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Issue Details

Issue #289
Published April 1986
Cover Price 0.75
Pages 36
Editing Michael Carlin; Michael Higgins (Assistant)

Cover Details

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; She-Hulk; Human Torch
Genre superhero
Pencils John Byrne
Inks John Byrne
Letters Typeset

23 page Fantastic Four story "Rip Wide the Sky!"

Characters FEATURE: Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; She-Hulk; Human Torch; GUESTS: Nick Fury; SHIELD; VILLAINS: Basilisk (Death); Blastaar; CAMEOS: Annihilus; Scourge
Synopsis Scourge kills Basilisk; Fury calls the FF to SHIELD's space station to investigate an anomaly which was caused by the explosion of the Baxter Building in space; Reed discovers that it is really a gateway to the Negative Zone and, when he goes to investigate, is captured by Blastaar; The FF follow Reed into the Negative Zone and battle Blastaar but accidentally resurrect Annihilus.
Genre superhero
Script John Byrne
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Al Gordon
Colors Glynis Oliver
Letters John Workman
Reprinted in Greatest Villains of the Fantastic Four, The (Marvel, 1995 series) #nn