Fantastic Four
#194
[Regular Edition]
(May 1978)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-02-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860246205
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Doomed by Diablo!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
George Perez) - Inks
- George Pérez (signed as George Perez)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Danny Crespi
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Darkoth [Desmond Pitt]; Diablo [Esteban Corazón de Ablo] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Four (Yaffa / Page, 1979 ? series) #194 -
in I Fantastici Quattro (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #220 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #83/84 (Juin 1978) -
in Atlantic special (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #10 (1979) [retuscherat / edited] -
in Atlantic Special [Atlantic Spesial] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #10 (1979) [edited] -
in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #3 (1979) -
in Fantastic Four: The Overthrow of Doom (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011) - in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #9 ([August] 2013) [black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Cover lettering by Danny Crespi confirmed by Todd Klein via The Danny Crespi Files posting on his Facebook page, 27 April 2018.
![Cover Thumbnail for Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #194 [Regular Edition]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/22/w200/22060.jpg?-5820598754190303051)
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Vengeance Is Mine!
Fantastic Four / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Len Wein (credited as Wein) (plot); Keith Pollard (credited as Pollard) (plot); Bill Mantlo (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Keith Pollard (credited) (breadowns); Dave Hunt (finished art)
- Inks
- Dave Hunt (credited)
- Colors
- George Roussos (credited)
- Letters
- Annette Kawecki (credited)
- Job Number
- C-719
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four: Invisible Girl [Susan Storm Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
Darkoth [Desmond Pitt] (death); Diablo [Esteban Corazón de Ablo]; Agatha Harkness; Impossible Man; Alicia Masters; Namor the Sub-Mariner (cameo) (unidentified); Franklin Richards - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Thing looks to stop Diablo and Darkoth, leading to a knockdown, drag-out fight between Ben and Darkoth. With his final breath, Darkoth reveals who he really is to Ben and then sacrifices himself to stop Diablo.
- Reprints
- in Atlanticserien (Atlantic Förlags AB, 1978 series) #1/1979 [2 sidor bortredigerade]
- in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #83/84 (Juin 1978)
- in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #3 (1979)
- in Atlantic-serien [Fantastiske Fire] (Atlantic Forlag, 1978 series) #1/1979 ([januar] 1979) [minus pages 7 and 9]
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #82 (5 novembre 1984) [Moins/Minus 2 pages] - in Fantastic Four: The Overthrow of Doom (Marvel, 2011 series) (2011)
- in Essential Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series) #9 ([August] 2013) [black and white]
-
- Keywords
- California; Death Valley; Hollywood; Imperial Studios; Nevada; Solar Cannon; Terra Verde
[no title indexed]
Baxter Building Bulletins / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters from Kam Kontos, Chuck Mabry, Burt Glass, Chester Mosher.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Doomed by Diablo!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Vengeance Is Mine!
Fantastic Four -
2.
[no title indexed]
Baxter Building Bulletins -
3.
["Well, there I was a few weeks ago..."]
Bullpen Bulletins -
4.
Thor Meets a Glutton for Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Thor
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Del Gruber
- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Steven Tice
- Gregg Whitmore
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