Fantastic Four
#240
[Direct]
(March 1982)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-12-15
- 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 #7.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Exodus!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ed Hannigan (sketch); John Byrne (signed as
BYRNE) - Inks
- Terry Austin (signed as
austin) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Rick Parker ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Starring the incomparable Inhumans!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Inhumans [Black Bolt; Gorgon; Karnak; Medusa]; Quicksilver
- Reprints
-
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #198 -
in Fantastic Four (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #33 -
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #11 -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #24 (Enero 1985) -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #12 (Settembre 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) [0.25 page] - 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 Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #21 (2019)
- in Les trésors de Marvel (Panini France, 2021 series) #1 (février 2021)
- in Ed Hannigan: Covered (Marvel, 2009 series) #[nn]
-
- Keywords
- Attilan
Indexer Notes
From a cover sketch by Ed Hannigan.
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Exodus
Fantastic Four / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited)
- Inks
- John Byrne (credited)
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver (credited as Glynis Wein)
- Letters
- Jim Novak (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha-Primitives; Colonel Nick Fury; Dum Dum Dugan; Fantastic Four [Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Frankie Raye; Franklin Richards; HERBIE-like robot; Inhumans [Black Bolt; Crystal; Gorgon; Karnak; Lockjaw; Maximus the Mad (flashback); Medusa; Triton]; Luna Maximoff (Quicksilver and Crystal's daughter, Introduction, unnamed); Palmer (SHIELD agent); Quicksilver; the Watcher [Uatu]
- Synopsis
- The Inhumans move their city Attilan to the Blue Area of the Moon. Quicksilver and Crystal's baby is born.
- Reprints
- in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #11
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #131/132 (mai 1982) - in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #106 (5 novembre 1986)
- in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #12 (Settembre 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 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)
- in Les trésors de Marvel (Panini France, 2021 series) #1 (février 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Set in New York, the Himalayan mountains and the Moon.
The Inhumans are experiencing an infection caused by their vulnerability to human pollution. This exposure was first discovered in Fantastic Four #105, December 1970, when the sickness struck Crystal, as she lived out of Attilan for too long.
Page 17, panel 5: Black Bolt writes his tribute to Maximus in Kree letters because Krees were responsible for the genetic experiments that created the Inhumans, as first narrated in Thor #147, December 1967, in "The Origin Of: The Incomparable Inhumans!".
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Jim Shooter (signed as
Shooter); Archie Goodwin (signed) - Pencils
- ? (photograph)
- Inks
- ? (photograph)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And now, the moment you've all been waiting for...
- Feature Logo
Bullpen Bulletins- Characters
- Louise Jones [Louise Simonson] (photograph)
Indexer Notes
Follows page 21 of the main sequence. The Hype Box; The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
The Deciding Factor!
Captain America; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't know what these alien invaders are thinking...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- aliens; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Colonel Nick Fury
- Reprints
- from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #68 (March 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Comics ad for Hostess Twinkies from Continental Baking Company.
Precedes page 22 of the main sequence.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Byrne, My brothers and I have been...
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Neumanna, Brian C. Hoard, Kenn Thomas and Matthew Denn.
[The Red Dragon]
A "Dungeons & Dragons" Adventure! / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Willingham (signed as Willingham)
- Inks
- Bill Willingham (signed as Willingham)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Deep in the dungeon, Indel the Elf comes face to...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; sword and sorcery
- Characters
- dragon; Grimslade; Indel; Saren; Valerius
Indexer Notes
Outside back cover. Comics ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc. Continued between [Evil Goblins] and [Grindal the Mentor].
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
Exodus!
Fantastic Four -
1.
Exodus
Fantastic Four -
2.
["And now, the moment you've all been waiting for..."]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
3.
The Deciding Factor!
Captain America; Hostess Fruit Pies -
4.
["Dear Byrne, My brothers and I have been..."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page -
5.
[The Red Dragon]
A "Dungeons & Dragons" Adventure!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Max Capp
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Matthias Hofmann
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- François Manardo
- Stéphane PETIT
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
- Mike Verhart
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