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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published December 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "The Hate Monger!"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch; Invisible Girl; Thing; Nick Fury; Hate Monger
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Paul Reinman
Notes Cover inks credit from Nick Caputo via the GCD Error List (1 November 2006); the original indexer credited George Roussous.
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #15; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #13 (1990); in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #3; in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #1; in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #2 [in black and white]

22 page Fantastic Four story "The Hate-Monger!"

Characters The Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; colonel Nick Fury (first post-war appearance, without his trademark eye-patch); The Hate Monger (introduction, death)
Synopsis Nick Fury, now a colonel in the CIA, enlist the aid or the Fantastic Four against the Hate-Monger even though they are under the control of his Hate-Ray.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks George Roussos (as George Bell)
Letters Artie Simek (pages 1-13), Sam Rosen (uncredited, pages 14-22)
Notes Job number from Tom Lammers and Ger Apeldoorn via the Atlas/Timely discussion group. Sam Rosen lettering credit via the GCD-errors list, Nov 25, 2007.
Reprinted in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (Marvel, 1965 series) #15; in Giant-Size Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1974 series) #3; in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #13 (1990); in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #3; in Fantastic Four Omnibus (Marvel, 2005 series) #1; in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #16; in Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Marvel, 2007 series) #1; in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #2 [in black and white]