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Issue: Fantastic Four #5
Publication Date: May 1998
 
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
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: 07447002462005
Price: $2.80 CAD
$1.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Mark Powers (editor); Jason Liebig (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Behold The Coming of... Crucible!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Salvador Larroca (signed)
Art Thibert [as TH] (signed)
Liquid! (signed)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; the Thing]; Crucible
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Miscellaneous
1
Previously in Fantastic Four

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
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?
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typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; the Thing; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Woman]
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Miscellaneous
2
Brief introduction to the major characters, with a re-cap of the events from Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #3-4.
Broken Reed

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Scott Lobdell (plot); Chris Claremont (script)
Salvador Larroca
Art Thibert
Liquid!
Richard Starkings [as RS]; Albert Deschesne [as AD]; Comicraft
Subject Matter
superhero
Fantastic Four
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)
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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Miscellaneous
24
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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Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Stan Lee (signed); ?
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typeset; Comicraft; Richard Starkings
Subject Matter
Bullpen Bulletins
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
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typeset; Comicraft
Subject Matter
Fantastic Four
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters from Paul Strobel, Tony Ingram, Matthew Huynh, Clay Loveland, Mike Nash.

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