Fantastic Four #183 [30¢]

(June 1977)

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

Fantastic Four / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Mantlo (credited) (script); Jim Shooter (plot); Roger Stern (plot); Ralph Macchio (plot); Len Wein (plot); Roger Slifer (plot)

Pencils

Sal Buscema (credited) (breakdowns); Joe Sinnott (finished art)

Inks

Joe Sinnott (credited)

Colors

Phil Rachelson (credited as Phil Rache)

Letters

Gaspar Saladino (credited as Gaspar)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tigra -- look!

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)
Annihilus (also in flashback); Brute [Reed Richards]; Impossible Man; Mad Thinker; Scavenger (also in flashback); Thundra (Femizonia - Earth-715); Tigra [Greer Nelson]; unnammed Borers

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #12/1978 [3 sidor bortredigerade]
• in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #71/72 (Juin 1977)
• in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #11/1978 ([november] 1978) [3 pages + 2 panels], #12/1978 ([desember] 1978) [edited]
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #77 (5 juin 1984)
• 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; Manhattan; Midtown; Negative Zone; New York City

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Baxter Building Bulletins / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Archie Goodwin ?

Pencils

? (illustration)

Inks

? (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

And Then Along Came (Original) Joe's -- The Story Behind the Story

Characters

Captain Marvel

Indexer Notes

Letters from Marveriter and Matthew Kreps; includes description of how this issue was written; house ad for Captain Marvel series.

Zounds! A Zealful Zetetic of Zestful Zanies to Zap the Zeitgeist! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Stan Lee (signed as Stan); ?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hang onto your hats, heroes, 'cause...

Feature Logo

Marvel Bullpen Bulletins [times three]

Characters

Godzilla

Indexer Notes

Stan Lee's Soapbox; Items.

Captain America and the Sore Sir's Apprentices (Table of Contents: 4)

Captain America; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sal Buscema

Inks

Frank Giacoia ?

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A strange turn of fate has...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Sore Sir's Apprentices

Reprints

• from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #16 (May 1977 - June 1977)