What If? #20 [Newsstand]

(April 1980)

What If the Avengers Had Fought the Kree-Skrull War Without Rick Jones? (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Tom DeFalco

Pencils

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

Inks

Bruce Patterson

Colors

Carl Gafford (credited as Carl G.)

Letters

Tom Orzechowski (credited as Tom Orz) (pages 2-35); Rick Parker ? (splash)

Job Number

LF-829

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am the Watcher! My sacred trust is to observe and chronicle...

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver; the Scarlet Witch; Thor [Don Blake]; the Vision]; Balder; the Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]; the Blazing Skull (simulacrum, flashback); Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; the Black Panther [T'Challa]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; 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 [Bruce Banner]; the Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (simulacrum, flashback); the Angel [Thomas Halloway] (simulacrum, flashback); Inhumans [Black Bolt; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa; Triton]; the Sub-Mariner; Kree; Nick Fury; Odin; Princess Anelle (Skrull); Rick Jones (death); Ronan the Accuser (death); Sif; Skrulls; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; the Sub-Mariner (simulacrum, flashback); the Super-Skrull (death); the Supreme Intelligence [Supremor]; the Vision [Aarkus] (simulacrum, flashback); Captain America [Steve Rogers] (simulacrum, flashback); the Warriors Three [Hogun; Fandral; Volstagg]; the Watcher; the X-Men [Angel; the Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl; Professor X]; Bun-Dall; Commander Klaxor; Arellio; Silver Surfer

Reprints

• in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #7
• in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #2 - Chaos sidéral (4ème trimestre 1980)
• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #3 (2006)
• in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #122 - Marvel: Что Если?
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)

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: 2)

The Human Torch; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sal Buscema

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

Irv Watanabe

Editing

?

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: 3)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Ron Zalme (signed)

Inks

Ron Zalme (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Editing

?

Genre

humor

Indexer Notes

Comics promo for the Marvel Comics subscription service.

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

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

Script

Mark Gruenwald ?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)

Indexer Notes

Letters on What If? #16 and 17. Includes letters from Kevin J. Dooley, Roy Valdboom, Michael Samerdyke, Roger Schoolcraft, John Bell, and Louis Bank.

U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required By 39 U.S.C. 3685) (Table of Contents: 5)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

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.