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Issue: Fantastic Four #20

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Publication Date: November 1963

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Issues: #20 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: 08/08/1963

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)
4 (1 story, 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

Format Notes:

Variants2

Fantastic Four #20 [U.S. Cover Price]

Fantastic Four #20 [British]

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Content Items (4 total)

The Molecule Man!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: Back, Torch -- back!!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Mysterious Molecule Man!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; the Molecule Man (introduction, origin); the Watcher [Uatu]; The Yancy Street Gang; Alicia Masters

First Line: What's going on, Sue?

Synopsis: The Watcher asks the Fantastic Four to stop a new menace who could destroy the whole universe: the Molecule Man.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 22

Job Number: X-419

Another Marvel Masterpiece

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Tales To Astonish

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Pages: 1

Notes: House ad for Tales To Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series) #49 (November 1963) with cover shown, advertised as "On Sale Now".

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

First Line: Dear Stan and Jack, Reading your mags...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Letters of comment from James Maupin; Anonymous; Wayne Shepard; Richard Cohen; Mark Gruenwald (as Fantastic Four Fan Club secretary); Dana Riell; Karl Spence; John Furek; Don Keefer; Kevin Shields; and George R. Martin.

Per the author of the fantasy series Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, his fan letter here was his first published work (as per interview given on 14 July 2012 on the G4 cable network show, Comic-Con Live),E