- "This is even better than I expected!! Here are Mr. Fantastic's notes concerning his work with D.N.A., the building blocks of life itself! Using this information, I should be able to create a new form of life -- one which will serve only -- the Thinker!!"
- ―The Thinker
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| The Fantastic Four | |
| Title: | "The Fantastic Four Battle... The Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android" |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number: | 15 |
| Cover price: | .12 |
| Cover date: | June, 1963 |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Credits | |
| Chief: | Stan Lee |
| Writers: | Stan Lee |
| Pencilers: | Jack Kirby |
| Inkers: | Dick Ayers |
| Cover artists: | Jack Kirby |
| Cover inker: | Dick Ayers |
| Cover colorist: | Stan Goldberg |
| Cover letterer: | Artie Simek |
| Colorists: | Stan Goldberg |
| Letterers: | Artie Simek |
| Editors: | Stan Lee |
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| Next: | Fantastic Four #16 |
"The Fantastic Four Battle... The Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android" is the title to the fifteenth issue of the first Fantastic Four ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written by Stan Lee with artwork by Jack Kirby and inks by Dick Ayers. It was colored by Stan Goldberg and lettered by Artie Simek. This issue shipped with a June, 1963 cover date and carries a cover price of .12 cents per copy.
Appearances[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
Villains
- Awesome Android
- Mad Thinker
- Blackie Skarr
Minor characters
- Bones
- Cartwright
- Higgins
- Peggy
- Pierre
- Roger
- Shorty
- Van Dorn
Organizations
Races & Animals
Locations
Items
Vehicles
Powers
- Elasticity
- Energy projection
- Flight
- Genius-level intellect
- Invisibility
- Pyrokinesis
- Superhuman strength
Miscellaneous
Notes & Trivia[]
- The Fantastic Four were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. They first appeared in Fantastic Four, Volume 1 #1 in November, 1961. By and large, the roster of the Fantastic Four has remained the same over the years, consisting of Reed Richards as Mister Fantastic, Susan Storm as the Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm as the Human Torch and Ben Grimm as the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing. Occasional transitory members of the FF have included Crystal Amaquelin, Luke Cage, Scott Lang, and T'Challa.
- This is the first appearance of the Mad Thinker. He appears next in Fantastic Four #28.
- This is the first appearance of the Awesome Android. It appears next in Fantastic Four #28.
- This is the first full appearance of the Yancy Street Gang, of which Ben Grimm was once the leader of.