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Issue Details

Issue #238
Published January 1982
Cover Price 0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Jim Salicrup; Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Notes Salicrup cover design credit from the letters page in Fantastic Four #243 (June 1982).

Cover Details

Characters Alicia Masters; Doctor Doom; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; The Thing]; Franklin Richards; John Byrne
Genre superhero; humor
Pencils John Byrne (signed); Jim Salicrup (design)
Inks Terry Austin (signed)
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Salicrup cover design credit from the letters page in Fantastic Four #243 (June 1982).
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Visionaries (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn] (November 2001)

13 page The Fantastic Four story "The Lady Is for Burning!"

Characters the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; The Thing]; Frankie Raye (gains fire super powers); Jake (doctor); Penny (Jake's wife, doctor); Professor Phineas T. Horton (flashback); Sam
Synopsis Johnny discovers that his girlfriend has developed super-powers.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks John Byrne
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Jim Novak
Notes Set in New York and Benson, Arizona.
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #10 (July 1989) [Italy]; in Fantastic Four Visionaries (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn] (November 2001)

1 page The Fantastic Four illustration "A Marvel Masterwork Pin-Up"

Characters the Invisible Girl
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne (signed)
Inks John Byrne (signed)
Letters John Byrne
Notes Set in New York.
Reprinted in Fantastic Four Visionaries (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn] (November 2001)

8 page The Fantastic Four story "The More Things Change..."

Characters Alicia Masters; the Fantastic Four [the Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Invisible Girl; Mr. Fantastic; The Thing]; Franklin Richards; HERBIE-like robot
Synopsis Reed makes a robot to keep an eye on Franklin. Reed tries once again to cure Ben of his rocky form but ends up devolving him to a rougher rocky state.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Bob Sharen
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Set in New York.
Reprinted in Fantastici Quattro (Edizioni Star Comics, 1988 series) #10 (July 1989) [Italy]; in Fantastic Four Visionaries (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn] (November 2001)

1 page Captain Marvel; Hostess Twinkies advertisement "Flea Bargaining"

Characters Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; the Flea-Market-Eating Flea
Genre superhero
Letters Irving Watanabe
Notes Comics ad for Hostess Twinkies from Continental Baking Company.

1 page letters page "Fantastic Four Fan Page"

Script various; Jim Salicrup
Letters typeset