Dates
- Cover date
- January 1962
- On sale
- September 28, 1961
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #2 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition10¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
This edition’s page
Fantastic Four No. 2 Facsimile Edition (2025). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space! · 6 pages
Four shape-changing Skrulls pose as the Fantastic Four and act as criminals while the true ones are in the country and recall their origin.
- Part 2 Prisoner of the Skrulls · 8 pages
The real Fantastic Four is imprisoned by the government for their criminal acts. They escape and decide to flush out the imitating Skrulls.
- The Fantastic Four Fight Back! · 5 pages
The Fantastic Four infiltrate the Skrull mothership and pose as the Skrull spies. Mr. Fantastic uses clippings from Strange Tales and Journey Into Mystery to trick the Skrulls into thinking that the Earth forces are too strong to attack.
- The Fantastic Four... Captured! · 5 pages
The four Skrull spies are captured, forced to take on the form of cows and then hypnotized to forget all of their former lives.
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four (1977), The Complete Fantastic Four (1977), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (1997), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), Target Fantastic Four Classic: Fantastic Firsts (2006), Secret Invasion: The Infiltration (2008), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), Secret Invasion: Rise of the Skrulls (2018), True Believers: Fantastic Four - Skrulls (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), Secret Invasion: Meet the Skrulls (2022), Fantastic Four (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2023), Fantastic Four No. 2 Facsimile Edition (2025)