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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published October 1999
Cover Price $1.99
Pages 36
Editing Bobbie Chase (editor); Brian Smith (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Marvel Girl (Valeria Von Doom), Thing, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch.
Genre superhero
Pencils Salvador Larroca (?)
Inks Art Thibert (?)

23 page Fantastic Four story "Lost Hope!"

Characters Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Torch; SC: Bounty, Marvel Girl (Valeria von Doom); GS: She-Hulk; V: Absorbing Man, Titania; GA: Spider-Man; cameo: Ronan, Annihilus, the Ruined, Badoon, Brood, Dr. Doom.
Synopsis Reed investigates Valeria's claim to be Sue's daughter; Sue vents her anger; Valeria overhears; they both reflect on their past; Valeria battles the Absorbing Man and Titania, who drug She-Hulk and Ben; Sue trouces the villains, and brings Valeria home.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Salvador Larroca
Inks Art Thibert
Colors Liquid!
Letters Richard Starkings and Comicraft
Notes Part 1 of 2. The FF appear here after Contest of Champions II (hence the reference to Badoon and Brood). Sue finds the birth certificate to her stillborn daughter (from FF vol. 1 #267), Valerie Meghan Richards. Valeria is Sue and Dr. Doom's daughter.