Fantastic Four #258 [Newsstand]
(September 1983)

Marvel, 1961 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-06-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860246209
Editing
Carl Potts (editor); Ann Nocenti (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #26, with shipping date of 1983-05-24.
This issue is a variant of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #258 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
Jim Novak

Genre
superhero
Characters
Doctor Doom
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Splash page lettering by Jim Novak shows through the "tear" in the cover, which has no actual lettering of its own.

Scottie in A Cracker Jack Story [Baseball] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Interlude (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
John Byrne (credited)
Pencils
John Byrne (credited)
Inks
John Byrne (credited)
Colors
Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
Letters
Jim Novak (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The time is several months ago.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Doctor Doom; Kristoff; Hauptmann (death); Tyros [Terrax]; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (cameo); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (cameo); Galactus (cameo flashback)
Synopsis
Doom reviews Latveria and re-imbues Tyros with the power cosmic.
Reprints
Keywords
Latveria

Indexer Notes

The Fantastic Four do not appear in this story.

Star Frontiers (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Star Frontiers; TSR / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Christine Johnson, Robbie Aromatorio, Stu Krull, Mike Atkins, Mark Waldman, Sean Fagan, Stephen Gawronski, Keith McCaffety, and Joey Shalack; announcement of Sue Storm coiffure contest.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Fantastic Four
  2. 1. Scottie in A Cracker Jack Story [Baseball]
    Cracker Jack
  3. 2. Interlude
    Fantastic Four
  4. 3. Star Frontiers
    Star Frontiers; TSR
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Fantastic 4 Fan Page
This issue was modified by
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ramon Schenk