Fantastic Four
#79
(October 1968)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly except November, semi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1968-07-16
- 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 (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This Monster Forever!
The Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Script
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Thing [Ben Grimm]
- Reprints
-
in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #89 -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1962 series) #106 (31 de Julio de 1969) -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #2 ([Juin 1970]) -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #76 (5 Marzo 1974) -
in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #61 (January 1976) which is reprinted - in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015) [1/4 page]
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #4 (2005)
- in Stan Lee Meets The Thing (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006)
- in Stan Lee Meets (Marvel, 2007 series) ([March] 2007)
-
in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1968 (juin 2009) -
in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - A Través del Universo (Septiembre 2012) - in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #5 - The Name is Doom (2020)
-
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #1989 -
in Fantastiska fyran (Williams Förlags AB, 1967 series) #20 - in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #75
-
A Monster Forever?
The Fantastic Four / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited as Stan (the Man) Lee); Jack Kirby (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited as Jack (King) Kirby)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How's it feel to be Ben Grimm again, big buddy?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Thing [Ben Grimm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Richards]]; Crystal; O'Hoolihan; Alicia Masters; a Mad Thinker Android
- Synopsis
- Ben and Alicia are attacked by a Mad Thinker android. Reed learns of Sue's medical problems but does not tell her.
- Reprints
- in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #89
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #2 ([Juin 1970])
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #76 (5 Marzo 1974)
- in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #61 (January 1976) [edited; 2 pages removed]
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #9 (1er trimestre 1976)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #4 (2005)
- in Stan Lee Meets The Thing (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006)
- in Stan Lee Meets (Marvel, 2007 series) ([March] 2007)
- in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1968 (juin 2009)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #2 - A Través del Universo (Septiembre 2012)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)
- in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #5 - The Name is Doom (2020)
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #75
-
Indexer Notes
Kirby's co-plot credit is widely acknowledged by Lee and Kirby in numerous interviews. Credit here reads: "Mighty Marvel's Most Masterful Masters of Modern-Day Mythology, Stan (The Man) Lee and Jack (King) Kirby Have Definitely Done it Again!"
Items of Incredible Import to Illuminate Your Interest, Invigorate Your Imagination, and Intoxicate Your Id!
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan, I am a fairly recent, yet avid, fan of your comics.
- Characters
- Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
- Reprints
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Bernard Cicirello, S. L. Cox, Franklin Roy, Randy Rasmussen, George and Linda Pelley, James Ritchie, and Perry Turner.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
This Monster Forever!
The Fantastic Four -
1.
A Monster Forever?
The Fantastic Four -
2.
Items of Incredible Import to Illuminate Your Interest, Invigorate Your Imagination, and Intoxicate Your Id!
Marvel Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
["Dear Stan, I am a fairly recent, yet avid, fan of your comics."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page
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