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Fantastic Four Annual 1 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 1 Universal |
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CGC |
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0786942002
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 7.5
Cream to off-white pages.
Published, 1963
Early Spiderman appearance. Origin of the Sub-Mariner.
15 Pin ups.
1rst apperance of Lady Dorma and Krang.
Stan Lee Story Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers cover and art.
"THE UNDERSEA LEGIONS OF
SUB-MARINER!"
Title: "Sub-Mariner Versus the Human Race!"
Namor has finally found the lost people of Atlantis and is reunited with his lover Lady Dorma, much to the displeasure of Warlord Krang. While on the surface world, the Thing and Human Torch are on another childish rampage through the Baxter Building, once the spat is sorted out it's suggested that perhaps a vacation is in order.
Wanting to check out reports of giant sea creatures, Reed suggests a cruise, however when gigantic aquatic specimens show themselves, the FF are captured by Namor when they go to investigate. Namor demands that the FF deliver a message to the United Nations that the seas and the air above belong to the nation of Atlantis. Seeking an audience at the United Nations, after hearing the origins of Homo Mameri and the origins of Namor from Professor G.W. Falton, Reed informs the Nations that Namor is a menace.
Falton reveals himself to be Namor in disguise, and declares war on the surface world. Sending an army to attack New York City, the FF's first attempt at fighting back the invading Atlantians fails. However, Reed builds a device which causes the water in the warriors helmets to evaporate forcing a retreat. Attacking the FF directly, Namor kidnaps Sue and takes her aboard his ship. While the FF is fighting Namor for Sue's freedom, Warlord Krang and Lady Dorma attempt to drown Sue, prompting Namor to rescue her. Needing immediate medical attention, Namor swims Sue to shore and brings her to a hospital.
The FF meeting up with him there, Namor calls off his attack against the surface world for the time being and returns to the oceans depths.
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Fantastic Four Annual 3 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 3 Universal |
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CGC |
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1233459016
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 8.5
WHITE Pages
Published, 1965
Reed Richards and Sue Storm wed.
Daredevil, X-Men, Avengers, Nick Fury,
Doctor Doom and Watcher appearance.
Stan Lee story
Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta art
Jack Kirby and Mike Esposito cover
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Fantastic Four Annual 4 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 4 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1160021010
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.6
WHITE Pages
Published, November 1966
Origin and 1st Silver Age appearance of the Golden Age Human Torch.
Quasimodo and the Mad Thinker appearance.
Stan Lee story Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott cover and art
ALL NEW! The sensation of the century!! The ORIGINAL HUMAN TORCH actually returns from the past to battle JOHNNY STORM!
EXTRA BONUS: You'll finally see the origin of the HUMAN TORCH, as created in 1939!!
PLUS...The most requested BATTLE re-presentatio in comic history! The THING vs The Incredible HULK exactly as immortalized in F.F. #s 25 & 26!
'NUFF SAID!
Title: "The Torch that Was"
While Reed, Sue, and Ben read over some fan mail, they are suddenly startled when Lockjaw transports Johnny and Wyatt into the Baxter Building. While elsewhere, the Mad Thinker (with the help of his computer Quasimodo which he promises to provide a human body in exchange for help) recover the body of the original Human Torch and begin repairing it.
While Reed is examining Lockjaw's teleportation powers, Johnny travels out to the desert to try to find a way with his own power to break through the Negative Zone sealing off the Hidden Land of the Inhumans. There he is attacked by the original Human Torch. The battle is eventually broken up with the arrival of the rest of the Fantastic Four and Wyatt when they are transported there by Lockjaw. Separating the two, the original Torch gets back under control. When they are teleported into the Mad Thinker's lab, the Thinker has Quasimodo activate a device which causes the original Torch to destruct, allowing the Mad Thinker to escape. When Lockjaw begins teleporting Johnny and Wyatt leap onto the beast being transported away. In the aftermath the rest of the FF depart as well, leaving Quasimodo with his dreams of being human crushed.
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Fantastic Four Annual 5 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 5 |
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CGC |
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1160021011
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.6
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE Pages
Published, November 1967
1st solo Silver Surfer story.
1st appearance of Psycho-Man.
"Death" of Quasimodo.
Stan Lee story Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott cover and art
Featuring: THE INHUMANS! THE BLACK PANTHER! AND A most surprising ANNOUNCEMENT from Mr. Fantastic!
