Fantastic Four #17 [Regular Edition]

(August 1963)

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Christy Trades School / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Defeated by Doctor Doom! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 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-315

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Happy landings, Ant-Man!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (villain); Alicia Masters; Ant-Man [Hank Pym] (cameo); Princess Pearla (cameo); President John F. Kennedy (cameo, partially hidden); Nikita Khrushchev (cameo)

Synopsis

Back from the Micro-world, Doctor Doom attacks the Fantastic Four once more by kidnapping Alicia.

Reprints

• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #15
• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #12 (December 1967)
• in Fantask (Editions Lug, 1969 series) #7 (15 août 1969)
• in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1969 series) #8/1970 ([august] 1970)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #12 (7 Settembre 1971)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #34 (May 26, 1973) [pages 1-12, panel 8 of page 11 altered from portraying John Kennedy to portraying Richard Nixon, panel 4 of page 12 altered to remove reference to the Iron Curtain and to redraw Nikita Khrushchev as a generic dictator, 7 of page 12 deleted and replaced with new panel ], #35 (June 2, 1973) [pages 12-22]
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #26 (4ème trimestre 1981)
• in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #10 (September 1986) [excerpt]
which is reprinted
• in Marvel Saga (SatellitFörlaget, 1988 series) #10
• in Essential Marvel Saga (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• 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 Coleção Clássica Marvel (Panini Brasil, 2021 series) #23 - Quarteto Fantástico 4 (fevereiro 2022)

Keywords

Daily Herald; disintegrator ray guns; electro-scanner; grappler ray; power spheres; radar; robots; ultra-heat beam

Indexer Notes

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

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Palmer-Jones Publishers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

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Best Values Co. Catalog / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Mr. Victor Mason / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Boys 12 or Older Make $1 to $5 in Your Spare Time (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Grit / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Hypno-Coin (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Hypnotic Aids Supply Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Stamps; Shop by Mail] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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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)

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Stephens Credit Sales / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Boys! Men! My Secret New Dynaflex Method (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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

[2 Complete Fishing Outfits] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Niresk Industries, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

He's Looking for People Who Like to Draw (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Famous Artists Schools / advertisement / 1 page (report information)