Fantastic Four #20 [Regular Edition]

(November 1963)

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

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

The Mysterious Molecule Man! (Table of Contents: 2)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited); Steve Ditko (see notes)

Inks

Dick Ayers (credited); Steve Ditko (see notes)

Colors

Stan Goldberg

Letters

Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)

Job Number

X-419

First Line of Dialogue or Text

What's going on, Sue?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; The Molecule Man (introduction, origin); The Watcher [Uatu]; The Yancy Street Gang; Alicia Masters

Synopsis

The Watcher asks the Fantastic Four to stop a new menace who could destroy the whole universe: the Molecule Man.

Reprints

• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #18
• in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #14 (April 1968)
• in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #2 (10 mai 1970) [reworked]
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #16 (2 Novembre 1971)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #43 (July 28, 1973) [pages 1-11], #44 (August 4, 1973) [pages 12-22]
• in Fantastiske Fire album (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #1 (1979)
• in Fantastiska fyran album (Superseriealbum) (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1979 series) #1 (1979)
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #1
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #28 (3ème 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 Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 - Génesis (Junio 2016)
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - The Master Plan of Doctor Doom (2017)
• in True Believers: Fantastic Four - Molecule Man (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 (February 2019)
• in Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2021 series) #2 - The Micro-World of Doctor Doom (2021)

Keywords

Acme Atomics Corp.; ephemeral sphere; Manhattan; meteor; projecto-image

Indexer Notes

The third panel on page 17 was redrawn by Steve Ditko. Ditko info by Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 (Per Sandell ed.)

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

Script

Stan Lee

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan and Jack, Reading your mags...

Feature Logo

Fantastic 4 Fan Page

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from James Maupin; Anonymous; Wayne Shepard; Richard Cohen; Mark Gruenwald (as Fantastic Four Fan Club secretary); Dana Riell; Karl Spence; John Furek; Don Keefer; Kevin Shields; and George R. Martin.

Per the author of the fantasy series Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, his fan letter here was his first published work (as per interview given on 14 July 2012 on the G4 cable network show, Comic-Con Live),

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