Special Bonus... The SILVER SURFER! A complete feature length thriller!
Title: "Divide -- and Conquer!"
Susan Richards suddenly faints, prompting the FF to look over her, however Thing leaves to go spent time with Alicia. Meanwhile, elsewhere the Psycho-Man punishes one of his subordinates for delivering a component to his device to Alicia's home, getting together his minions Shellshock, Ivan, and Live Wire to help recover the device.
At Alicia's home, Thing tries to figure out the strange component that was delivered to her apartment. Soon they are attacked by Psycho-Man and his minions who defeat Ben and take the component. Meanwhile, Black Panther leads an army to Panther Island where they briefly get into a battle against the Inhumans. Realizing that they have mutual allies and that Black Bolt brought the Inhumans because he sensed danger. Investigating, they come across the Psycho-Man's base and have to fight off his defenses.
Back in New York, Reed announces to the FF that Sue is pregnant, and the group celebrates. Back on Panther Island, the Inhumans and Black Panther find themselves overwhelmed and so they have Lockjaw bring the Fantastic Four to the Psycho-Man's base to turn the tide. There they battle their way to Psycho-Man, who reveals to them that he comes from the Microverse and he intends to take over this world with a giant emoto-caster weapon. Being attacked by all the heroes, soon Psycho-Man is subdued, when Black Panther questions him they find the Psycho-Man is motionless, upon closer inspection what they thought was Psycho-Man, was really a robot body piloted by a small being.
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Fantastic Four Annual 6 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 6 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1197670001
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.0
WHITE Pages
Published, November, 1968
Birth of Franklin Richards. 1st appearance of Annihilus.
Stan Lee story
Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott cover and art
Title: "LET THERE BE -- LIFE!"
With Sue about to give birth at any moment, her life is at risk unless Reed can secure Element X, an element only found from a single source in the Negative Zone, that will save her and the baby's life from the risk posed by the very cosmic rays in Sue's body.
Travelling into the Negative Zone, Reed, Ben and Johnny are captured by Annihilus, whose Cosmic Control Rod has the element that Reed needs; however Annihilus, obsessed with the immortality the rod provides refuses to part with it. Stealing the rod, Reed, Johnny and Ben are chased all over the Negative Zone dodging the various threats and opponents set against them by Annihilus.
Trapped on a floating rock drifting towards the barrier between positive and negative matter (and a very explosive death) Reed is forced to give up the Rod to Annihilus, but not without siphoning out some of the Element X needed to save Sue and the baby's life. Escaping Annihilus and returning to the positive matter universe, Reed and the others rush to the hospital with the element. Sometime later, Sue gives birth to a health baby boy with no further complications.
Notes
Reed and Sue do not choose a name for their son until Fantastic Four #94.
Annihilus will appear next in Fantastic Four #107
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Fantastic Four Annual 7 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 7 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1566234016
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.4
WHITE Pages
Published, November, 1969
Photos of entire Marvel Bullpen
Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott cover
The FABULOUS F.F. in blazing battle with their TWO DEADLIEST FOES..
DR. DOOM and the mysterious, macabre MOLE MAN!
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Fantastic Four Annual 8 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 8 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0185895003
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.6
WHITE Pages
Published, December 1970
11 pin ups.
John Romita cover
"THE FINAL DEFEAT OF THE HUMAN RACE!
The longest SUB-MARINER - FF super-epic ever published!
Title: "Sub-Mariner VS The Human Race!"
This story is a reprint of
Fantastic Four Annual #1.
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Fantastic Four Annual 9 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 9 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
4124726004
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.4
WHITE Pages
Published, December, 1971
CUSTOM LABEL
"LO, THERE SHALL BE AN ENDING'
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Fantastic Four Annual 10 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 10 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
1343590008
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.6
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE Pages
Published, 1973
Sal Buscema cover
This is it!
The BIGGEST, BDDEST array of GUEST STARS and SUPER VILLAINS ever assembled in one mighty mag!
of the F.F.'s greatest saga!
The WEDDING of SUE and REED
plus: The ORIGINAL Human Torch Returns!
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Fantastic Four Annual 11 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 11 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0701281002
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.8
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE Pages
Published, 1976
Invaders, Baron Zemo
& Watcher appearance.
