(October 2008)

Marvel, 2008 Series
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Price
2.99 USD; 3.05 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
Monthly
On-sale Date
2008-08-20
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Parental Advisory
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Publishing Inc.
Brand
Marvel [in horizontal box]
Barcode
759606063239 00211
Editing
Molly Lazer (credited) (editor); Bill Rosemann (credited) (editor); Tom Brevoort (credited) (executive editor); Lauren Sankovitch (credited) (assistant editor); Lauren Henry (credited) (assistant editor); Joe Quesada (credited) (editor in chief)

Issue Notes

Diamond order code: JUN082325

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

True Believers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Αἰσχύλος (credited as Aeschylus)
Pencils
Paul Gulacy (credited) (signed as Gulacy) (cover artist)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (credited) (signed as Gulacy) (cover artist)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
In war, truth is the first casualty. --Aeschylus
Genre
superhero
Characters
Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Payback [Mavis Trent]
Keywords
mugshot
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

True Believers / recap / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paul Gulacy
Inks
Paul Gulacy
Colors
Rain Beredo
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero

Payback Is a Bitch Part 2: Daddy Issues (Table of Contents: 2)

True Believers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates (credited)
Pencils
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Colors
Rain Beredo (credited)
Letters
Dave Lanphear of ArtMonkeys (credited as Artmonkey's Dave Lanphear)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
...this wasn't about trashing a hero, Madge.
Genre
superhero
Characters
True Believers [Payback [Mavis Trent]; Red Zone [Theo Bomba]; Headtrip [Talyn Roark]; Battalus [Ozzie Tanaka]]; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Woman [Susan Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Dr. Cornelius Worth; Max Trent (flashback); SHIELD [Ned; Chet]; Surge [Rupert Vitz]
Synopsis
The True Believers help spread a video of Mr. Fantastic being arrested for a DUI while operating the Fantasticar. Payback goes to see the Fantastic Four for herself and by comparing notes they reason Mr. Fantastic had been drugged by Surge, a wannabe super hero trying to blackmail his way into the Fantastic Four. Payback helps run a sting operation to catch Surge and the Fantastic Four and True Believers bring him to justice. Mavis tells all of this to Dr. Worth along with the story of how her father Max died, then promises to explain how she bonded with a symbiote.
Keywords
Baxter Building; dispersion wave; Fantasticar; symbiote
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["In war, truth is the first casualty. --Aeschylus"]
    True Believers
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    True Believers
  3. 2. Payback Is a Bitch Part 2: Daddy Issues
    True Believers
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  • Fred Beels
  • Mark Boyer
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Andrew Krieg
  • Ramon Schenk
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