CATALOG RECORD
Fantastic Four Annual #23
first appearance of Ahab and Kosmos
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Ahab (typically from Earth-811, Marvel) — first appearance
- Kosmos (once Cosmic Cube) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- 1990
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #23 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148602915105
This edition’s page
Story arc: Days of Future Present
This is part 1 of 4. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #23
- The New Mutants Annual (1984) #6
- X-Men Annual (1970) #14
- X-Factor Annual (1986) #5
Creators
Stories
- When Franklin Comes Marchin' Home · 25 pages
A very powerful Franklin Richards arrives from the future, finds that things with his family are not as he remembers them and, much to the current Fantastic Four's chagrin, he "fixes" them.
- Cast in Fire Carved in Stone · 20 pages
- Beyond and Back · 10 pages
Kosmos, a new power entity, erupts from the Cosmic Cube that was a melding of Beyonder and Molecular Man. Kubik, also evolved from a cosmic cube, arrives to give Kosmos a tour of the universe and tells her he is there to be her teacher.
Characters
Reprinted in
Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), X-Men: Days of Future Present (1991), Essential X-Men (1996), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars: Battleworld (2015), X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda Omnibus (2024)