| 1Shot: | y |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Date: | 1967 |
| Issues: | 1 |
| Main Char Team: | Fantastic Four, Spider-Man |
| Writers: | Stan Lee |
| Artists: | Jack Kirby, Paul Reinman Dick Ayers, John Romita Sr. |
| Subcat: | Marvel Comics |
| Sort: | America's Best TV Comics |
America's Best TV Comics is a one-shot American comic book packaged by Marvel Comics' parent company in mid-1967 in conjunction with the ABC television network to promote the network's Saturday morning cartoon lineup.
Marvel Comics, which occasionally packaged sponsored comics, created this 68-page comic book in 1967 for the ABC television network to promote the network's Saturday morning cartoon lineup. The formal credit in the comic's indicia is for Marvel's parent company, Magazine Management. The indicia also specifies, "Distributed nationally by the Independent News Company," which distributed Marvel Comics at the time. The copyright is held by ABC.[1] Bearing a cover price of 25¢ and also distributed via mail-order,[2] it features the Marvel characters the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, who were debuting in half-hour animated series that fall, as well as stories based on the upcoming animated series Journey to the Center of the Earth, The King Kong Show, George of the Jungle, and Casper the Friendly Ghost. The ABC cartoon block, which also included the series The Beatles, ran Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The main cover image of the Fantastic Four's Mr. Fantastic was penciled either by Jack Kirby or Larry Lieber mimicking Kirby's style, and possibly inked by either Frank Giacoia[3] or Joe Sinnott[4] (sources differ). All were Marvel Comics regulars. The image of the Fantastic Four in the top right-hand box is a partial reproduction of the Kirby-Sinnott cover of Fantastic Four #49 (April 1966).
The stories, in order, are:
The comic also includes single-page ads for some ABC primetime series, with that of Cowboy in Africa and The Flying Nun penciled by John Tartaglione, and a combined ad for Custer and Batman pencilled by George Tuska.[6]