Fantastic Four #43 [Regular Edition]

(October 1965)

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

Lo! There Shall Be an Ending! (Table of Contents: 2)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Vince Colletta (credited)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Torch! Lower your flame, you juvenile incompetent!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Frightful Four [Madam Medusa; Sandman [Flint Marko]; Trapster [Peter Petruski]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]]; Doctor Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Sgt. Donnegan

Synopsis

Reed manages to free Ben and Johnny from the Frightful Four's brainwashing and he and Sue defeat the villains.

Reprints

• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #40
• in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1902 ([1966])
• in Marvel (Editions Lug, 1970 series) #13 (15 avril 1971)
• in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #9 (December 1971) [page 10 removed]
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #38 (5 Settembre 1972)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #90 (June 22, 1974) [pages 1-10; page 4, panels 2, 3, and 5 deleted; and page 5, panels 1 and 5 deleted], #91 (June 29, 1974) [pages 11-20; page 1 of the reprint is a blow-up of page 10, panel 6 of the original publication]
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #38
which is reprinted
• in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini Comics (fr), 2003 series) #1965 (2006)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #25 ([October] 1993)
• in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #3 (April 2000) [black and white]
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #5 [Regular Edition] ([January] 2004)
• in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1965 (mars 2006)
• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2009 series) #5 (2010)
• in Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #3 - The Coming of Galactus (2018)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #3.

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Fantastic Four; Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos; Spider-Man; Thor; Journey into Mystery / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Treasure Chest of Fun (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Honor House Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Littleton Coin Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Strat-O-Matic Baseball Game / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Amazing X-Ray Vision Instantly! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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The Merry Marvel Bullpen Page / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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

Script

Stan Lee

Colors

? (panel backgrounds only)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well, it looks as though we're finally back to normal with the world's greatest adventure team.

Feature Logo

Fantastic Four Fan Page

Reprints

• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2 (2007)

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Tim McCray, Rick Paul, Shailendra Maheshwari, Tim White, Preston Sinks, Fred Lerner, Randy Risedorf, Steve Rosenfield; includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist and an membership form for the M.M.M.S. fan club.

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Hit Records / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Surplus Bargains / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)