Fantastic Four #253 (1983) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; colors: Glynis Oliver	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Quest	comic story	22	script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Jim Novak	Annihilus, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Jim Shooter
4	-	letters page	0.8	letters: typeset
5	U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Required by 39 U.S.C. 3685)	statement of ownership	0.2	script: Ed Shukin

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

Edition	How to tell
Canadian	price 0.75 CAD; barcode 0714860246204
Newsstand	price 0.60 USD; barcode 0714860246204

Collection	Year
Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne #3 ISBN 0-7851-1679-6	2005	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-5824-0	2011	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
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