Fantastic Four #239 [Direct]

(February 1982)

Scottie in A Cracker Jack Story (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Cracker Jack / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Wendy's Friends (Table of Contents: 2)

Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

John Byrne (credited)

Pencils

John Byrne

Inks

John Byrne

Colors

Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)

Letters

Jim Novak (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tuesday, November 17th. 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]]; Aunt Petunia Grimm (introduction); O'Hoolihan; Frankie Raye; Alicia Masters; Uncle Jake Grimm; Ruth Efford (introduction); Wendy (introduction); Mike (introduction, death?); Carol (introduction, death?); Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff] (cameo); Crystal (cameo); Lockjaw (cameo); Wendy's father (introduction); "Wendy's friends" (introduction)

Synopsis

At the request of the Thing's great aunt Petunia (actually young and pretty Petunia), the Fantastic Four investigate a town where a little girl has befriended strange demonic creatures.

Reprints

• in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #12
• in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #129/130 (mars 1982)
• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #105 (5 octobre 1986)
• in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #11 (Agosto 1989)
• in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #[1] (November 2001)
• in Coleccionable Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #3 (Febrero 2002)
• in Best of Marvel : Fantastic Four - Retour aux sources (Panini France, 2005 series) ([juillet] 2005)
• in Fantastic Four: Tilbake til start [Alle Tiders Superhelter] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) ([oktober] 2005)
• in Coleccionable Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2010 series) #14 - Los 4 Fantásticos: Vuelta a los Orígenes (Febrero 2010)
• 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 Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #21 (2019)

Keywords

Arizona

Play the Bubble Yum Sweepstakes (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Bubble Yum / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[Evil Goblins] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

A "Dungeons & Dragons" Adventure! / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[Time for a New Image] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Daredevil's Longest Fight! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Daredevil; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Mr. Byrne, I have just finished...

Feature Logo

Fantastic Four Fan Page

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from readers Kerry Callen, John A. Wilcox, Paul R. Davis, Alice Gordon, Jim Gibney, Anonymous and John Sweeney.