Fantastic Four #83

(February 1969)

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Johnson Smith & Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Shall Man Survive? (Table of Contents: 2)

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

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

Sam Rosen (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It's hopeless, Johnny!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Inhumans [Black Bolt; Medusa; Karnak; Triton; Gorgon]; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Sue Richards [Invisible Girl]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Crystal]; unnamed Richards infant [Franklin Richards]; Maximus the Mad; Stallior; Aireo; Leonus; Alpha Primitives; Zorr

Synopsis

The Inhumans break free from Maximus's prison and, with the help of the Fantastic Four, restore Black Bolt to the throne.

Reprints

• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #105
• in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #4 ([Septembre 1970])
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #81 (14 Maggio 1974)
• in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #10 (3ème trimestre 1976)
• in Marvel's Greatest Comics (Marvel, 1969 series) #65 (September 1976) [edited; 2 pages removed]
• in The Fantastic Four: The Secret Story of Marvel's Cosmic Quartet (Ideals Publishing Corp., 1981 series) #[nn] (1981)
• in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #4 (2005)
• 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 The Inhumans: Beware the Inhumans (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018)
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #5 - The Name is Doom (2020)
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #79

Indexer Notes

Kirby's co-plot credit is widely acknowledged by Lee and Kirby in numerous interviews. Credit here reads: "Crafted and Choreographed by: Stan (The Man) Lee and Jack (King) Kirby."

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

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Kirby (illustrations)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

Sam Rosen; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Stan and Jack, F.F. #80 was just a stall for the...

Feature Logo

Fantastic Four Fan Page

Characters

Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Crystal]; Lockjaw

Reprints

• in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #3 ([April] 2015)

Indexer Notes

Letters from James Judge, Joel Packer, Danny English, Alan Latawiec, Don Tyler, John Rotremmo Jr, Pete Gruenwera, and Leonard Lipton; includes Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.

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