Fantastic Four #259 (1983) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Three Against Doomsday!	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; colors: Glynis Oliver	Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Choices	comic story	22	script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Jim Novak	Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Norrin Radd, Silver Surfer, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
4	New from Marvel Comics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne	Alpha Flight [Vindicator [James MacDonald Hudson]; Sasquatch [Walter Langkowski]; Aurora; Northstar; Marrina; Shaman [Doctor Michael Twoyoungmen]; Snowbird; Puck [Eugene Judd]]
5	-	in-house column	1	script: Jim Shooter	Carl Potts (caricature)

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 0.60 USD; barcode 0714860246210
Canadian	price 0.75 CAD; barcode 0714860246210

Collection	Year
The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus #[nn] ISBN 0-87135-575-2	1989	On eBay ›
The Greatest Villains of the Fantastic Four #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0079-2	1995	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne #4 ISBN 0785117105	2005	On eBay ›

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