Fantastic Four
#172
[British]
(July 1976)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel All-Colour Comics
- Barcode
- 0714860246207
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #172 [Regular Edition].
There exist further variants:
Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Destroyer - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #187 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #61 (Juin 1976) -
in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #8 ([July] 2010) [black and white] - in Fantastic Four: Crusaders and Titans (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #16 (2014)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #172 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1070/w200/1070876.jpg?-284792625832951741)
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1961 series) #172 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/22/w100/22038.jpg?-7528403638780196017)
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1961 series) #172 [30¢]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1675/w100/1675180.jpg?868544916839503316)
Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited) (plot); Bill Mantlo (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- George Pérez (credited as George Perez)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg (credited as Petra G.)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- Job Number
- JV373
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Forget the fact that the being shackled...
- Feature Logo
Stan Lee Presents: The Fantastic Four!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (featured); Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (featured); Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards] (featured); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (featured)
Destroyer (villain); Galactus [Galan] (villain); Gorr; High Evolutionary [Herbert Edgar Wyndham]; Hulk [Bruce Banner] (flashback); Man-Beast (flashback); Adam Warlock (flashback) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The golden ape Gorr brings the Fantastic Four to Counter Earth where they try to fight off the Destroyer before he calls Galactus to feed. They fail and the world eater shows up.
- Reprints
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #61 (Juin 1976)
-
in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #8/1978 ([augusti] 1978) -
in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #8/1978 ([august] 1978) [minus 3 pages] -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #6 ([1982]) -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #72 (5 janvier 1984) - in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #8 ([July] 2010) [black and white]
- in Fantastic Four: Crusaders and Titans (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #16 (2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Re-introduction of Galactus. He is the villain until #176. The High Evolutionary also plays a central role.
An Omnium-Gatherum of Odysseys Occult, Olios, and Occasions Obbligato!
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page
Captain America and The Red Skull
Captain America; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Eagle-Eye GI Joe Meets the Interuder Strongman from Another World
G.I. Joe / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!
Fantastic Four -
2.
[no title indexed]
Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
An Omnium-Gatherum of Odysseys Occult, Olios, and Occasions Obbligato!
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
Captain America and The Red Skull
Captain America; Hostess Twinkies -
5.
Eagle-Eye GI Joe Meets the Interuder Strongman from Another World
G.I. Joe
This issue was modified by
- David Bruce
- Derek Reinhard
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.