Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #20
Published November 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Molecule Man!"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch, The Thing]; Molecule Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #14; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 (1988); in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #1; in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #16

22 page Fantastic Four story "The Mysterious Molecule Man!"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; The Molecule Man (introduction); The Watcher; The Yancy Street Gang; Alicia Masters
Synopsis The Watcher asks the Fantastic Four to stop a new menace who could destroy the whole universe : the Molecule Man.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby; Steve Ditko ? (page 17, panel 3)
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters Artie Simek
Notes According to legend, the third panel on page 17 was redrawn by Steve Ditko. Ditko info by Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #14; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #6 (1988); in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #1; in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #16

2 page Fantastic 4 Fan Page letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from Mark Gruenwald
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1