Fantastic Four #257 (1983) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Galactus; Nova [Frankie Raye]; Death
2	Fragments	comic story	22	script: John Byrne; pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Jim Novak	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Nova [Frankie Raye]; Scarlet Witch; Vision; Galactus (villain); Death (villain); Skrulls (villains); Franklin Richards (cameo); H.E.R.B.I.E. (cameo)
4	-	in-house column	1	script: Jim Shooter
5	-	letters page	1	script: John Byrne

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

Edition	How to tell
Canadian	price 0.75 CAD; barcode 0714860246208
Newsstand	price 0.60 USD; barcode 0714860246208

Collection	Year
The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus #[nn] ISBN 0-87135-575-2	1989	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne #3 ISBN 0-7851-1679-6	2005	On eBay ›

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