Fantastic Four #15 [Regular Edition]

(June 1963)

[All-Male He-Man] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

The Fantastic Four Battle... the Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android! (Table of Contents: 2)

The 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.

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 (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 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 True Believers: Fantastic Four - Mad Thinker & Awesome Android (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (February 2019)

Keywords

Central Park; circus; computers; Fifth Avenue; meteor; vibra-guns; wrestling; Yancy Street

Indexer Notes

Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.

Action in the Fantastic Four Style (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Don't Miss the Return of Dr. Doom (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Padell Book Co. Books / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[In the next sensational issue of Fantastic Four...] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

The Fantastic Four / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Fantastic Four Fan Clubs (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

The Fantastic Four / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Commercial Trades Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Fantastic Four Pin-Up Page (Table of Contents: 10)

The Fantastic Four / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (signed as Stan)

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 (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 (September 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)

Indexer Notes

Between story pages 17 and 18.

[Stamps; Shop by Mail] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

advertisement / 2 pages (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script

Stan Lee

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Fantastic 4 Fan Page

Reprints

• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)

Indexer Notes

Letters page replies by Stan Lee. Includes a letter from Roy Thomas.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Live Squirrel Monkey / advertisement / 0.16 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Florida Sea Horse Co. / advertisement / 0.17 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Famous Dance Course / advertisement / 0.17 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Grit / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Mike Marvel System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

25-volume self-teaching Encyclopedia / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)