On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #35, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-11-22.
This issue is a variant of The Thing (Marvel, 1983 series) #9 [Newsstand].
There exist further variants:
Letters of comment from readers Margaret Stoneman, Raymond Villiers, Bobby Lee, Jillian Wembley, Michael Monroe, John Robert McNamara Jr., David Channing, and Leroy Alexander.