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Fantastic Four #115

Name: Fantastic Four #115
Brand: Marvel
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Oct 1971 · Marvel · 0.15 USD

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“The Secret of the Eternals”

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Fantastic Four #115 occupies a precise hinge point in the series' Bronze Age history: it is the issue where Stan Lee stepped back from scripting the title he co-created a decade earlier, handing actual dialogue and story structure to Archie Goodwin while retaining a plotting credit — a quiet but consequential editorial transition. The issue devotes most of its pages to Uatu the Watcher delivering the full origin of the Over-Mind, establishing the Eternals of Eyung (a warlike alien race entirely distinct from Jack Kirby's later Earth Eternals) as a richly detailed piece of Marvel cosmic mythology. The cliffhanger — a mind-controlled Reed Richards turning violently on the rest of the Fantastic Four — capped a four-part arc with real dramatic stakes, forcing the remaining three members to confront an enemy who had weaponized their own leader against them. It is also the last Marvel comic to carry the original 15-cent cover price, marking the end of an era for Bronze Age newsstand readers.

writer Archie Goodwin · writer Stan Lee · artist John Buscema · inker Joe Sinnott · letterer Artie Simek · cover John Buscema, John Romita

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History

The issue was produced during a transitional moment at Marvel: Stan Lee, serving simultaneously as editor-in-chief and writer of the flagship title, was pulling back from active scripting duties across multiple books. For FF #115, Lee supplied the plot while Archie Goodwin — a writer best known for his EC-influenced work — stepped in to script the dialogue, a arrangement Goodwin continued through issue #118. Penciler John Buscema and inker Joe Sinnott, already the book's defining artistic partnership of the era, handled the interiors; the cover bears the pencils of Buscema with touch-up work attributed to John Romita Sr., though the precise division of labor on the cover inks has been a matter of some debate among indexers. The letters page was replaced in this issue by an in-house advertisement spotlighting Conan #10 and the debut issue of Defenders, signaling Marvel's aggressive expansion of its line at the exact moment it was raising its cover price.

Trivia · 10 facts

Cover-dated October 1971; on-sale July 27, 1971; published by Marvel Comics as part of the Bronze Age.
Story title: 'In the Power of the Over-Mind!' — the third chapter of the four-part 'Secret of the Eternals' arc (FF #112–116).
Plot by Stan Lee, script by Archie Goodwin — marking Lee's transition away from full scripting of Fantastic Four; Goodwin continued as scripter through FF #118.
Pencils by John Buscema, inks by Joe Sinnott, lettering by Artie Simek; cover by John Buscema with John Romita Sr. touch-ups.
The issue delivers the full origin of the Over-Mind (Grom), revealing that the minds of the entire Eternals of Eyung civilization — hundreds of millions of beings — were transferred into Grom's body before he was launched into space in suspended animation.
First appearance of the Eternals of Eyung as a named/depicted civilization in backstory flashback (note: Over-Mind himself first appeared in FF #113).
The issue is the last Marvel comic to carry a 15-cent cover price, making it a publishing-history milestone for the Bronze Age transition to 20 cents.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four Vol. 8 (TPB) and Vol. 11 (Hardcover); a Mark Jewelers advertisement insert variant also exists.
The normal letters page was replaced by a full-page color advertisement previewing Conan #10 and Marvel Feature #1 (the debut of the Defenders).
The Eternals of Eyung depicted here have no connection to Jack Kirby's Eternals of Earth introduced in Eternals #1 (1976); subsequent handbooks renamed them 'Eternians' and later 'Eternals of Eyung' to resolve the naming conflict.