Fantastic Four
#157
(April 1975)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-01-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the Comic Reader #114.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Carnage at Castle Latveria!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed as
BUCKLER) - Inks
- Joe Sinnott (signed as Sinnott)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Doomsman II; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in The Complete Fantastic Four (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #24 -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #167 -
in De Fantastiske Fire (Winthers Forlag, 1978 series) #4 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #46 (Mars 1975) -
in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978) [cover] -
in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978) -
in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - The Crusader Syndrome (2023)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (1961 series) #157 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1070/w100/1070867.jpg?8716373413594190402)
And Now-- The End Game Cometh!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Sinnott (credited)
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg (credited as P. Goldberg)
- Letters
- Joe Rosen (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've had it! From now on, you three can fight Doc Doom...
- Feature Logo
Stan Lee Presents: The Fantastic Four!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Human Torch [Johnny Storm] (also in flashback); Medusa [Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon] (also in flashback); Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (also in flashback); The Thing [Ben Grimm] (also in flashback)
Doomsman II (villain, introduction, origin, destruction); Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom] (villain) (also in flashback); Mephisto (villain); Shalla-Bal (also in flashback, false name Helena); Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd] (also in flashback); Daedalus - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
- in The Complete Fantastic Four (Marvel UK, 1977 series) #24
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #46 (Mars 1975)
- in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978)
- in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #4/1978 ([april] 1978)
- in Fantastic Four/Silver Surfer Summer Special (Marvel UK, 1982 series) (1982) [Pages 4-8, 10-19]
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #65 (5 juin 1983) - in Fantastic Four Epic Collection (Marvel, 2014 series) #9 - The Crusader Syndrome (2023)
-
Indexer Notes
Story in two parts: "Part One: Check..." (eight pages) and "Chapter II Zugzwang!" (eleven pages).
Another Assortment of Action-Packed Ad-Libs and Astonishing Addendums!
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Carnage at Castle Latveria!
Fantastic Four -
1.
And Now-- The End Game Cometh!
Fantastic Four -
2.
Another Assortment of Action-Packed Ad-Libs and Astonishing Addendums!
Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Michael Hoskin
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Darrel McCann
- Derek Reinhard
- Steven Tice
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