- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Job Number
- X-191
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The android... neither animal, nor vegetable, nor mineral!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; The Mad Thinker (introduction); The Thinker's Awesome Android (origin); Alicia Masters; Cousin Bones (introduction); Fatal Finnegan (introduction); Willie Lumpkin; Peggy; Shorty
- Synopsis
- The Mad Thinker has summoned gang leaders to try to become the king of New-York. To achieve his goal, he must defeat the Fantastic Four. So he makes sure they are all offered interesting opportunities. While they disband, the Thinker uses the Baxter Building to build his Awesome Android.
- Reprints
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #13
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #10 (August 1967)
- in Fantask (Editions Lug, 1969 series) #6 (15 juillet 1969)
- in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1969 series) #2/1970 ([februar] 1970)
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #11 (24 Agosto 1971)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #30 (April 28, 1973) [pages 1-10], #31 (May 5, 1973) [pages 11-20]
- in Giant-Size Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (May 1975)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #27 - Le Pharaon du futur (2e trimestre 1982)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 ([October] 1988)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #1 (October 1998) [black and white]
- in Biblioteca Marvel: Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1999 series) #03 (Diciembre 1999)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #2 [Regular Edition] ([July] 2003)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 - The World's Greatest Comic Magazine (2014)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Génesis (Junio 2016)
- in True Believers: Fantastic Four - Mad Thinker & Awesome Android (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (February 2019)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2021 series) #2 - The Micro-World of Doctor Doom (2021)
- in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #7 - Los 4 Fantásticos 3 ([Febrero 2023])
- in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #7 - Fantastic Four 3 (1963) ([November] 2023)
- Keywords
- Central Park; circus; computers; Fifth Avenue; meteor; vibra-guns; wrestling; Yancy Street
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as )
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as Jack)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]
- Reprints
- in Fantastic! (IPC, 1967 series) #15 (27 May 1967)
- in Fantask (Editions Lug, 1969 series) #7 (15 août 1969)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #41 (July 14, 1973)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #2 - La Saga du Surfer d'Argent (4e trimestre 1973)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
- in Hasbro / Secret Wars (Marvel, 2009 series) #12 (October 2009)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #1 - The World's Greatest Comic Magazine (2014)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Génesis (Junio 2016)
- in True Believers: Fantastic Four - Mad Thinker & Awesome Android (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (February 2019)
- in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2021 series) #2 - The Micro-World of Doctor Doom (2021)
- in Biblioteca Marvel (Panini España, 2022 series) #7 - Los 4 Fantásticos 3 ([Febrero 2023])
- in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #7 - Fantastic Four 3 (1963) ([November] 2023)
Between story pages 17 and 18.
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic 4 Fan Page
- Reprints
Letters page replies by Stan Lee. Includes a letter from Roy Thomas.