Fantastic Four #100
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFantastic Four #100 (July 1970) holds a firm place in Marvel history as the first time any Marvel Comics series reached a 100-issue milestone, making it a genuine publishing landmark for the company that had only existed in its modern form since 1961. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby marked the occasion with a personal note to readers on the letters page — a rare direct acknowledgment from the creative team of how far both the book and the nascent Marvel universe had come. The story's central conceit — the Mad Thinker and the Puppet Master deploying android replicas of nearly every major villain the team had ever fought — functions as a deliberate retrospective of the entire Lee/Kirby run, a celebration-in-action of the FF's rich nine-year rogues' gallery. The issue also arrives just two issues before Kirby's own departure from Marvel, giving it additional historical weight as one of the final chapters in the most consequential writer-artist collaboration in Silver Age comics.
Fantastic Four #100 (1970) celebrates a milestone with "The Long Journey Home!" — a high-stakes showdown as the team faces off against the Mad Thinker and the Puppet Master in a battle packed with surprises. Penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Joe Sinnott, the issue delivers classic Marvel chaos, with Kirby’s dynamic covers and bold storytelling bringing the action to life.
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The issue was written by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by longtime series inker Joe Sinnott, and lettered by Sam Rosen — the same core production team that had shepherded the book since its earliest years. Lee served as both writer and editor-in-chief, and the letters page for this issue carried a joint personal note from Lee and Kirby acknowledging the centennial milestone directly to their readership. The issue's release date places it squarely in the period when Kirby was preparing to leave Marvel for DC, meaning the anniversary was produced under considerable behind-the-scenes tension; Kirby would draw only two more issues of the title before departing.
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- Published with a cover date of July 1970 (on-sale April 1970), making it the first Marvel Comics ongoing series to reach issue #100.
- Story title: 'The Long Journey Home!' — written by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott, lettered by Sam Rosen.
- The plot centers on the Mad Thinker and the Puppet Master using android duplicates of the FF's greatest enemies — including facsimiles of Kang the Conqueror, Doctor Doom, the Hulk, Dragon Man, Namor, the Hate-Monger, Diablo, the Super-Skrull, the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, the Wizard, the Trapster, and the Sandman — as a gauntlet against the returning team.
- Crystal (Crystalia Amaquelin) of the Inhumans guest-stars and plays a significant combative role, using her elemental powers against multiple android foes throughout the issue.
- The letters page features a joint 'Personal Note from Stan and Jack' directly addressing the achievement of 100 issues — one of the few times Lee and Kirby spoke to readers together in print.
- This is one of the final issues produced by the Lee–Kirby partnership; Kirby would leave Marvel after issue #102, making #100 part of the closing chapter of their historic nine-year collaboration.
- The issue has been reprinted numerous times internationally and domestically, including in Marvel's Greatest Comics #81 (1979), The Greatest Villains of the Fantastic Four (1995), Best of the Fantastic Four (2005), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four Vol. 10 (2006), the Fantastic Four Epic Collection Vol. 6: At War with Atlantis (2020), and the Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 4 (2021).
- A UK edition was published simultaneously with an identical interior but carrying a one-shilling cover price.
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Reprinted in De Vier Verdedigers Classics #48 (1971), Los 4 Fantásticos #127 (1971), Hit Comics Die fantastischen Vier #228 (1971), I Fantastici Quattro #98 (1975), Une Aventure des Fantastiques #15 (1978), Marvel's Greatest Comics #81 (1979), Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] #4/1979 (1979), Atlanticserien #4/1979 (1979), Fantastic Four Pocket Book #26 (1982), The Greatest Villains of the Fantastic Four #[nn] (1995), Best of the Fantastic Four #[nn] (2005), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #10 (2006), Marvel Gold. Los 4 Fantásticos #3 (2013), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #10 (2014), Fantastic Four Epic Collection #6 (2020), Fantastic Four Omnibus #4 (2021), Fantastic Four Omnibus #4 (2021), Οι 4 Φανταστικοί Τόμοι [Fantastic Four Volume] #4, Die Fantastischen Vier #96
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