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#11,552: Fantastic Four (1961) #2
"The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!"
Title: Fantastic Four (v001)
Editor-in-Chief: Stan Lee
Editor: Stan Lee
Writer: Stan Lee
Artist: Jack Kirby
Inker: George Klein, Sol Brodsky
Cover Artist: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
Colorist: Stan Goldberg
Letterer: John Duffy
Cover Date: January 1962
Release Date: September 1961
Pages: 24
Cover Price: $0.10
Times Read: 6,692
Times Rated: 2,979
Plot Flags: Character Introduction
Universe: Earth-616
Issue Blurb
The Fantastic Four are being framed for committing a series of crimes. The must clear their names while fighting a strange group of aliens bent on world domination
Issue Notes
In the letters page of FF #272 & #281 Sol Brodsky is identified as a second inker on this issue.

Also, this issue is split into 4 chapters:

1)The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!

2)Prisoner of the Skrulls

3)The Fantastic Four Fight Back

4)The Fantastic Four Captured

Why Essential Notes

This issue sees the introduction of the Skrulls, who are very important in the Marvel Universe. Additionally, it sees three skrulls left as cows, an event that will be referenced a couple of times several decades later.
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