14 deleted]
- in Fantastic Four Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #9 (1980) [black & white. Kirby’ s double-page collage on pages 4-5 is omitted bringing the page count down to 18.
] - in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #43 - Voyage cosmique (1987)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #3 (April 2000) [black and white]
- in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1967 (2008)
- in Fantastic Four Adventures (Panini UK, 2010 series) #8 (September 2010)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 [3] - La Edad Dorada (Septiembre 2011)
- in Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 (2015)
- in True Believers: Fantastic Four - Blastaar (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (February 2019)
Kirby's co-plot credit is widely acknowledged by Lee and Kirby in numerous interviews. Here the credit reads "Contrived and crafted by the curiously creative and catastrophically compelling collaboration of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby." Goldberg coloring credit per Nick Caputo, as seen on production notes of stat.
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan and Jack, Bashful blue-eyed Benjy, ol' Greenskin...
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
- Characters
- Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]
- Reprints
Letters from: Gary Marco, Chris Barth, Brian Clift, Franklin Roy, Jim Bloodsworth, Charles Hutler, Paul Thiel, and Peter von Sholly; M.M.M.S. membership form.