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Issue: Fantastic Four #286
Publication Date: January 1986
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Issues: #286 of 416 Issues (930 Printings)
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Variant: Direct
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.65 USD
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Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S., then standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#116, 200, 358)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Like a Phoenix...

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne #7 published ?
In Content Item: FlagEssential X-Factor #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2005
as Fantastic Four #286 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagX-Men: Phoenix Rising #[nn] [premiere edition] published January 2009
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Like a Phoenix... [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Like a Phoenix!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sentinels (cameo flashback)
First Line: "Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every coming together again...
Synopsis: Reed Richards manages to free Jean Grey from the capsule the Avengers had found her in. While trying to restore her missing memories, Jean learns that she was replaced by the Phoenix, who in turn was destroyed by the humanity it gained by duplicating Jean.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagX-Men: Phoenix Rising #[nn] [premiere edition] published January 2009
In Issue: FlagFantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne #7 published ?
In Content Item: FlagEssential X-Factor #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2005
as Like a Phoenx! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2013
as Like a Phoenix! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Story continues in part from Avengers #263 and continues in part in X-Factor #1.

According to John Byrne, significant portions of this issue were redrawn by Guice and rewritten by Claremont at the direction of Jim Shooter.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from readers: Owen Johnson, Erik Gerdes, Michael Pickens, Timothy (full name and address lost by embarrassed assistant editor!)

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