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CATALOG RECORD

What If? #30

Marvel · Series began 1977 · December 1981

WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT

  • Tethys (Inhumans) — first appearance

Dates

Cover date
December 1981
Pages
52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #30 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 0714860268612

    Source ↗
  • Direct edition

    Direct

    No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Bob Layton, Rich Buckler, Jim Mooney, Pablo Marcos, Ron Wilsoninks: Bob Layton, Jim Mooney, Pablo Marcos, Joe Sinnott, Chic Stoneletters: Ron Zalme, Rick Parker, Tom Orzechowski, Irv Watanabescript: Bill Flanagan, Peter Gilliscolors: George Roussos, Glynis Oliver

Stories

  • What If...Spider-Man's Clone Had Survived? · 31 pages

    The Spider Clone survived (years before they brought him back).

  • Moving Day! · 7 pages

    How the Inhumans moved the Great Refuge to the Himalayas.

Characters

Black BoltBlackagar BoltagonMedusaMedusalith Amaquelin BoltagonCrystalCrystalia Amaquelin MaximoffKarnakGorgonMakkariSpriteAndvariTethys

Reprinted in

What If? Classic (2004), What If? Classic: The Complete Collection (2018), The Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus (2007), Marvel Masterworks: The Inhumans (2009), Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga (2020), Eternals: Secrets from the Marvel Universe (2020), The Eternals: The Complete Saga Omnibus (2020), What If?: The Original Marvel Series Omnibus (2021)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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