Fantastic Four
#178
[British]
(January 1977)
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
- 0714860246201
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #178 [Regular Edition].
The Showdown with the Frightful Four!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Romita (signed as R)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as S)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're tough, Thing -- but you're nothing...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Frightful Four: Brute [Reed Richards]; Sandman [Flint Marko]; Trapster [Peter Petruski]; Wingless Wizard [Bentley Wittman] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #193 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #68 (Février 1977) -
in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #10/1978 ([oktober] 1978) [cover] -
in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #10/1978 ([oktober] 1978) -
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: George Pérez (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 ([August] 2005) - in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #8 ([July] 2010) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #17 (2015)
-
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Call My Killer -- the Brute!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- George Pérez (credited as George Perez)
- Inks
- Dave Hunt (credited)
- Colors
- Dave Hunt (credited)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- 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)
Frightful Four: Brute [Reed Richards] (origin); Sandman [Flint Marko]; Trapster [Peter Petruski]; Wizard [Bentley Wittman]
Abe Beame; President Jimmy Carter (cameo); Gerald Ford (cameo); Galactus [Galan] (flashback) (cameo); High Evolutionary [Herbert Edgar Wyndham] (flashback) (cameo); Impossible Man; Ronald Reagan (cameo); Thundra (Femizonia - Earth-715); Tigra [Greer Nelson] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Origin of the Brute.
- Reprints
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #67 (Décembre 1976)
- in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #10/1978 ([oktober] 1978)
- in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #10/1978 ([oktober] 1978) [minus 2 pages]
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #75 (5 avril 1984) - in Fantastic Four Visionaries: George Pérez (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 ([August] 2005)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #8 ([July] 2010) [black and white]
- in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #17 (2015)
-
- Keywords
- Baxter Building; Cat's Head Amulet; Counter-Earth; Gracie Mansion; Negative Zone; New York City; Paste-Gun; tanks; Times Square; Upper East Side
[no title indexed]
Baxter Building Bulletins / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from William R. Wyles and Juan Iturri.
Of Ugsome Usurpers, Utopic Uncos, and Unearthly Utterances!
Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
Ricochet to Freedom!
Captain America; Ricochet Racers; Spider-Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Showdown with the Frightful Four!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Call My Killer -- the Brute!
Fantastic Four -
2.
[no title indexed]
Baxter Building Bulletins -
3.
Of Ugsome Usurpers, Utopic Uncos, and Unearthly Utterances!
Bullpen Bulletins; Items; Stan's Soapbox -
4.
The Incredible Hulk and the Green Thumb
Hostess Fruit Pies; Hulk -
5.
Ricochet to Freedom!
Captain America; Ricochet Racers; Spider-Man
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- David Bruce
- Derek Reinhard
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