- Script
- Stan Lee (credited); Jack Kirby (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thank heaven we're safely back in our own...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Silver Surfer; Inhumans [Crystal; Karnak; Black Bolt; Medusa; Gorgon; Triton; Lockjaw]; Wyatt Wingfoot; Sam Thorpe
- Synopsis
- The Sandman attacks the Fantastic Four. During the battle, Reed is pulled into the Negative Zone and feared dead.
- Reprints
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1941 (1968) -
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #41 -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #58 (26 Giugno 1973) -
in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #44 (September 1973) -
in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #5 (4e trimestre 1974) -
in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #129 (March 22, 1975) [pages 1-9], #130 (March 29, 1975) [pages 10-20; page 13 deleted] -
in Fantastic Four Pocket Book (Marvel UK, 1980 series) #9 (1980) [black & white] -
in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #43 (1987) -
in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #3 (April 2000) -
in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1967 (2008) -
in Fantastic Four Adventures (Panini UK, 2010 series) #7 (August 2010) -
in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #1 [3] - La Edad Dorada (Septiembre 2011) -
in Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans (Marvel, 2013 series) ([October] 2013) [Pages 12-13] -
in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015) -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #57
Kirby's co-plot credit is widely acknowledged by Lee and Kirby in numerous interviews. Here the credit reads "Extravagantly executed with ebullient erudition by: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby."
Stan Goldberg credit based on a note on one of the original artboards (seen here: http://www.tcj.com/im-gonna-open-sealed-door-to-negative-zone/ ) as seen by Trevor Ashfield.
- Script
- Stan Lee ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
- Characters
- The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Silver Surfer
- Reprints
Letters from Bill Homah, Nancy Newton, Wayne Witkowski, Alan Bentzel, Mark Thomas, Mike Johnson, Mike Kelly, and Grant Canfield; includes M.M.M.S. membership form.