CATALOG RECORD
Fantastic Four Annual #1
first appearance of Krang
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Krang (Sub-Mariner) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- [September] 1963
- On sale
- July 2, 1963
- Pages
- 76
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Sub-Mariner Versus the Human Race! · 37 pages
The Sub-Mariner locates the remnants of his undersea race and plans a new attack against the surface world.
- The Fabulous Fantastic Four Meet Spider-Man! · 6 pages
Spider-Man visits the Fantastic Four and fights them to prove he can become one of their members.
- Origin of the Fantastic Four · 13 pages
Mister Fantastic has sent the '4' flare into the sky to call together the other three members of the group - the Invisible Girl, the Thing, and the Human Torch. When they finally meet, Reed tells them that there is a fearful task awaiting them. The Fantastic Four origin is shown as the four teammates injudiciously rocket into outer space and become exposed to a cosmic ray bombardment. When they crash-land on Earth they soon discover that their bodies have changed and given each a different, unexpected super power.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Marvel Masterworks (1987), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), The Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964), Marvel Tales (1966), Fantastic Four Special Edition (1984), Marvel Limited: Fantastic Firsts (1994), Fantastic Firsts (2002), Decades: Marvel in the '60s - Spider-Man Meets the Marvel Universe (2019), Namor, the Sub-Mariner Epic Collection (2021), Marvel July 1963 Omnibus (2023), Namor the Sub-Mariner Omnibus (2025)