Dates
- Cover date
- May 1986
- On sale
- January 28, 1986
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #290 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition75¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition75¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0714860246205 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.
Barcode 0714860246205 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Risk · 22 pages
The Fantastic Four get caught in a power struggle between Blastaar and Annihilus. Reed appears to sacrifice his life so that the Fantastic Four and Fury can escape from the Negative Zone while keeping Annihilus contained within. But they find they have gone back in time to 1936.
Reprinted in
The Greatest Villains of the Fantastic Four (1995), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus (2011)