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Issue: Fantastic Four #4

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Publication Date: May 1962

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Issues: #4 of 416 Issues (912 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.

On Sale Date: 02/08/1962

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: 9.0 pence GBQ 0-0-9

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

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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2 Fantastic Four #4 [U.S. Cover Price]

Fantastic Four #4 [British]

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Content Items (8 total)

The Coming of the Sub-Mariner!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner

First Line: Stop him!

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Pages: 1

The Coming of... Sub-Mariner! Chapter 1 On the Trail of the Torch!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Monster from Mars-statue (flashback); Miracle Man (flashback)

First Line: At a secret skyscraper hideout, in the caverns of New York, three of the most fantastic humans on earth are found!

Synopsis: The Fantastic Four is searching for the runaway Human Torch.

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-643

Chapter 2 Enter the Sub-Mariner!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner

First Line: Flame off, Torch!

Synopsis: Fleeing the Thing, the runaway Human Torch finds the amnesiac Sub-Mariner.

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Pages: 5

Chapter 3 Let the World Beware!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner

First Line: At the very moment that Johnny Storm makes his incredible discovery, the other members of the Fantastic Four are continuing their strange search...

Synopsis: The Human Torch drops the Sub-Mariner into the sea and he regains his memory.

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Pages: 3

Job Number: V-643

Chapter 4 Sub-Mariner's Revenge!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Giganto (introduction)

First Line: No sooner does Namor utter those fateful words, than the three other members of the mighty foursome, back at their headquarters again, planning their next move, see...

Synopsis: The Sub-Mariner sends Giganto to smash New York.

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Pages: 5

Mister Fantastic

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Fantastic Four Pin-Up Page

Character(s): Mr. Fantastic

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Pages: 1

Notes: Pin-up of Reed Richards/Mr.Fantastic

Chapter 5 Return to the Deep!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Giganto (death)

First Line: Slowly, warily, knowing that each step might be his last, the Thing stalks deeper and deeper inside the gigantic sea creature...

Synopsis: The Thing walks into Giganto with a bomb and blows him up. The Human Torch sweeps the Sub-Mariner and Giganto away into the sea. The Sub-Mariner says "I'll be back!"

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Pages: 5

Job Number: V-643

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Thing; Invisible Girl

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Len Blake, Anthony Gonzales, S. Goldberg, Shirley Howard, Bruce Fogel, Jim Moony, and "unsigned."