Fantastic Four
#23
[Newsstand Edition $2.49 Cover Price]
(November 1999)
Marvel,
1998 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 2.49 USD
- Pages
- 46
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics
- Barcode
- 071486024620 11
- Editing
- Bobbie Chase (editor); Brian Smith (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #23 [Direct Edition].
There exist further variants:
Chaos at a Comic Con!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mad Thinker's Awesome Android; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Woman [Sue Storm Richards]]; Marvel Girl [Valeria von Doom]; Chris Claremont; Salvador Larroca
- Reprints
in 
in Indexer Notes
Art Thibert credit from the French reprint of this cover which is signed by both artists. Here, the signatures are hidden by the "chaos comic con" blurb.
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1998 series) #23 [Direct Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/62/w100/62185.jpg?-2920952442895739676)
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1998 series) #23 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1112/w100/1112606.jpg?-1289905867882220869)
Skull Session
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Chris Claremont
- Pencils
- Salvador Larroca
- Inks
- Art Thibert
- Colors
- Liquid!
- Letters
- Richard Starkings; Comicraft
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Woman [Sue Storm Richards]]; Franklin Richards; Caledonia; Puppy; Marvel Girl [Valeria von Doom]; The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers] (guest-star); Firestar (guest-star); Justice (guest-star); Scarlet Witch (guest-star); Thor (guest-star); Wonder Man (guest-star)]; Red Skull (villain); Mad Thinker (villain); Daredevil (guest-star); Namorita (guest-star); She-Hulk (guest-star); Chris Claremont (guest-star); Salvador Larroca (guest-star); Art Thibert (guest-star)
- Synopsis
- Valeria makes herself at home in Reed's lab. The Fantastic Four trace the villains to the San Diego Comic Convention. The Avengers (under influence) attack them. The real villains are the Red Skull and the Mad Thinker, who escape with SHIELD's Helicarrier.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Helicarrier; San Diego Comic Con
Indexer Notes
Part 2 of 2. This story was published shortly after the 1999 San Diego Comic Con. The Fantastic Four appear next in the Fantastic Four 2000 Annual. First appearance of Valeria's room, which suddenly appears in the Fantastic Four's headquarters out of nowhere.
Media Blitz!
Spider-Man / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Glenn Herdling
- Pencils
- Gregg Schigiel
- Inks
- Richard Case
- Colors
- Paul Mounts
- Letters
- Chris Dickey
- Editing
- Michael Stewart; Steve Behling
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Mysterio; J. Jonah Jameson; Sam Exmore; Toni Harris
Indexer Notes
"Fast Lane" part 1 of 4. A "bonus insert" placed inside a number of Marvel comics published that month.
Bullpen Bits #17
Bullpen Bits / comic story / 0.25 page
- Script
- Chris Giarrusso; ?
- Pencils
- Chris Giarrusso (signed)
- Inks
- Chris Giarrusso (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Comicraft; Richard Starkings; Eric Eng Wong; typeset
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Hawkeye; Thor; Storm; Professor X; Storm
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Shahid Haque, Franklin Taft, Sherlon Martis, Ken Morris, Patrick Dentinho.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Chaos at a Comic Con!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Skull Session
Fantastic Four -
2.
Media Blitz!
Spider-Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
Bullpen Bits #17
Bullpen Bits -
5.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four Fan Page
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