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Fantastic Four #47

Name: Fantastic Four #47
Brand: Marvel
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Feb 1966 · Marvel · 0.12 USD

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“Beware the Hidden Land!”

★ 1st appearance — Maximus

About this Issue

Fantastic Four #47 is the pivotal middle chapter of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's three-part Inhumans introduction arc, delivering the first appearance of Maximus the Mad — Black Bolt's scheming, genius brother and the character who would serve as the Inhumans' perennial internal antagonist for decades. The issue also marks the debut of the Alpha Primitives, the genetically engineered labor caste whose exploitation would underpin Inhuman society's moral complexity in countless later stories. By bringing the Fantastic Four to the Great Refuge (Attilan) itself and revealing a fully realized hidden civilization complete with royal intrigue and power struggle, Lee and Kirby pushed Marvel's world-building ambitions beyond anything superhero comics had previously attempted at monthly pace. The issue also contains a house-ad teaser for Fantastic Four #48, making it the direct on-ramp to the Galactus Trilogy — one of the medium's most celebrated story sequences.

writer Stan Lee · artist Jack Kirby · inker Joe Sinnott · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Art Simek · cover Jack Kirby, Joe Sinnott

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History

Written and edited by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott, and lettered by Artie Simek, the issue carries a February 1966 cover date and was released on-sale in late 1965. It is the third installment in an uninterrupted Inhumans arc that began in issue #45, a sign of how confidently Lee and Kirby were now sustaining multi-issue serialized storytelling — a format their readership had grown to expect and reward by mid-decade. Joe Sinnott's inking, which he had taken over on the title from issue #44, gave Kirby's architecture-heavy Attilan sequences a solidity and grandeur that cemented the visual identity of Inhuman civilization.

Trivia · 9 facts

First appearance of Maximus (Maximus the Mad), Black Bolt's younger brother and the Inhumans' most recurring villain, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
First appearance of the Alpha Primitives, the genetically engineered humanoid labor caste of Inhuman society.
First appearance of the Great Refuge (Attilan), the hidden homeland of the Inhumans; the issue places it in the Andes Mountains, a geographic detail later corrected retroactively to the Himalayas.
Second appearance of Black Bolt and third group appearance of the Inhumans Royal Family (following FF #45 and #46).
The Seeker, who first appeared in FF #46, continues his role here; a then-unnamed flying Inhuman seen at Attilan's gates was later identified as Aireo in Incredible Hulk King Size Special #1.
Story title: 'Beware the Hidden Land!'; written by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott, lettered by Artie Simek; cover date February 1966.
Sue Storm (Invisible Girl) changes her hairstyle in this issue — a look she would maintain through John Byrne's run until Fantastic Four #232.
The issue's house ad previews Fantastic Four #48, 'The Coming of Galactus!', making this the immediate narrative precursor to the Galactus Trilogy.
Reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Comics #34 (1972), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four vol. 5, Fantastic Four Omnibus vol. 2, Fantastic Four Epic Collection vol. 3 ('The Coming of Galactus'), and the 2013 trade paperback Inhumans: The Origin of the Inhumans.