Dates
- Cover date
- May 1962
- On sale
- February 8, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #4 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ 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. 4 Facsimile Edition (2025). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- The Coming of... Sub-Mariner! Chapter 1 On the Trail of the Torch! · 5 pages
The Fantastic Four is searching for the runaway Human Torch.
- Chapter 2 Enter the Sub-Mariner! · 5 pages
Fleeing the Thing, the runaway Human Torch finds the amnesiac Sub-Mariner.
- Chapter 3 Let the World Beware! · 3 pages
The Human Torch drops the Sub-Mariner into the sea and he regains his memory.
- Chapter 4 Sub-Mariner's Revenge! · 5 pages
The Sub-Mariner sends Giganto to smash New York.
- Chapter 5 Return to the Deep! · 5 pages
The Thing walks into Giganto with a bomb and blows him up. The Human Torch sweeps the Sub-Mariner and Giganto away into the sea. The Sub-Mariner says "I'll be back!"
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Marvel Treasury Edition (1974), Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four (1977), The Fantastic Four (1979), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Limited: Fantastic Firsts (1994), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (1997), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), Grandson of Origins of Marvel Comics (1998), Fantastic Firsts (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), Kirby Is… Fantastic! King-Size (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), Namor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection (2021), Fantastic Four (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2023), Fantastic Four No. 4 Facsimile Edition (2025)