Fantastic Four #130 [Regular Edition]

(January 1973)

Battleground: The Baxter Building! (Table of Contents: 1)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

John Buscema (credited)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Colors

Petra Goldberg (credited)

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

Job Number

1160 Z

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Frightful Four -- on the brink of total triumph!

Feature Logo

Stan Lee Presents: The Fantastic Four!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Fantastic Four: Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards] (quits the team); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Frightful Four: Sandman [Flint Marko] (villain); Thundra (Femizonia - Earth-715) (villain); Trapster [Peter Petruski] (villain); Wingless Wizard [Bentley Wittman] (villain)
The Inhumans: Black Bolt [Blackagar Boltagon]; Crystal [Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff]; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]; Triton
Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Franklin Richards

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #19 (Décembre 1972)
• in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #128 (2 Marzo 1976)
• in Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK, 1976 series) #237 (24 August 1977) [pages 1-6, black and white], #238 (31 August 1977) [pages 7-13 plus new splash page, black and white, original title "Battleground: The Baxter Building"], #239 (7 September 1977) [pages 14-20 plus new splash page, black and white, original title "Battleground: The Baxter Building"]
• in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #12/1979 [5 sidor bortredigerade]
• in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #12/1979 ([desember] 1979) [minus 5 pages]
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #39 (10 avril 1981)
• in Die Fantastischen Vier (Panini Deutschland, 1999 series) #130 (1998), #130 (1998)
• in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #6 (2007) [black and white]
• in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #8 - Annihilus Revealed (2022)

Indexer Notes

Sue Richards temporarily leaves the FF and Medusa replaces her.

Irrelevant Info and Inane Items, Illustrated and Inscribed by an Infinite Number of Monkeys! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the last issue of Fantastic Four, we presented...

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Willard F. Greenwood Jr., John Camilleri, Larry Brnicky, The Gremlin, Charles Meyerson, Gary Kimber, Rick Thomas, Mark M. Thomase, and Jerry Jones; opening and closing notes from Roy Thomas (?). Letter column response reveals that it was Roy Thomas who suggested putting "Stan Lee Presents" on page one, following Stan's departure as scripter of the Fantastic Four. "Stan Lee Presents" first appears in FF #126.

Monsters! Madness! and Mirth! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Monster Madness / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page (report information)