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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published January 1998
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 54
Editing Mark Powers (editor); Jason Liebig (assistant editor, uncredited); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)
Notes Heroes Return. UPC code ends in "00111". Wraparound cover.

Cover Details - "Cover A"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Thing; Human Torch; B'arr; Exalt; Stem
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Davis (?)
Inks Mark Farmer (?)
Notes Heroes Return. UPC code ends in "00111". Wraparound cover.

Cover Details - "Cover B"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Thing; Human Torch
Genre superhero
Pencils Alan Davis (?)
Inks Mark Farmer (?)
Notes Heroes Return. UPC code ends in "00121". Often called the "Sunburst" variant.

2 page Fantastic Four recap "Previously in Fantastic Four"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Thing; Human Torch; Invisible Woman
Genre superhero
Letters typeset
Notes Brief introduction to the major characters, with a re-cap of the events from Onslaught to Heroes Reborn: The Return.

44 page Fantastic Four story "Vive la Fantastique!"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Thing; Human Torch; Franklin Richards (SC); Ruined (Villains, Intro)[B'arr; Exalt; Stem]; Mole Man; Moloids; Yvette Diamonde (Intro); Laurent Levesseur (Intro); Herve Dubois (Intro); Aaron Starr; Arlise (Intro); Yancy Street Gang (in Paris!).
Synopsis In Paris, Yvette Diamonde protests construction over a historic site; several people are transformed into ancient beings called the Ruined; the FF sets things right; Yvette finds that she has permanently acquired new powers -- just like the FF once did.
Genre superhero
Script Scott Lobdell
Pencils Alan Davis
Inks Mark Farmer
Colors Liquid!
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft's Albert Deschesne
Notes The events in this story follow the Fantastic Four's return from the Pocket Universe in Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4. The Ruined appear next in issue #20.