Fantastic Four #8

Dates

Cover date

November 1962

On sale

August 9, 1962

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition12¢ cover

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover

  British

  Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].

  This edition’s page

Creators

Stories

• Prisoners of the Puppet Master! · 5 pages

  The Puppet Master tests his radioactive clay that gives him the power to remotely control people that are modeled in the clay.

• The Hands of the Puppet Maker Part 2 · 5 pages

  The Puppet Master gets the Thing under his command and imprisons the Invisible Girl. He then send the Thing and Alicia Masters to infiltrate the Baxter Building.

• The Lady and the Monster! Part 3 · 3 pages

  While acting under the Puppet Master's influence, the Thing is subjected to one of Mister Fantastic's potions that changes him back to Ben Grimm.

• Face-to-face with the Puppet Master! Part 4 · 5 pages

  The Puppet Master stages a jailbreak just to prove his might. Invisible Girl sends a distress signal to her teammates and the Puppet Master flees when meeting the combined forces of the Fantastic Four.

• Death of a Puppet! Part 5 · 5 pages

  The jail break is stopped by the Fantastic Four and the Puppet Master falls to what seems to be his death.

Reprinted in

Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (1997), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), True Believers: Fantastic Four - Puppet Master (2019), Fantastic Four (2019), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), Fantastic Four No. 8 Facsimile Edition (2025), Wham! (1964), Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014)