Fantastic Four
#245
[Direct]
(August 1982)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-05-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited) (editor); Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #11.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Childhood's End!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed as
John Byrne) - Inks
- John Byrne (signed as John Byrne)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Rick Parker ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #36 (1982) -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #135/136 (septembre 1982) -
in Fantastic Four (Federal, 1983 series) #3 ([September] 1984) -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #27 (Abril 1985) -
in Spindelmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1985 ([september] 1985) -
in Edderkoppen (Interpresse, 1984 series) #9/1985 (uge 36 1985) -
in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1985 (uke 38 1985) [original] -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #17 (Febbraio 1990) -
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #208 (Abril 9 de 1992) - in Coleccionable Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #5 (Febrero 2002), #5 (Febrero 2002)
-
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 ([June] 2004) - in Fantastic Four: A Death in the Family (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (July 2006)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
- in Artist's Edition (IDW, 2010 series) #[12] - John Byrne’s Fantastic Four
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #59 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 1 (Marzo 2015)
- in True Believers: King in Black - Franklin Richards (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (January 2021), #1 (January 2021)
-
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Childhood's End
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited)
- Inks
- John Byrne (credited)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- Jim Novak (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello from New York City.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]] (origin); Barbara Walker; Franklin Richards (as child and adult); Alicia Masters; HERBIE-like robot
- Synopsis
- Franklin Richards' powers go out of control as he transforms into an adult and tries to make things the way he thinks they should be. The Thing is returned to his rocky form.
- Reprints
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #13 - in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #135/136 (septembre 1982)
- in Fantastic Four (Federal, 1983 series) #3 ([September] 1984)
- in Spindelmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1985 ([september] 1985)
- in Edderkoppen (Interpresse, 1984 series) #9/1985 (uge 36 1985)
- in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1985 (uke 38 1985)
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #108 (5 janvier 1987) - in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #17 (Febbraio 1990)
- in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #208 (Abril 9 de 1992)
- in Coleccionable Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #5 (Febrero 2002)
- in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 ([June] 2004)
- in Fantastic Four: A Death in the Family (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (July 2006)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #59 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 1 (Marzo 2015)
- in True Believers: King in Black - Franklin Richards (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 (January 2021)
-
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear John, I am really, really impressed with the...
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Mark Waldman, Michele Cohen, Steve Elliot, Steve Thurman, Jeffrey Lowndes, and Joe Gardner.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Childhood's End!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Look Like A Big League Player
Cracker Jack -
2.
Childhood's End
Fantastic Four -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
4.
["Dear John, I am really, really impressed with the..."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page -
5.
[The Black Swamp of Lobella]
A "Dungeons & Dragons" Adventure!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Steve Coates
- Ruben Cortes
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Matthias Hofmann
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Steffen Nyeland
- Stéphane PETIT
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
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