What If? #21 [Newsstand]

(June 1980)

Decline and Fall!; (What If... Sub-Mariner Had Married the Invisible Girl? chapter 1) (Table of Contents: 1)

Fantastic Four; Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Bob Wiacek

Colors

Carl Gafford

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

Job Number

LF-641

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I am the Watcher! Behold a familiar sight...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Atlanteans; the Awesome Android (flashback); Lady Dorma; Dr. Doom (flashback); the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; the Thing] (also in flashback); the Invisible Girl (also in flashback); Warlord Krang; the Mad Thinker (flashback); the Red Ghost (flashback); the Sub-Mariner (also in flashback); the Super-Skrull; the Watcher

Reprints

• in Star Magazine (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #7 [Italy]
• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #4
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #47 (10 décembre 1983)
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)

The Trap (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Spider-Man; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

What's Wrong With This Picture? (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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

Two Against Atlantis!; (What If... Sub-Mariner Had Married the Invisible Girl? chapter 2) (Table of Contents: 4)

Fantastic Four; Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Bob Wiacek

Colors

Carl Gafford

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

First Line of Dialogue or Text

How much longer, Reed?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Atlanteans; Lady Dorma; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic]; Warlord Krang; the Sub-Mariner; Susan Storm McKenzie

Reprints

• in Star Magazine (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #7 [Italy]
• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #4
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #48 (10 janvier 1984)
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)

Harvest of Shame!; (What If... Sub-Mariner Had Married the Invisible Girl? chapter 3) (Table of Contents: 5)

Fantastic Four; Namor the Sub-Mariner / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo

Pencils

Gene Colan

Inks

Bob Wiacek; Joe Rubinstein (page 11 panel 4 (uncredited) overal story page 44)

Colors

Carl Gafford

Letters

Tom Orzechowski

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Managed to make my way past the guards to...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Atlanteans; Lady Dorma; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Mr. Fantastic]; Warlord Krang (death); the Sub-Mariner; Susan Storm McKenzie; Susan Storm McKenzie and the Sub-Mariner's newborn son; the Watcher

Reprints

• in Star Magazine (Edizioni Star Comics, 1990 series) #7 [Italy]
• in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #4
• in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #48 (10 janvier 1984)
• in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #2 (2019)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Why Not? / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Mark Gruenwald

Pencils

Gene Colan (illustration)

Inks

Syd Shores (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters on What If? #18 from Mark Zutkoff, Leighton Ku, and Roy Veldboomand and suggestions for future story titles . Includes "The Watcher Knows..," a column answering Marvel Universe continuity questions.

The Dingo Kids Meet O.J. Simpson (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

O.J. Simpson; Dingo / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)