GCD :: Issue :: Fantastic Four #15 [Regular Edition]

Volume: 1
Price: 0.12 USD
Pages: 36
Indicia Frequency: monthly
On-sale Date: 1963-03-12
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Brand: Marvel Comics Group [under character box]

Editing: Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.
This issue has variants:

Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #15 [British]

Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script: Stan Lee
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Dick Ayers
Colors: Stan Goldberg
Letters: Artie Simek

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Let none of the Fantastic Four leave alive!!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; The Mad Thinker; The Thinker's Awesome Android

Reprints

in Fantastic Four (Newton Comics, 1974 series) #13
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #13
in I Fantastici Quattro Gigante (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #7
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1962 series) #15 (Noviembre 1963)
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) #31 (May 5, 1973) [used as page 1 of the reprinted story]
in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 ([October] 1988)
in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #1 (October 1998) [black and white]
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 (September 2014)
in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Génesis (Junio 2016)
in The A-Z of Marvel Monsters (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017)
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)

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American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

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.

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