Roy Thomas story
John Buscema & Sam Grainger art
The FIGHTING MAD INVADERS!
Title: "And Then -- the Invaders!"
The Fantastic Four are in a training session to see how well the team meshes now that Ben's powers are derived from an exo-suit instead of cosmic rays since he lost his powers fighting the Hulk. During the fight, Ben manages to break out the floor causing the group to crash to the level beneath them, much to Reed's annoyance because they are short on money. Ben tells them that all they need to do is use Dr. Doom's time machine and get some money, and enters into Reed's lab.
Upon investigating the lab, Reed notices that a cylinder of Vibranium he was examining has gone missing and theorizes that it was possibly knocked through Dr. Doom's time machine during Power Man's rampage through his lab a few days earlier. Checking his time machine, Reed's theories are confirmed as the machine has been set to the year 1946. This come as a shock to the group because the war was over by 1944, a fact that Reed and Ben know for a fact having served in the US military during World War II. They begin to puzzle out the fact that the Vibranium must have been sent back to some previous point in history. They are then visited by the Watcher, confirming to Reed that their pasts are all in peril, however the Watcher will not talk having vowed never to interfere with humanity again[1].
Reed puts together a time scope so that they can pin point the time in which history had changed. Scanning back to 1946 they are shocked to witness the Nazi army storming Cleveland, Ohio. Scanning other areas they find that New York City, London England, and Moscow are under Nazi control. Scanning back further they find that Lower Manhattan was taken over by the Nazi's in 1944, and the channel Landing in 1943. They finally find the actually point of divergence in 1942, somehow utilizing the Vibranium sent into the past the Nazi's had perfected their V-2 Rockets earlier and completed a successful attack on London. Calculating the probable point in time when the Nazi's obtained the Vibranium, the Fantastic Four set the time machine to early 1942 and hop on.
In 1942, in a secret Allied base, the Invaders have gathered to discuss their plan to attack Castle Cherbelle, a location intelligence has indicated is where the Nazi's are busy creating new secret weapons in their bid to take over all of Europe. When the Fantastic Four materialize in the middle of the room, the Invaders think they are Nazi spies. Insulted and enraged at being called a Nazi, Ben attacks them causing a fight between the Fantastic Four and the Invaders until Mr. Fantastic manages to break up the fight. Explaining who they are, they offer their aid to help the Invaders, pointing out that they have a common goal. Although they are not quick to believe the FF's story about time travel, they agree to let them join the fight since what they speak of matches the intelligence they have collected.
Meanwhile, Johnny, Captain America and Bucky stumble upon a battalion of Nazi soldiers and are confronted by Baron Zemo. While Johnny deals with the Nazi soldiers, Captain America clashes with Baron Zemo, striking a barrel of his Adhesive X causing it to spill on the villain's head gluing his hood to his skull for all time. Furious, Baron Zemo strikes Cap with a wrench and manage to escape, vowing to get revenge on Captain America in the future.
While elsewhere in the castle, Ben, the original Human Torch and his partner Toro come across the Nazi's Vibranium enhanced V-2 rockets. As the Torch and Toro trash the rockets some of the Nazi's manage to launch one of them towards London. Ben manages to jump onto the rocket and tries to redirect it. He manages to redirect it toward the castle, destroying it.
Thinking that he's been killed, Ben wakes up to find himself back in 1976 with his fellow teammates and realizes that Reed had built a device to return them to the present once their mission was accomplished. Back in their own time, Reed points out that they only recovered half the cylinder of Vibranium but considers the mission accomplished. The group goes off to celebrate. Ben tells them that he will catch up with them once he has taken off his exo-suit.
As he's doing so he notices that the Watcher is still in their room. Ben realizes that their mission in the past is far from finished, and he decides to go back to 1942 and finish the job by himself.
This story is continued in Marvel Two-In-One Annual #1.
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Fantastic Four Annual 12 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 12 |
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CGC |
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1176762003
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Owner Comments
Signature Series Grade 9.6
WHITE Pages
Published, 1977
SIGNED BY BOB HALL & KEITH POLLARD ON 5/18/13
Inhumans & Sphinx appearance.
Marv Wolfman story, John Buscema cover Bob Hall and Keith Pollard art
"FURY IN THE STARS!"
