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Issue: Fantastic Four #172

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Publication Date: July 1976

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Issues: #172 of 416 Issues (912 Printings)

Title:

Variant: U.S. Cover Price

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860246207

Price: $0.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)

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Format

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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Fantastic Four #172 [U.S. Cover Price]

Fantastic Four #172 [30¢]

Fantastic Four #172 [British]

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- Cry, the Bedeviled Planet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (5 total)

Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; The Destroyer

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Cry, the Bedeviled Planet!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; High Evolutionary; Gorr; The Destroyer (villain); Galactus (villain); Hulk (Flashback); Adam Warlock (flashback); Man-Beast (flashback)

First Line: Forget the fact that the being shackled...

Synopsis: The golden ape Gorr brings the Fantastic Four to Counter Earth where they try to fight off the Destroyer before he calls Galactus to feed. They fail and the world eater shows up.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Atlanticserien #8/1978 published August 1978
as Förhäxad planet [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 17

Job Number: JV373

Notes: Re-introduction of Galactus. He is the villain until #176. The High Evolutionary also plays a central role.

An Omnium-Gatherum of Odysseys Occult, Olios, and Occasions Obbligato!

In-house Column on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Character(s): Captain America; Shang-Chi

First Line: It's on sale at last!

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Pages: 1

Captain America and The Red Skull

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Captain America; Hostess Twinkies

Character(s): Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Red Skull [Johann Schmidt]

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Pages: 1

Eagle-Eye GI Joe Meets the Interuder Strongman from Another World

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: military

Feature(s): GI Joe

Character(s): GI Joe; The Commander; The Intruder

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Pages: 1

Notes: Comic ad for the GI Joe action figures.