Fantastic Four #266 [Newsstand]
(May 1984)

Marvel, 1961 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-02-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Barcode
0714860246205
Editing
Bob Budiansky (editor); Michael Higgins (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #40, with shipping date of 1984-01-24.
This issue is a variant of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #266 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Karisma Commands... ...Death to the Invisible Girl! (Table of Contents)

Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
superhero
Characters
Fantastic Four [Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Karisma
Reprints

Call Her... Karisma! (Table of Contents: 1)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne (credited)
Pencils
John Byrne (credited) (pages 1, 2, 22); Kerry Gammill (credited) (pages 3-21)
Inks
John Byrne (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Diana Albers (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Somehow this isn't quite what I'd expected from my first day as...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards] (flashback); She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; The Thing [Ben Grimm] (flashback)]; Alicia Masters; Walter Langkowski [Sasquatch]; Michael Morbius; Bruce Banner [Hulk]; Karisma (villain, flashback)
Synopsis
In a flashback story told by Alicia to Jennifer, Invisible Woman battles a Karisma-controlled Thing. Reed gathers specialists to try and help with Sue's delicate medical condition.
Reprints
Keywords
mind control

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Fantastic Four Fan Page / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from J. R. Supre, Shaun Smith, Gary Gordon, Chris St. Germain, Randy Cohen, Eric Wagner, and Thomas Curtiss; An Important Announcement on readers who figured out the secret of Fantastic Four #260.

Special 1984 Low Price Offer (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Marvel Subscriptions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Karisma Commands... ...Death to the Invisible Girl!
    Fantastic Four
  2. 1. Call Her... Karisma!
    Fantastic Four
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Fantastic Four Fan Page
  5. 4. Special 1984 Low Price Offer
    Marvel Subscriptions
This issue was modified by
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk