Dates
- Cover date
- November 1962
- On sale
- August 9, 1962
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #8 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. 8 Facsimile Edition (2025). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
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.
Publisher’s description
The Puppet Master has arrived to control the Fantastic Four. What horrible things does he plan to do? And will our four heroes let the Puppet Master pull the strings that just may rip the family apart?
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)