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Issue: Fantastic Four #13

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Publication Date: April 1963

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Issues: #13 of 416 Issues (912 Printings)

Title:

Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.

On Sale Date: 01/03/1963

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)
6 (4 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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Variants2

Fantastic Four #13 [U.S. Cover Price]

Fantastic Four #13 [British]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (6 total)

The Red Ghost!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; the Red Ghost [Ivan Kragoff]

First Line: Mystery on the moon!!!

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Pages: 1

The Fantastic Four Versus the Red Ghost and His Indescribable Super-Apes! [Part 1]

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]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]]; the Red Ghost [Ivan Kragoff] (origin); the Red Ghost's super-apes (origin)

First Line: Twilight in New York!

Synopsis: While Reed prapares a journey to the Blue Area of the Moon, Ivan Kragoff trains three apes to pilot a spaceship and take possession of the moon "for the communist empire".

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Pages: 5

Job Number: X-138

Part 2 Menace on the Moon!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]]; the Red Ghost [Ivan Kragoff]; the Red Ghost super-apes; the Watcher [Uatu] (introduction)

First Line: Meanwhile, in the American ship, safely shielded against the mysterious cosmic rays...

Synopsis: In space, the Fantastic Four's ship crosses that of Ivan Kragoff and they learn of the powers the apes have acquired before landing on the moon.

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Pages: 6

Notes: baboon; gorilla; orangutan; Blue Area; ancient civilization

Part 3 The Watcher Appears!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; the Watcher [Uatu]; the Red Ghost [Ivan Kragoff]; the Red Ghost's super-apes

First Line: Suddenly, before the Thing can make another move, the three apes are whisked away from him by an invisible force...

Synopsis: The Watcher appears and explains where he comes from and why he cannot take sides in the battle between the Fantastic Four and the Red Ghost.

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Pages: 3

Job Number: X-138

Part 4 Duel in the Dead City!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; The Red Ghost [Ivan Kragoff]; the Red Ghost's super-apes; the Watcher [Uatu]

First Line: We're inside an enormous dead city!

Synopsis: The Fantastic Four battles the Red Ghost and his super-apes on the moon.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: X-138

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Letters page replies by Stan Lee. Thing illo taken from an earlier issue. Letter from George R. R. Martin.