What If? #20 [Newsstand Edition]

(April 1980)

What If the Avengers Had Fought the Kree-Skrull War Without Rick Jones? (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / comic story / 35 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Tom DeFalco

Pencils:

Sal Buscema (pages 1-3, uncredited); Alan Kupperberg (layouts, pages 4-35)

Inks:

Bruce Patterson

Colors:

Carl Gafford

Letters:

Gaspar Saladino (page 1, uncredited); Tom Orzechowski (pages 2-35)

Content Information

Genre:

superhero; science fiction

Characters:

the Angel [Thomas Halloway] (simulacrum, flashback); the Avengers [the Black Panther; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver; the Scarlet Witch; Thor; the Vision]; Balder; the Black Widow; the Blazing Skull (simulacrum, flashback); Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Daredevil; Dr. Doom; Dr. Strange; Dum Dum Dugan; Emperor Dorrek VII (Skrull); the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic; the Thing]; the Fin (simulacrum, flashback); the Hulk; the Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (simulacrum, flashback); Inhumans [Black Bolt; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa; Triton]; Kree; Nick Fury; Odin; Princess Anelle (Skrull); Rick Jones; Ronan the Accuser; Sif; Skrulls; Spider-Man; the Sub-Mariner; the Super-Skrull; the Supreme Intelligence; the Vision [Aarkus] (simulacrum, flashback); the Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]; the Watcher; the X-Men [Angel; the Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X]

Reprints:

• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #3

Indexer Notes

Based on the Kree-Skrull War in The Avengers #89-91. Art credits from Alan Kupperberg through Daniel Best via the GCD Error List (January 3rd, 2007).

A Hot Time in the Old Town (Table of Contents)

The Human Torch; Hostess Twinkies / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Sal Buscema

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

Irving Watanabe

Editing:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Flame Thrower; the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]

Indexer Notes

Comics ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Company.

What's Wrong With This Picture? (Table of Contents)

Marvel Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ron Zalme (signed)

Inks:

Ron Zalme (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Editing:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

Comics promo for the Marvel Comics subscription service.

Why Not? (Table of Contents)

Why Not? / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

various; Kevin Dooley [as Kevin J. Dooley]

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on What If? #16 and 17.

U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required By 39 U.S.C. 3685) (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Shukin

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Average number of copies of each issue during the previous year: 135,381. Single issue nearest to filing date: 146,653.