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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published November 1966
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 76
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The sensation of the century!! The original Human Torch acutally returns from the past to battle Johnny Storm!"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch; Thing]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Hulk (inset)
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Sinnott
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #53; in Fantastic Four Adventures (Panini UK, 2010 series) #2

1 page Fantastic Four foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Contents page"

Characters Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Woman; Thing]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Hulk; Iron Man
Genre Superhero
Notes Inside front cover.

19 page Fantastic Four story "The Torch That Was!"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing; Human Torch]; Mad Thinker; Quasimodo; Lockjaw; Wyatt Wingfoot; Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (Origin); Professor Phineas Horton (flashback)
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes The Mad Thinker, in his many efforts to best the Fantastic Four, finds the android body of the original Human Torch and re-activates him. The Thinker then forces him to attack the team.
Reprinted in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #189; in Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series) #10; in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #2; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #53; in Fantastic Four Adventures (Panini UK, 2010 series) #2

22 page Fantastic Four story "The Hulk Vs. The Thing"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing; Human Torch]; Alicia Masters; Hulk; Avengers [Captain America; Thor; Iron Man; Wasp; Giant-Man]; Rick Jones
Synopsis The Hulk is on a rampage and Ben wants to stop him.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos [as G. Bell]
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #25

23 page Fantastic Four story "The Avengers Take Over!"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing; Human Torch]; Hulk; Avengers [Captain America; Thor; Iron Man; Wasp; Giant-Man]; Rick Jones
Synopsis Not even the Avengers can stop the Hulk. But Rick Jones can.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos [as George Bell]
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted from Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #26