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Issue Details

Issue #118
Published January 1972
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "Thunder in the Ruins"

Characters Fantastic Four [Mr Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Crystal; Lockjaw
Genre superhero
Pencils John Buscema
Inks John Romita; John Verpoorten
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116; in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12

15 page Fantastic Four story "Thunder in the Ruins!"

Characters FEATURE: Fantastic Four--Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch; The Thing; GUESTS: Crystal; Lockjaw; VILLAIN: Diablo
Synopsis The Fantastic Four travel to Terra Verde to rescue Crystal from the mind control of Diablo.
Genre superhero
Script Archie Goodwin
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Jim Mooney
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116; in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #18 [pp. 1-11]; in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #19 [pp. 12-15]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12

6 page Fantastic Four story "What Mad World?"

Characters FEATURE: Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch; The Thing]; GUEST: Lockjaw
Synopsis Lockjaw transports the Thing to an alternate universe where only Ben and Reed traveled in the rocket and received their powers.
Genre superhero
Script Archie Goodwin
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Jim Mooney
Letters Sam Rosen
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #116; in Captain Britain (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #19; in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #12

1 page Bullpeen Bulletins promo (ad from the publisher)

Script Stan Lee (Soapbox column); ?
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1 page Fantastic Four Fan Page letters page

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