Fantastic Four
#247
[Direct]
(October 1982)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-07-13
- 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 #13.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
This Land Is Mine!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom]; Latverians
- Reprints
-
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #212 -
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #137/138 (novembre 1982) -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #19 (5 Aprile 1990) -
in The Villainy of Dr. Doom (Marvel, 1999 series) (1999) -
in Coleccionable Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #5 (Febrero 2002) - in Fantastic Four Vol. 1 No. 247 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2002 series) (April 2002) [cover]
- in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 ([June] 2004)
- 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, #[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's Mightiest Heroes (Hachette Partworks, 2014 series) #120 - Doctor Doom (2017) - in Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (Marvel, 2003 series) #22 (2020) [Marvel Masterworks border trade dress]
-
- Keywords
- Latveria
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I Got a Whole Set of All-Time Baseball Greats Free!
Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- sports
Indexer Notes
Ad for Cracker Jack snacks, on the inside front cover.
This Land Is Mine!
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
- Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (villain); Zorba (villain, death); Kristoff (introduction); Boris; Josef (Burgermeister)
- Synopsis
- Seeing the evil Zorba has created in Latveria, the Fantastic Four help Doom regain control of his country.
- Reprints
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #13 - in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #137/138 (novembre 1982)
-
in Fantastic Four (Federal, 1983 series) #3 ([September] 1984) -
in Spindelmannen (Semic, 1984 series) #11/1985 (1985) -
in Edderkoppen (Interpresse, 1984 series) #11/1985 (uge 45 1985) -
in Edderkoppen (Semic, 1984 series) #11/1985 (uke 47 1985) -
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #109 (5 février 1987) [-1 page] - in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #19 (5 Aprile 1990)
- in The Villainy of Dr. Doom (Marvel, 1999 series) (1999)
- in Coleccionable Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002 series) #5 (Febrero 2002)
- in Fantastic Four Vol. 1 No. 247 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2002 series) (April 2002)
- in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 ([June] 2004)
- in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #4 - Die Fantastischen Vier (2005)
- 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)
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Now Bubble Yum Is Super Yum
Bubble Yum / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for Bubble Yum gum.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
- Feature Logo
Bullpen Bulletins
Indexer Notes
Includes The Hype Box and The Mighty Marvel Checklist.
[no title indexed]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page / letters page / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Fantastic Ones, FF #242 sported one...
- Feature Logo
- Fantastic Four Fan Page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Paul R. Davis, Mark D. Childress, John A. Wilcox, Stu Krull, Mark Waldman, Mike Stafford, and Richard and Wendy Pini.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
This Land Is Mine!
Fantastic Four -
1.
I Got a Whole Set of All-Time Baseball Greats Free!
Cracker Jack -
2.
This Land Is Mine!
Fantastic Four -
3.
Now Bubble Yum Is Super Yum
Bubble Yum -
4.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
5.
["Dear Fantastic Ones, FF #242 sported one..."]
Fantastic 4 Fan Page
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- ge.org.e
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- Kelly Langston-Smith
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