Fantastic Four
#17
[Regular Edition]
(August 1963)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-05-09
- 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
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Silver Age U.S., then standard Modern Age U.S.
- Paper Stock
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding
- saddle-stitched (squarebound #116, 200, 358)
- Publishing Format
- was ongoing series
Issue Notes
This issue has variants.
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.
In the Clutches of Doctor Doom!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie Simek
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can America's most colorful super-combo escape from...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
- Reprints
-
in Demonen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1969 series) #8/1970 ([august] 1970) -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #27 (4 Aprile 1972) -
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #35 (June 2, 1973) [used as the first page of the reprinted story] -
in Fantastic Four (Newton Comics, 1974 series) #15 (1976) -
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 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 Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1962 series) #18 - in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #2
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Defeated by Doctor Doom!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Dick Ayers
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Artie 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 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 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 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 Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #15 - in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #2
-
- Keywords
- Daily Herald; disintegrator ray guns; electro-scanner; grappler ray; power spheres; radar; robots; ultra-heat beam
in Indexer Notes
Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group.
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Defeated by Doctor Doom!
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