Fantastic Four
#159
(June 1975)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-03-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #116.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Havoc in the Hidden Land!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed as
BUCKLER) - Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Sinnott)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Gorgon; Karnak; Triton - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #169 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #48 (Mai 1975) -
in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #4/1979 ([april] 1979) [edited] -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #66 (5 juillet 1983) which is reprinted - in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #163 (5 juillet 1983) [N&B]
-
in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - The Crusader Syndrome (2023)
-
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Havoc in the Hidden Land!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (credited); John Romita (sourced) (page 16); John Romita (see notes)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited); Mike Esposito (see notes)
- Colors
- Janice Cohen (credited)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited) (page 1-15, 17-18); Denise Wohl ? (page 16)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Midnight in Manhattan: All the lonely people...
- Feature Logo
Stan Lee Presents: The Fantastic Four!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (officially rejoins the team); Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon] (leaves the team); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Gorgon; Karnak; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Triton
Phineas (Earth-6212); Valeria (Earth-6212); Xemu (Earth-6212) (villain) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The team returns to Attilan with Quicksilver to confront Xemu's fifth dimension invasion. One by one, the Inhuman royal family escape their captors and regroup to stop Xemu from instigating an atomic war between China and the US.
- Reprints
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #48 (Mai 1975)
-
in The Complete Fantastic Four (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #26 (March 22, 1978) -
in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978) - in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978) [minus page 9]
- in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #66 (5 juillet 1983)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - The Crusader Syndrome (2023)
-
- Keywords
- Communist China; Himalayas
Indexer Notes
Panels 3-9 on page 16 and panels 1 and 2 on page 17 are drawn by John Romita and Mike Esposito. This story was originally prepared for Giant-Size Fantastic Four but when the title was cancelled it was scheduled for the monthly title. This is likely why additional art/panels were added. Info per Nick Caputo, September 2023.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler ? (Marvel Value Stamp)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott ? (Marvel Value Stamp)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
- Characters
- Dr. Doom
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Desnek Rotifer, Vincent Van Crouch, and J. Rosler; with explanation therein of Stan Lee's ban on usage of the Silver Surfer; Marvel Value Stamp #84 (Dr. Doom).
A Cacophonous Collection of Captivating Capsule Comments Calculated to Corral Your Consciousness!
Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Havoc in the Hidden Land!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Havoc in the Hidden Land!
Fantastic Four -
2.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page -
3.
A Cacophonous Collection of Captivating Capsule Comments Calculated to Corral Your Consciousness!
Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox -
4.
The Trap
Hostess Fruit Pies; Spider-Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
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