Fantastic Four
#291
[Direct]
(June 1986)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1986-02-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel 25th Anniversary
- Editing
- Mike Carlin (credited as Michael Carlin) (editor); Michael Higgins (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #88.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Invisible Woman [Sue Storm Richards]; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]
- Reprints
-
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #66 (15 Aprile 1992) -
in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
-
- Keywords
- automobiles; time travel
Indexer Notes
Cover is an homage to Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1.
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The Times They Are A'Changing!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited)
- Inks
- P. Craig Russell (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited)
- Letters
- John Workman (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Greenwich Village, New York.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Invisible Woman [Sue Storm Richards]; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Nick Fury; Alicia Masters; Licorice Calhoun; S.H.I.E.L.D.; Mr. Fantastic (cameo flashback); The Thing (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- The Fantastic Four and Fury find themselves in 1936 but time keeps rippling to the present. She-Hulk saves Licorice Calhoun from some goons and Nick flies off to Germany to kill Hitler.
- Reprints
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #20 ([1987]) -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #131 (décembre 1988) - in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #66 (15 Aprile 1992)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
-
The Bullpen Christmas Party...
Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Jim Shooter (signed); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Forum / letters page / 0.7 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Malcolm Bourne, Elvis Orten, Lawrence Punch, Danny Goldman, Stephen Sanderson, John Brittan, DJEM.
[Statement of Ownership]
statement of ownership / 0.3 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Total Number Copies Printed (net press run): Average number of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 431,493. Single issue nearest to filing date: 451,662.
[no title indexed]
Star Wars Droids / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Romita (signed)
- Inks
- John Romita (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- children; science fiction
- Characters
- R2D2; C-3PO
Indexer Notes
Ad for the comic series on the inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Four -
1.
The Times They Are A'Changing!
Fantastic Four -
2.
The Bullpen Christmas Party...
Bullpen Bulletins -
3.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic Forum -
4.
[Statement of Ownership]
-
5.
[no title indexed]
Star Wars Droids
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