OK, so here's a list of all 18 episodes of the season of Fantastic Four.
Can you identify which COMIC ISSUES were the inspiration for each of these shows, based upon the title or your memory?
I've done some of the more obvious ones, but feel free to disagree or correct m assumptions.
"Fantastic 4" (18 episodes )
1.Menace of the Mole Man (9 September 1967) FF #1 or #21 or #31?
2.Diablo (16 September 1967) FF #30
3.The Way It All Began (23 September 1967) FF #1
4.Invasion of the Super Skrulls (30 September 1967) FF #18 or #32
5.KIaws (7 October 1967) FF #52-53-56
6.Prisoners of Planet X (14 October 1967) FF #9
7.It Started on Yancy Street (21 October 1967) FF #29
8.Three Predictions of Doctor Doom (28 October 1967) ????
9.Rama-Tut (9 November 1967) FF #19?
10.Demon of the Deep (11 November 1967) FF #4, 14 or 33?
11.Danger in the Depths (18 November 1967) FF #14, 27 or 33?
12.Return of the Mole Man (25 November 1967) FF #22 or 31?
13.Galactus (16 December 1967) FF# 48-49-50
14.The Micro World of Dr. Doom (30 December 1967) FF #16-17
15.Blast Starr, the Living Bomb Burst (6 January 1968) FF #62-63
16.The Mysterious Molecule Man (13 January 1968) FF#20
17.The Terrible Tribunal (14 September 1968) ?????
18.The Deadly Director (21 September 1968) Gideon? FF #34? or FF #9?
Replies
"The Terrible Tribunal" appears to be loosely inspired by X-MEN #37 / "We The Jury"
"Menace of the Mole Man" is based on "Return of the Mole Man" / FF #22
"Return of the Mole Man" is based on "The Mad Menace of the Macabre Mole Man" / FF #31
"Invasion of the Super Skrulls" is based on "A Skrull Walks Among Us" / FF #18
"Klaws" is based on "Klaw! The Murderous Master Of Sound" / FF #56
"The Red Ghost" is based on "The Red Ghost and his Super-Apes" / FF #13
(These 2 cartoons, I found out decades later, were apparelty made FIRST. Like the SPIDER-MAN cartoons, they were about 10 min. apiece, as the show was initially intended to have 2 stories per episode. But then someone thought better of it, and decided to make all the other episodes "full-length", to allow for much better writing. Ironically, SPIDER-MAN that year only had 2 full-length stories.)
"Three Predictions of Dr. Doom" was based on "Defeated By Doctor Doom" / FF #17
"Danger in the Depths" was based on "Side-by-Side With Sub-Mariner!" / FF #33