What If?
#1
(February 1977)
Marvel,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-11-09
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860268602
- Editing
- Roy Thomas
Issue Notes
House advertisements that appeared in various Marvel titles dated February 1977 lists the on sale date as November 11 (1976).
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
What If Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four?
Fantastic Four; Spider-Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Buscema; John Romita (see notes)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott; John Romita (see notes)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing
- Reprints
-
in Die Spinne Comic - Album (Condor, 1979 series) #13 -
in What If? (Yaffa / Page, 1980 ? series) - in What If (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #1 (1977)
-
in 3.D Man, Spider-Man et les 4 Fantastiques (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) (1er trimestre 1981) which is reprinted - in Les Défenseurs (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #1 (1er trimestre 1981)
- in Les Micronautes (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #2 - La grande chasse (premier trimestre 1981)
- in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #3 - Les Vengeurs contre le Sinistre Escadron (1er trimestre 1981)
- in Green Lantern (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #35 (mai 1981)
-
in Marvel Age (Marvel, 1983 series) #65 (August 1988) [recolored, reduced to 20%] - in Spider-Man Family (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (August 2007)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #3 (2012)
- in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #122 - Marvel: Что Если?, #122 - Marvel: Что Если? - in True Believers: Fantastic Four - What If? (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
- in What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (2021) [new trade dress]
-
Indexer Notes
Alterations on Spider-Man, Reed, and Sue by John Romita. Info per Nick Caputo, October 2012.
What if Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four?
Fantastic Four; Spider-Man / comic story / 33 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Jim Craig
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos
- Colors
- Janice Cohen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I am the Watcher. Since time out of mind...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man; Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Thing; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Watcher; Aunt May Parker; J. Jonah Jameson; Chameleon; Sub-Mariner; Vulture; Red Ghost; Puppet Master; Killraven (cameo); Invaders [Captain America; Bucky; Namor; Human Torch; Toro] (cameo); Squadron Supreme [Hyperion; Golden Archer; Dr. Spectrum; Whizzer; Lady Lark] (cameo); Avengers [Scarlet Witch; Vision; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Beast] (cameo); Deathlok (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Spider-Man becomes a member of the Fantastic Four.
- Reprints
- in Die Spinne Comic - Album (Condor, 1979 series) #13
- in What If (Yaffa / Page, 1977 series) #1 (1977)
-
in L'Uomo Ragno [Collana Super-Eroi] (Editoriale Corno, 1970 series) #200 (29 Dicembre 1977) - in 3.D Man, Spider-Man et les 4 Fantastiques (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) (1er trimestre 1981)
- in Spidey (Editions Lug, 1979 series) #33 (10 octobre 1982) [Pages 1-17], #34 (10 novembre 1982) [Pages 18-33]
- in Best of What If (Marvel, 1991 series) (November 1991)
- in What If? Classic (Marvel, 2004 series) #1 ([December] 2004)
- in Spider-Man Family (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 (August 2007)
- in Marvel Firsts: The 1970s (Marvel, 2011 series) #3 (2012)
- in What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
- in Marvel. Официальная коллекция комиксов (Ашет Коллекция [Hachette], 2014 series) #122 - Marvel: Что Если?
- in True Believers: Fantastic Four - What If? (Marvel, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
-
The Incredible Hulk and the Green Thumb
Hulk; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk [Bruce Banner]
- Reprints
- from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #12 (January 1977 - February 1977)
-
Indexer Notes
Hostess Fruit Pie Ad
Spider-Man and Captain America: Richochet for Freedom
Captain America; Spider-Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Indexer Notes
Ad for Richochet Racers.
[no title indexed]
Why Not? / letters page / 2 pages
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing]; Watcher
- Synopsis
- Thomas discusses how the title came about.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
What If Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four?
Fantastic Four; Spider-Man -
1.
What if Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four?
Fantastic Four; Spider-Man -
2.
The Incredible Hulk and the Green Thumb
Hulk; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
Spider-Man and Captain America: Richochet for Freedom
Captain America; Spider-Man -
4.
[no title indexed]
Why Not?
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Mark Boyer
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Dasinger
- Merlin Haas
- Ralf Haring
- James Ludwig
- Lou Mazzella
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Richard Rider
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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