([December] 1965)
Marvel,
1965 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- On-sale Date
- 1965-10-05
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Animated Timely Features Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Publication date based on article within regular feature "Marvel Bullpen Bulletins!" as printed in The Avengers #23 (December 1965).
[no title indexed]
Ant-Man; Fantastic Four; Spider-Man; Tales of Asgard / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (Fantastic Four, Tales to Astonish, and Journey into Mystery images); Steve Ditko (Amazing Spider-Man image)
- Inks
- George Klein (Fantastic Four image); Steve Ditko (Amazing Spider-Man image); Dick Ayers (Tales to Astonish); George Roussos (Journey into Mystery image)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (and logo); Artie Simek
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky]; Odin
Indexer Notes
Contains cover reproductions, with some modifications, from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 Series) #2, The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 Series) #3, and Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 Series) #36. Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 Series) #97 used as a background for an image from the Tales of Asgard story, page 5, panel 2.
A Message From Your Bullpen!
table of contents / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko
- Inks
- Sol Brodsky; Dick Ayers; George Roussos; Steve Ditko
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside from cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by Marie Severin. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Marie Severin Stan Goldberg and Flo Steinberg.
The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space! [Part 1]
Fantastic Four / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (signed as
Stan Lee [early- to mid-career]) - Pencils
- Jack Kirby (signed as
J. KIRBY) - Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Reprints
-
from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (January 1962)
-
- Keywords
- Skrulls
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!] Part 2: Prisoner of the Skrulls
Fantastic Four / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Synopsis
- The real FF is inprisoned by the government for their criminal acts. They escape and decide to flush out the imitating Skrulls.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (January 1962)
-
- Keywords
- Skrulls
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 3] The Fantastic Four Fight Back!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Synopsis
- The FF infiltrate the Skrull mothership and pose as the Skrull spies. Mr. Fantastic uses clippings from Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery to trick the Skrulls into thinking that the Earth forces are too strong to attack.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (January 1962)
-
- Keywords
- Skrulls
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 4] The Fantastic Four... Captured!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- George Klein
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Synopsis
- The four Skrull spies are captured, forced to take on the form of cows and then hypnotized to forget all of their former lives.
- Reprints
- from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #2 (January 1962)
-
- Keywords
- Skrulls
The Challenge of Comrade X!
Ant-Man / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Terry Szenics
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Job Number
- V-858
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Nina Vladimirovna Tsiolkovsky] (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Ant-Man is hunted by a Soviet agent sent to capture him, but a beautiful stranger warns him of the spy's whereabouts. Ant-Man realizes that the woman is really the spy and defeats her.
- Reprints
- from Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #36 (October 1962)
-
Tales of... ...Asgard! Home of the Mighty Norse Gods
Tales of Asgard / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (credited as G. Bell)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Odin (origin); Surtur (introduction); Ymir (introduction, origin); Buri (introduction, origin, cameo); Borr (introduction, origin, cameo); Audhumbla (called "Magic Cow"); Vili (unnamed, origin, cameo); Vé (unnamed, origin, cameo); Bestla (unnamed, cameo)
- Synopsis
- Story about how Odin and his brothers protected the Earth while waiting for the coming of man.
- Reprints
- from Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series) #97 (October 1963)
-
Spider-Man versus Doctor Octopus
Spider-Man / comic story / 21 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- John Duffy (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Job Number
- X-219
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; May Parker; Flash Thompson; Liz Allan; J Jonah Jameson; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius] (introduction; origin)
- Reprints
- from The Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel, 1963 series) #3 (July 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
pg. 8 - Doc Ock calls Spider-Man "Super-Man"
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Ant-Man; Fantastic Four; Spider-Man; Tales of Asgard -
1.
A Message From Your Bullpen!
-
2.
The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space! [Part 1]
Fantastic Four -
3.
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!] Part 2: Prisoner of the Skrulls
Fantastic Four -
4.
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 3] The Fantastic Four Fight Back!
Fantastic Four -
5.
[The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!, Part 4] The Fantastic Four... Captured!
Fantastic Four -
6.
The Challenge of Comrade X!
Ant-Man -
7.
Tales of... ...Asgard! Home of the Mighty Norse Gods
Tales of Asgard -
8.
Spider-Man versus Doctor Octopus
Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Steve Dasinger
- Gregory Fischer
- Ralf Haring
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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