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Issue: Fantastic Four #5
Publication Date: May 1998
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Issues: #5 of 159 Issues (366 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 38
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 75960604456600511
Price: $2.80 CAD
$1.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Indicia incorrectly gives "April 1998" date.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior (#1-42); glossy interior (#43-588)
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagFantastic Four: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection #1 published January 2019
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Behold The Coming of... Crucible!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; the Thing]; Crucible
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Pages: 1
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Previously in Fantastic Four

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; the Thing; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Woman]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Brief introduction to the major characters, with a re-cap of the events from Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #3-4.
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Broken Reed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards] (origin); Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Woman [Sue Storm Richards]]; Franklin Richards (cameo); Alyssa Moy (intro, origin, cameo); Crucible (villain); Isabel Aguirre (cameo); Gordon Clay (cameo); Genoshan Freedom Brigade (cameo); Warwolves (behind the scenes, cameo)
Synopsis: Reed and Ben head for Stockholm to attend an international symposium of physicists, with Reed's friend Alyssa Moy. Crucible attacks. Reed notices a resemblance between Crucible and Doctor Doom. Crucible steals Reed's rationality and mental talents for himself.
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: The Crucible storyline is resolved in issues #10-12. The concern over the warping and twisting of the fabric of reality comes to a head in issues #24-25.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Fantastic Four
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Paul Strobel, Tony Ingram, Matthew Huynh, Clay Loveland, Mike Nash.

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