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1st app of Mad Thinker & Awesome Android; 1st full app. Yancy Street Gang; Letter from future writer & editor-in-chief, Roy Thomas; Jack Kirby & Dick Ayers cover/art; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 7 (CBI)


The Fantastic Four broke out big as Marvel's most popular stars, but the super team still had plenty of fantastic firsts in the action-packed issue #15! The sprawling title of "The Fantastic Four Battle the Mad Thinker and His Awesome Android" doesn't even address how the criminal genius (making his Marvel debut) first splits up the FF with a series of job offers.

By the time the ex-heroes decide to reunite, the Mad Thinker has taken over the Baxter Building and created his enduring Android from Reed Richards' prototype. This classic comic from the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby/Dick Ayers trinity also offers the first appearance of the Yancy Street Gang, and even has future Marvel legend Roy Thomas popping up in the letters page — helping to ensure that this later issue remains a beloved book to comic collectors!




Artists Information

Jack Kirby is called 'The King of Comics' for a reason, during his career that spanned six decades he gave us many of the most iconic characters the medium would ever see. From his introduction of Captain America at the height of World War II it was clear he wasn't your ordinary comics artist. But it was his creative explosion at Marvel Comics in the 1960's that cemented his legacy, over a short period of time Kirby would give us The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, The Hulk, The X-Men, Thor, Ant-Man and Nick Fury just to name a few. Kirby would then go to DC and create his Fourth World, introducing Darkseid, Mister Miracle, The New Gods and a host of cosmic supporting players. Long live The King!

Richard "Dick" Ayers was an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of the main inkers during the late-1950's and 1960's Silver Age of Comics, including some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' including Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four. He is the signature penciler of Marvel's World War II comic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, drawing it for a 10-year run, and he co-created Magazine Enterprises' 1950s Western-horror character the Ghost Rider, a version of which he would draw for Marvel in the 1960s. His career would span 7 decades until his death in 2014.