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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published March 1998
Cover Price 1.99 USD
Pages 38
Editing Mark Powers (editor); Jason Liebig (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
Notes Heroes Return.

Cover Details

Characters Thing, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Red Ghost's Super-Apes (Mikhlo, Peator, Igor).
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Davis (?)
Inks Mark Farmer (?)
Notes Heroes Return.

1 page Fantastic Four recap "Previously . . ."

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Thing; Human Torch; Invisible Woman
Genre superhero
Letters typeset
Notes Brief introduction to the major characters, with a re-cap of the events from Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #2.

21 page Fantastic Four story "Happy New Year, Reed Richards . . . Now Die!"

Characters Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Torch; SC: Franklin Richards; V: Red Ghost, Red Ghost's Super-Apes, Crucible (I); GA: Silver Surfer, Alicia Masters, Mole Man; OC: Herbie, Cathy Polombo, Devin Chapman (I), Isabel Aguirre (I), Gordon Clay (I).
Synopsis Reed does research on Iconoclast; Reed battles the Red Ghost's Super-Apes; the Silver Surfer and the Mole Man sense danger; two reporters investigate the monastery where Dr. Doom once sought refuge, to find the monks have all been killed by Crucible.
Genre superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Alan Davis
Inks Mark Farmer
Colors Liquid!
Letters Richard Starkings and Comicraft
Notes Cameo appearance by Iconoclast. Crucible's true identity is revealed in issue #12.

1 page Inhumans illustration

Characters Inhumans (Black Bolt, Medusa, Triton, Gorgon, Karnak, Lockjaw).
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Davis
Inks Mark Farmer