Guest-starring the uncanny INHUMANS
Title: "The End of the Inhumans... and the Fantastic Four: Hither Comes... Crystal! /
Chapter 2 Hollywood, Here We Are! /
Chapter 3 Battle for the Great Refuge! /
Chapter 4 ...And into -- Space! /
Chapter 5 The Sphinx!"
Johnny Storm, with much fanfare, is about to test a new rocket-powered racing car at the Nassau County Race Track. He had been working on the vehicle "for months" with a mechanic named Ted. who Is at the track with him. After the photographer finishes, Johnny climbs in, turns on the ignition, and flashes away. The car, which he named the Jet Streak, functions perfectly—as Johnny, who used Reed's computers In designing It, knew it would. Suddenly Crystal and Lockjaw materialize in the back seat. There is a crisis in the Great Refuge, she says, and the Inhumans need Johnny's help at once. Before Johnny can nod his agreement, Lockjaw quickly teleports all of them away, leaving the driverless car to smash in flames into the retaining wall. In Attilan, Crystal explains that the Great Refuge has been rebuilt into a fortress and that her husband. Quicksilver, and all the other members of the Royal Family have been taken prisoner. Johnny flames on and flies over the city, but he is quickly struck by an energy bolt from an ion cannon by Thraxon, the traitorous Inhuman responsible for the crisis. Johnny falls to the ground uninjured and shatters the cannon with a flame bolt; but Thraxon protects himself behind an invulnerable shield.
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Fantastic Four Annual 13 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 13 Universal |
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CGC |
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1204280004
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.6
WHITE Pages
Published, 1978
Mole Man appearance.
Daredevil cameo.
Bill Mantlo story
Sal Buscema & Joe Sinnott art
Keith Pollard & Steve Leialoha cover
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Fantastic Four Annual 14 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 14 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0918491011
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.8
WHITE Pages
Published, 1979
Sandman appearance.
Marv Wolfman story, Joe Sinnott cover
George Perez and Pablo Marcos art
HE'S BEEN A CHILD… UNTIL NOW!
BUT UNLESS HE GROWS UP FAST, THE FANTASTIC FOUR ARE DEAD!
Title: "Cat's-Paw!"
The action opens immediately with the Fantastic Four taking down the Sandman, who appears to be robbing a bank in New York. Afterwards, they return to the Baxter Building where they run into their old family friend Agatha Harkness. Harkness asks them if they would like to accompany her back to New Salem for a festival. The team decides to do so, take young Franklin and make this into a vacation. This brings them into a major conflict with Salem's Seven who are trying to return Nicholas Scratch to the earthly realm. Salem's Seven defeat the FF and leave Agatha Harkness and all the residents of New Salem in a coma like trance. They spare Franklin Richards as he is just a apparently harmless child. They transport the unconscious Fantastic Four back to New York City.
Franklin's mutant powers bring Agatha and the town out of their trance. Agatha and Franklin journey back to the Baxter Builing where Salem's Seven have arranged the inert bodies of the Fantastic Four as a nexus to return Nicholas Scratch to the realm. The Avengers and other heroes of New York note this huge surge of pulsating energy. When they come to investiagate, they are rebuffed by an invisible mystic barrier. Agatha, with her magical powers, and Franklin are able to go through the mystic barrier. They encounter a mind-controlled Fantastic Four who have been ordered by Salem's Seven to kill the two intruders. However, the team is released from the mind-control and they return to confront Salem's Seven. Agatha is able to take away Salem's Seven's power and keep her son, Nicholas Scratch, imprisoned in this dark realm.
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Fantastic Four Annual 15 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 15 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0743595001
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.8
WHITE Pages
Published, 1980
George Perez & Joe Sinnott cover.
Captain Marvel & Doctor Doom appearance.
Doug Moench story George Perez, Chic Stone, Mike Esposito, John D'Agostino & Tom Sutton art
Mister Fantastic fighting alongside CAPTAIN MARVEL must defeat the skrulls PRIME TEN or the galaxy dies!
Plus a 2nd all new feature! DR. DOOM LIVES!
Title: "Time for the Prime Ten"
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Fantastic Four Annual 16 |
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Fantastic Four Annual 16 |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0985071004
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Owner Comments
Universal Grade 9.8
WHITE Pages
Published, 1981
Ed Hannigan story
Steve Ditko cover and art
The coming of DRAGON LORD!
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