Fantastic Four
#268
[Direct]
(July 1984)
Marvel,
1961 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.30 GBP; 0.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-03-27
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Editing
- Bob Budiansky (credited) (editor); Michael Higgins (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #44, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-04-17.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
The Masque of Doom!
Fantastic Four / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Eliot R. Brown (photo)
- Inks
- Eliot R. Brown (photo)
- Colors
- Eliot R. Brown (photo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Doom's mask
- Reprints
-
in El Asombroso Hombre Araña Presenta (Novedades, 1988 series) #256 -
in Fantastic Four (Federal, 1983 series) #11 ([1986]) -
in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #45 (Septiembre 1986) -
in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #40 (28 Febbraio 1991) -
in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #5 ([February] 2006) - in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
-
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The Masque of Doom!
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)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The members of the Fantastic Four have faced much together.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters] (origin)]; Alicia Masters; Doctor Bruce Banner [Hulk] (cameo); Doctor Octopus (cameo); Michael Langkowski [Sasquatch] (cameo); Michael Morbius (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Sue begins her recovery from a miscarriage. Doom's mask becomes animate and attempts to escape from the Baxter Building.
- Reprints
-
in Fantastic Four (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #159/160 (août 1984) - in Fantastic Four (Federal, 1983 series) #11 ([1986])
-
in Die Fantastischen Vier (Condor, 1979 series) #16 ([1986]) - in Los 4 Fantásticos (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #44 (Agosto 1986) [Páginas 1-11], #45 (Septiembre 1986) [Páginas 12-22]
-
in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #120 (5 janvier 1988) -
in Marvel Superheltene (Semic, 1987 series) #1/1988 ([februar] 1988) [minus page 2] - in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #40 (28 Febbraio 1991)
- in Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (Marvel, 2001 series) #5 ([February] 2006)
- in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #2 (2013)
- in Marvel Héroes (Panini España, 2012 series) #60 - Los 4 Fantásticos de John Byrne 2 (Mayo 2015)
- in Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2017 series) (2017) [pages 2-4]
-
[no title indexed]
Iron Fist / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as BS)
- Inks
- Bill Sienkiewicz (signed as BS)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero; martial arts
- Characters
- Iron Fist
Indexer Notes
Promo for the Power Man and Iron Fist comic.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Jim Shooter (signed); ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Hype Box; Check List
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Byrne (signed)
- Inks
- John Byrne (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Alpha Flight [Guardian [James MacDonald Hudson]; Sasquatch Walter Langowski]; Aurora; Northstar; Marrina; Shaman; Snowbird; Puck [Eugene Judd]]
Indexer Notes
Promo for Alpha Flight (Marvel, 1983 series) #12.
Special 1984 Low Price Offer
Marvel Subscriptions / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (signed as Sev)
- Inks
- Marie Severin (signed as Sev)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hulk
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Masque of Doom!
Fantastic Four -
1.
The Masque of Doom!
Fantastic Four -
2.
[no title indexed]
Iron Fist -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
4.
[no title indexed]
Alpha Flight -
5.
Special 1984 Low Price Offer
Marvel Subscriptions
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Roger Brochu
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Matthias Hofmann
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Stéphane PETIT
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Jim Van Dore
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