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Issue: Fantastic Four #193
Publication Date: April 1978
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Issues: #193 of 416 Issues (930 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Whitman
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.35 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: A distribution variant, sold in Whitman branded plastic bags and distributed by Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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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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Cry Doom! Cry Darkoth!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Darkoth
First Line: And while you're at it, cry for poor Ben Grimm, having to face this monster without his famous partners!
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Pages: 1
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Day of the Death-Demon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Rebecca Rainbow; Franklin Richards; Impossible Man; Agatha Harkness; Diablo; Darkoth [Desmond Pitt]
First Line: In the wake of the FF's break-up, Ben Grimm has offered his services to NASA!
Synopsis: Ben is flying an experimental shuttle for NASA which is taken over by Diablo, and even Thing's old buddy Darkoth can't save him.
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Pages: 18
Job Number: C-689
Disclose Notes: This is the Thing solo story. Continued next issue.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: This is it!
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Pages: 1
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Spider-Man "Spoils a Snatch"

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Stop, thief!!
Synopsis: As Peter and Mary Jane visit the museum, an unnamed thief steals the Cope Emerald. Spider-Man uses Hostess® Cup Cakes to catch the villain.
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