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Issue: Fantastic Four #2

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Publication Date: January 1962

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Issues: #2 of 416 Issues (912 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: MC

Indicia Publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.

On Sale Date: (not set)

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

Fantastic Four #2 [British]

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Content Items (6 total)

Skrulls from Outer Space!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

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]]; Skrulls

First Line: They had taken a deadly oath to destroy the Fantastic Four!

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Pages: 1

The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: What is happening here??

Synopsis: Four shape-changing Skrulls pose as the Fantastic Four and act as criminals while the true ones are in the country and recall their origin.

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Pages: 6

Job Number: V-457

Part 2 Prisoner of the Skrulls

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: Even as the Fantastic Four ponder their next move, grim, silent figures stealthily creep toward their cabin -- like a horde of avenging wraiths!

Synopsis: The real FF is imprisoned by the government for their criminal acts. They escape and decide to flush out the imitating Skrulls.

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Pages: 8

The Fantastic Four Fight Back!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: Let go of that weapon!

Synopsis: The FF infiltrate the Skrull mothership and pose as the Skrull spies. Mr. Fantastic uses clippings from Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery to trick the Skrulls into thinking that the Earth forces are too strong to attack.

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Pages: 5

The Thing

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

Character(s): The Thing [Ben Grimm]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: V-457

The Fantastic Four... Captured!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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

First Line: Stepping out of the now-motionless ship, four pairs of eyes are blinded by the glare of giant floodlights!

Synopsis: The four Skrull spies are captured, forced to take on the form of cows and then hypnotized to forget all of their former lives.

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Pages: 5