Fantastic Four
#118
(January 1972)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-10-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Management Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Printer
- Printed in the U.S.A. by World Color Press, Inc., Sparta, Illinois 62286
- Editing
- Stan Lee (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1972 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Thunder in the Ruins
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- No! You can't have turned against us!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Lockjaw - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1962 series) #146 -
in De Vier Verdedigers Classics (Classics/Williams, 1971 series) #65 -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116 (16 Settembre 1975) -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #115 (1978) -
in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #6 (2007) [black and white] - in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12 [Regular Edition] ([February] 2010)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2021)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1961 series) #118 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1066/w100/1066973.jpg?-922706480571885560)
Thunder in the Ruins!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- Job Number
- 796Z
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A search for the girl he loves brought the...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff] (also impersonating Ixchel); Diablo [Esteban Corazón de Ablo] (villain); Lockjaw; Carlos; General Robles - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Fantastic Four travel to Terra Verde to rescue Crystal from the mind control of Diablo.
- Reprints
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116 (16 Settembre 1975)
-
in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #18 (February 9, 1977) [pages 1-11, black and white], #19 (February 16, 1977) [pages 12-15, plus new splash, black and white] - in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #115 (1978)
-
in Atlantic special (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #10 (1979) -
in Atlantic Special [Atlantic Spesial] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #10 (1979) [minus page 1] -
in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #19 - Les sortilèges de Diablo (3ème trimestre 1979) - in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #6 (2007) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12 [Regular Edition] ([February] 2010)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2021)
-
What Mad World?
Fantastic Four / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Archie Goodwin (credited)
- Pencils
- John Buscema (credited)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sam Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Explore an instant in time.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four (mainstream): Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (mainstream); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (mainstream); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (mainstream)
Lockjaw (mainstream); alternate universe Ben Grimm [Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch]; alternate universe Reed Richards [the Thing]; alternate universe Sue Grimm - Universe
- Marvel : Earth-A - Earth-721
- Synopsis
- Lockjaw transports the Thing to an alternate universe where only Ben and Reed traveled in the rocket and received their powers.
- Reprints
- in Fantastiska Fyran (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1980 series) #12/1980
- in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116 (16 Settembre 1975)
- in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #19 (February 16, 1977) [black and white]
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #115 (1978)
- in Une Aventure des Fantastiques (Editions Lug, 1973 series) #19 - Les sortilèges de Diablo (3ème trimestre 1979)
- in Fantastiske Fire (Atlantic Forlag, 1980 series) #12/1980 ([desember] 1980)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #6 (2007) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12 [Regular Edition] ([February] 2010)
- in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #4 (2021)
-
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Stan and John, In the final Kirby ish of the FF...
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Roger Schoolcraft & Norman Elder, Larry Trepel, and Bruce Roland.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Thunder in the Ruins
Fantastic Four -
1.
Thunder in the Ruins!
Fantastic Four -
2.
What Mad World?
Fantastic Four -
3.
Apologia Pro Vita Bullpen!
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox -
4.
["Dear Stan and John, In the final Kirby ish of the FF..."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Del Gruber
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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