(January 1969)
- Volume:
- 1
- Price:
- 0.12 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly except November, semi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines:
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher:
- Perfect Film & Chemical Corp.
- Brand:
- Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
- Editing:
- Stan Lee
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Silver Age U.S., then standard Modern Age U.S.
- Paper Stock:
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched (squarebound #116, 200, 358)
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
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Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- Stan Goldberg ?
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing; Crystal]; Inhumans [Black Bolt; Medusa; Karnak; Gorgon]
- Reprints:
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #3 ([Juillet 1970]) -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #80 (30 Aprile 1974) -
in Fantastiska fyran jättealbum (Red Clown, 1975 series) #1/1975 (1975) -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #78 (Februar 1977) [minor changes by H.J. Lührs] -
in Strange Spécial Origines (Editions Lug, 1981 series) #154 (5 octobre 1982) [Version expurgée/Edited version] - in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1969 ([janvier] 2010)
-
in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #3 - El Largo Camino a Casa (Junio 2013) -
in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015), #3 ([April] 2015) [cover] -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos La Prensa S.C.L., 1962 series) #109 -
in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19101
-
The Mark of -- the Madman!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 20 pages
- Script:
- Stan Lee; Jack Kirby (co-plot)
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Artie Simek
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing; Crystal]; Lockjaw; Alpha Primitives; Maximus; Inhumans [Medusa; Black Bolt; Karnak; Gorgon; Triton]; Zorr
- Synopsis:
- Crystal is taken captive by the Alpha Primitives. Reed, Johnny, and Ben follow them to the Inhumans Great Refuge, where Maximus has overthrown Black Bolt and imprisoned the Royal Family.
- Reprints:
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #3 ([Juillet 1970])
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #80 (30 Aprile 1974)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #10 (3ème trimestre 1976)
- in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #64 (July 1976) [2 pages removed; edited]
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #78 (Februar 1977)
- in Fantastic Four : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2003 series) #1969 ([janvier] 2010)
- in Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos (Panini España, 2011 series) #3 - El Largo Camino a Casa (Junio 2013)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)
- in HIP Comics (Classics/Williams, 1966 series) #19101
-
Indexer Notes
Kirby's co-plot credit is widely acknowledged by Lee and Kirby in numerous interviews. Credit here reads: "Conceived, created, and carefully crafted by: Stan (The Man) Lee and Jack (King) Kirby."
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Fantastic Four Fan Page / letters page / 2 pages
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Jack Kirby (illustrations)
- Inks:
- Joe Sinnott (illustrations)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset; Sam Rosen
- Reprints:
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Letters from Peter Marzano, David Fuchs, Walt Desmand, Steve Donaldson, H. R. Blanco Jr., Rusty Kirkland, Terry Levin, Mike Christiansen
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Fantastic Four -
1.
The Mark of -- the Madman!
Fantastic Four -
2.
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Fantastic Four Fan Page
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