Fantastic Four
#231
[Direct]
(June 1981)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roger Stern (editor); Bob Budiansky (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
Per information from Roger Stern and Jim Salicrup, Stern ghost edited the issue when Salicrup was ill.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Nightmare in the Negative Zone!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bill Sienkiewicz (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Sinnott)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Stygorr
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #26 (1982) -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #3 (Dicembre 1988)
-
- Keywords
- Negative Zone
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In All the Gathered Gloom!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Doug Moench; Roger Stern (credited as Gurland)
- Pencils
- Bill Sienkiewicz (breakdowns, pages 1-28); Al Milgrom (breakdowns, page 30); Joe Sinnott (finished art); Bill Sienkiewicz (finished art); Frank Giacoia (finished art)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (pages 1-21); Bill Sienkiewicz (pages 22-28); Frank Giacoia (page 30, uncredited)
- Colors
- George Roussos
- Letters
- Jim Novak
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The interstellar menace known as the Ebon Seeker has...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Stygorr; Alicia Masters; Franklin Richards
- Reprints
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #11 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #121/122 (juillet 1981) -
in Spindelmannen (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #12/1981 (1981) -
in Edderkoppen (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #12/1981 ([1. desember] 1981) [minus pages 18, 19] - in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #26 (1982)
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #101 (5 juin 1986) - in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #3 (Dicembre 1988)
-
- Keywords
- Negative Zone
Indexer Notes
Per information from Jim Salicrup and Roger Stern, it was Stern who did some rewriting as "Gurland" and Al Milgrom drew the last page (the credit line "moore" was a typo which was supposed to read "and more").
Additional art credits added 2005 by Steven Tice.
An Important Announcement to All New Subscribers!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Sinnott (signed as S)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as S)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Thing
The Charge of the Rhinos!
Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Somewhere near Fort Knox.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Iron Man [Tony Stark]
- Reprints
-
from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #59 (June 1981)
-
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from John Zuber Jr., S. Smith, Scott Matthews, Todd Howington, John Rogers, Steven Keel, Steve Thurman, Philip Romano, and James Timlick; also includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Nightmare in the Negative Zone!
Fantastic Four -
1.
In All the Gathered Gloom!
Fantastic Four -
2.
An Important Announcement to All New Subscribers!
-
3.
The Charge of the Rhinos!
Hostess Twinkies; Iron Man -
4.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Mike Nielsen
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Matthew Thompson
- Steven Tice
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