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Issue: Fantastic Four #60 (489)
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Title:
Variant: 1st Printing, Direct Edition, Standard Cover
Rating: PG
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 08/28/2002
Volume: 3
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 75960604456606011
Price: $3.75 CAD
$0.15 CAD
$2.25 USD
$0.09 USD
Indicia Frequency: PG
Content Items: 6 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Two issues published this month. To promote the new creative team, this issue has a special all-time low cover price of 9 Cents and the sub-title "World's Cheapest Comic Magazine".
Diamond order code: JUN021717
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Disclose Format
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
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 3 other Issues:
FlagFantastic Four: Antithesis #[nn] published January 2023
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
superhero
Reprinting
FlagColeccionable Marvel Héroes #2 published September 2010
FlagFantastic Four #1 published June 2003
as Imaginauts [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagFantastic Four #1 published June 2003
as Fantastic Four #60 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFantastic Four Vol.3, No. 60 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #60 published July 2003
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagFantastic Four 51 [Best Buy Edition] #[nn] published August 2005
as Fantastic Four #60 (October 2002) [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside Out

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Mr. Shertzer; Mr. Webber; the Datavore; Leviates (insectoid aliens); Skrulls (flashback, cameo); Dr. Miro (cameo); Jamal; Cody
Mr. Shertzer, an employee with a PR firm, is assigned to spend some time with The Fantastic Four.
Reprinting
FlagColeccionable Marvel Héroes #2 published September 2010
FlagFantastic Four #1 published June 2003
as Inside Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagFantastic Four Vol.3, No. 60 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #60 published July 2003
as Inside Out [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
22
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
Welcome, one and all, to a brand new era of excitement for Marvel’s First Family!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Editorial by Marc Sumerak about the new direction of the series, plus cover previews of Fantastic Four #61-63.
House Advertisement

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
0.5
House Advertisement (1/2 page) for: "The Call of Duty" miniseries.
Ultimate Savings!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
House Advertisement (One-Pager) for Marvel Comics Series (subscription page with Ultimates illustration).
Ads

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
10.5
Total of 8 one-page, 1 half-page, and 1 two-page advertisements for: Frosted Flakes (cereals, Kellogg's), Backyard Baseball (game, Infogrames), Tang (soft drink, KF Holdings), Looney Tunes (merchandise, WB), Kellogg's cereals (cereal, Kellogg's), Marvel ReCharge 2 (collectible card game, Marvel, 2 pages), Fruitopia (soft drink, Coca Cola), Spider-Man Monopoly (board game, USAopoly, 1/2 page), Fruit by the Foot (cereal, General Mills), Ritz Bits Sandwiches (snack, KF Holdings).
On the Baltimore Comic-Con Variant, the back cover Ritz Bits advertisement is replaced by a Baltimore Comic-Con announcement as well an index of the names and locations of 43 Baltimore/Washington area comic retailers.

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