Dates
- Cover date
- December 1962
- On sale
- September 4, 1962
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Regular EditionSource ↗
Fantastic Four No. 9 Facsimile Edition (2025). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- The End of The Fantastic Four! · 5 pages
The Fantastic Four are bankrupt and the Sub-Mariner is scheming to use this.
- Part 2 Sub-Mariner Gives the Orders! · 5 pages
The Sub-Mariner offers the Fantastic Four one million dollars if they star in a film that he's producing.
- Part 3 The Fury of Mr. Fantastic · 3 pages
Mr. Fantastic discovers that the film project is a setup.
- Part 4 The Flame of Battle · 5 pages
Human Torch and Thing discover that the film project is a setup.
- Vengeance Is Ours! Part 5 · 5 pages
The film is produced and an unwilling Sub-Mariner pays the Fantastic Four their money.
Publisher’s description
When the Fantastic Four go bankrupt, they're invited to S.M. Studios to make the movie about their life in order to recoup their funding. Little do they know that S.M. Studios is owned by one of their greatest enemies!
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Marvel Collectors' Item Classics (1965), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (1997), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), Namor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection (2021), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), Fantastic Four No. 9 Facsimile Edition (2025), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Wham! (1964), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Famous Firsts: 75th Anniversary Masterworks Slipcase Set (2014), Namor the Sub-Mariner Omnibus (2025)