Saturday, September 5, 2015

Fantastic Four Comics

By 1961, there were few anthology titles left and none of them were 64 pages long like they were in the Golden Age. So, for fun, I thought I'd try rolling for content randomly (from what was published in that month) and see what would have comprised a Fantastic Four Comics anthology title at the larger page count. Thus, I give you -

Fantastic Four Comics #1 (November 1961)
Fantastic Four: "The Fantastic Four: Part I" (13 pages)
Millie the Model: "Millie's Big Moment" (2 pages)
Suspense: "The Creature from Krogarr" (7 pages)
Linda Carter: no title (4 pages)
Romance: "Too Young" (6 pages)
Suspense: "Midnight in the Wax Museum" (6 pages)
Love: "To Embrace a Dream" (5 pages)
Millie the Model: "Beauty at the Beach" (5 pages)
Suspense: "The Mechanical Men" (5 pages)
Suspense: "Forever Is a Long Time" (5 pages)
Love: "An Older Man" (6 pages)

Fantastic Four Comics #2 (December 1961)
Fantastic Four: "The Fantastic Four: Part II" (12 pages)
Suspense: "Something Lurks in the Fog" (5 pages)
Suspense:  "Why Won't They Believe Me?" (5 pages)
Kathy: "The Smartest Artist" (4 pages)
Suspense: "The Warning" (5 pages)
Millie the Model:  "Millie and the Martian" (5 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (2 pages)
Suspense: "Journey's End" (5 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Western: "The Man Who Robbed the Express" (5 pages)
Suspense: "The Coming of the Giants" (6 pages)
Suspense: "Dream World" (5 pages)

Fantastic Four Comics #3 (January 1962)
Fantastic Four: "The Skrulls from Outer Space: Part I" (12 pages)
Suspense: "The Man in the Ant Hill" (7 pages)
Kid Colt: "The Wall of Doom" (8 pages)
Love: "Little Girl" (7 pages)
Suspense: "The Man Who Shrunk the World" (6 pages)
Millie the Model: "The Keys to the Car" (3 pages)
Suspense: "Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" (6 pages)
Suspense: "The Enchanted Paint" (5 pages)
Suspense: "Somewhere Sits a Lama" (5 pages)
Linda Carter: no title (5 pages)

Fantastic Four Comics #4 (February 1962)
Fantastic Four: "The Skrulls from Outer Space: Part II" (12 pages)
Suspense: "The Scheme" (5 pages)
Suspense: "Midnight on Haunted Hill" (6 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (3 pages)
Suspense: "The Wax People" (5 pages)
Suspense: "I Come from the Black Void" (3 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Suspense: "When Aliens Walk the Earth" (5 pages)
Suspense: "They Were Only Scarecrows" (5 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Suspense: "The Spirit of Swami River" (5 pages)

Fantastic Four Comics #5 (March 1962)
Fantastic Four: "The Menace of the Miracle Man: Part I" (12 pages)
Western: "Hoofbeats of Doom" (5 pages)
Suspense: "Monsters on Mercury" (5 pages)
Linda Carter: untitled (4 pages)
Suspense: "He Came from Nowhere" (5 pages)
Suspense: "Save Me from the Weed" (6 pages)
Linda Carter: untitled (5 pages)
Western: "The Toledo Kid" (5 pages)
Love: "Lover's Quarrel" (5 pages)
Love: "My Lips Are Yours" (5 pages)
Suspense: "When the Space-Beasts Attack" (7 pages)

Fantastic Four Comics #6 (April 1962)
Fantastic Four: "The Menace of the Miracle Man: Part II" (11 pages)
Suspense: "The Secret of the Universe" (3 pages)
Suspense: "The Midnight Monster" (7 pages)
Millie the Model: "Millie vs. Marilyn Mansfield" (4 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (4 pages)
Suspense: "The Speed Demon" (5 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (4 pages)
Suspense: "The Return of the Gorilla-Man" (7 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Kathy: "There Ain't Nothing Like a Teen" (4 pages)
Patsy Walker: untitled (5 pages)
Suspense: "The Cave of Shaggdoor" (5 pages)