Fantastic Four #38

(May 1965)

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Defeated by the Frightful Four! (Table of Contents: 2)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Chic Stone (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Next time you spend our dough gettin' a picture enlarged make sure it's a pic of some blonde, willya?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Frightful Four: Madam Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]; Sandman [Flint Marko]; Trapster [Peter Petruski] (first appearance as the Trapster); Wingless Wizard [Bentley Wittman]

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

The Frightful Four kidnap Sue and lure the Fantastic Four into a nuclear blast.

Reprints

• in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19101 (1969)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #101
• in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #9 (10 décembre 1970)
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #30 (March 1971)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #33 (27 Giugno 1972)
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #35 (April 1973)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #83 (May 4, 1974) [page 8 deleted]
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #37 - La bataille du Baxter Building (1985)
• 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 : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1965 (mars 2006)
• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007)
• in Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Coming of Galactus (2018)

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

Script

Stan Lee

Colors

? (panel backgrounds only)

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Fantastic 4 Fan Page

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Nick Henry, David Winiewicz, Duwanna Strubel, Stuart Engel, Charles Williams, Bruce Wildstein, Elizabeth Holden, Steve Erickson, Kathy Lucas, and Marilyn Holmes; includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist and Special Announcements Section.

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