Fantastic Four
#23
[Regular Edition]
(February 1964)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1963-11-12
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.; The Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn.
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1963 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!
The Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]
- Reprints
-
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1962 series) #30 [recolored] -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #20 -
in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #17 (October 1968) which is reprinted - in The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus (Marvel, 2008 series) #1 (2008) [1/4 page]
- in Doctor Strange Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 (2016) [1/4 page]
-
in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #3 (10 juin 1970) [Remaniée et recolorée [Reworked and recolored]] which is reprinted - in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #2 (10 mai 1970)
- in Strange (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #6 (5 juin 1970)
-
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #18 (30 Novembre 1971) -
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #52 (September 29, 1973) [Cover used as new bridging splash page.] - in Los Cuatro Fantásticos (Novedades, 1980 series) #21 (1o. de septiembre de 1980)
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #13 ([September] 1990)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #2 (October 1999) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #3 [Regular Edition] ([September] 2003)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #3 (2010)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #23 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/21/w200/21889.jpg?5670607473697097069)
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The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!
The Fantastic Four / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (credited as George Bell)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited as S. Rosen)
- Job Number
- X-547
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Can't I step out of the room for a minute without something going wrong?!!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Yogi Dakor (villain, introduction); Bull Brogin (villain, introduction); "Handsome Harry" Phillips (villain, introduction); Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom] (villain)
- Synopsis
- Doctor Doom recruits three criminals to help him destroy the Fantastic Four.
- Reprints
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #2
-
in Fantastic Four (Yaffa / Page, 1981 series) #1 - in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #20
- in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1962 series) #30
- in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #17 (October 1968)
- in The Fantastic Four Comic Annual (World Distributors, 1969 series) #[nn] (1969)
- in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #3 (10 juin 1970) [reworked]
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #18 (30 Novembre 1971)
- in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #52 (September 29, 1973) [Pages 14 to 23 only.], #51 (September 29, 1973) [Pages 1 to 13 only.]
- in Marvel Treasury Edition (Marvel, 1974 series) #11 (1976)
-
in De Fantastiske Fire [Fantastiske Fire superseriepocket] (Atlantic Forlag, 1979 series) #1 (1979) [minus 1 page] - in Los Cuatro Fantásticos (Novedades, 1980 series) #21 (1o. de septiembre de 1980)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #30 (2ème trimestre 1983)
- in The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (Marvel, 1985 series) #12 (November 1986) which is reprinted
- in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #13 ([September] 1990)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #2 (October 1999) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #3 [Regular Edition] ([September] 2003)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #3 (2010)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 - The Master Plan of Doctor Doom
-
Indexer Notes
Job number revealed on original art. Info per Nick Caputo, November 2020.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Inks
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic 4 Fan Page
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Includes Special Announcements Section.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!
The Fantastic Four -
1.
["You've heard about it! You've read about it!"]
Niresk Industries, Inc. -
2.
The Master Plan of Doctor Doom!
The Fantastic Four -
3.
["An amazing invention - "Magic Art Reproducer" draw any person in one minute!"]
-
4.
["You’ll have fun & thrills as this 7 foot giant zooms 500 ft. in 3 minutes!"]
Grayson Products’ Giant Kite -
5.
Treasure Chest of Fun
Honor House Products -
6.
Hypno-Coin
Hypnotic Aids Supply Co. -
7.
["Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!"]
Best Values Co. Catalog -
8.
["Record Riot 102 smash songs $3.49"]
Hit Records -
9.
Sell Grit
Grit -
10.
[Stamps; Shop by Mail]
-
11.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page -
12.
["A lifetime of fun, money, and friends - from amateur magic!"]
-
13.
My Secret New Dynaflex Method
-
14.
["Learn radio-television electronics by practicing at home in your spare time"]
-
15.
["Give me just one evening and I'll teach you to hypnotize easily!"]
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- David Bruce
- Ruben Cortes
- Del Gruber
- Jim Van Dore
- Per Sandell
- Steve Coates
- Pierre Freyssonnet
- Gregory Fischer
- Jim Stangas
- Steve Dasinger
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