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Fantastic Four #254

Marvel · Series began 1961 · May 1983

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Dates

Cover date: May 1983
On sale: February 15, 1983
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #254 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition60¢ cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Canadian price edition0.75 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 0.75 CAD.

Barcode 0714860246205 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Newsstand edition60¢ cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0714860246205 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: John Byrne, Ron Zalmeinks: John Byrne, Ron Zalmescript: John Byrne, Jim Shootercolors: Glynis Oliverletters: Jim Novak

Stories

The Minds of Mantracora · 22 pages
The FF have more bizarre adventures in the Negative Zone. Reed has his psyche sucked out by Taranith Gelstal to power his spaceship.

Publisher’s description

The team is ambushed in the Mantracora region of the Negative Zone…and is then kidnapped! All the while, Annihilus furthers his plot to destroy Earth. Will other heroes rise in the FF’s absence?

Reprinted in

Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne (2001), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (2011)