Script: Stan Lee
Art: Jack Kirby
Inking: Dick Ayers
Lettering: Art Simek
This landmark 201st post features a lovely image of the three currently-visible members of the team running towards the camera, with a catchphrase used to unite the team. You could easily replace Reed, Ben and Johnny with Thor, Cap and Iron Man, Flame On substituted for Avengers Assemble. It's a wonderfully iconic shot, one that would surely have been given greater prominence a few years down the road, where the pacing of the stories over multiple issues allowed Kirby to let moments like this shine in the form of a half-page panel.
The three members of the Four are charging to beat up Doctor Doom, although the fact that it's page 21 of a 22 page comic suggests that either the fight will be brief, or Doom will make an improbably easy escape. As it's the first part of the title's first two-part story, my money's on the latter.
And as for Sue... she's busy freeing Ant-Man.
Check out our coverage of Fantastic Four #16 on our fourteenth episode: The Return of Doctor Doom
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