The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space/Prisoner of the Skrulls/The Fantastic Four Fight Back!/The Fantastic Four… Captured! Release: September 28, 1961 Cover: January, 1962 10 cents Credits: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Inks: George Klein (Uncredited) 24 pages
I read this in Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 1. The Table of Contents credits the issue to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby; I don’t see any credits in the issue itself. Online sources cite George Klein as the inker.
Hey, it’s the Skrulls! They were just in that movie last month!
The Fantastic Four!/The Fantastic Four Meet the Mole Man!/The Mole Man’s Secret! Release: August 8, 1961 Cover: November, 1961 Price: $0.10 Credits: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Inks: George Klein (uncredited) 25 pages
And so was born “The Fantastic Four!!” And from that moment on, the world would never again be the same!!
I read this in Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 1. The Table of Contents credits the issue to Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, whose signatures appear in the issue. It claims the inker is unknown. Online sources cite George Klein as the inker.
What is their mission?
It’s clear to me why modern reboots and films of the FF has always been hard. There is a lot not explained here. Reed built that spaceship. Was it his? The government’s? Why did he steal it? Beating the Commies to space is an outdated motivation for many reasons in 2019. We’ve been to space. Commies no longer a threat. And what was the goal of the mission? They don’t say. Just to get to space? Yuri Gagaran did that in April, 1961. So was there more to their mission? Was Stan just not up on the news? The comic was out-of-date before it was published.
