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Issue Details

Issue #23
Published November 1999
Cover Price $1.99
Pages 46
Editing Bobbie Chase (editor); Brian Smith (assistant editor); Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Mad Thinker's Awesome Android; Human Torch; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Thing; Marvel Girl [Valeria von Doom]; Chris Claremont; Salvador Larroca
Genre superhero
Pencils Salvador Larroca ?
Inks Art Thibert ?

22 page Fantastic Four story "Skull Session"

Characters Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Woman; Thing; Human Torch; SC: Franklin Richards; Caledonia; Puppy; Marvel Girl; GS: Avengers (Captain America; Firestar; Justice; Scarlet Witch; Thor; Wonder Man); V: Red Skull; Mad Thinker; GA: Daredevil; Namorita; She-Hulk; Chris Claremont; Salvador Larroca; Art Thibert
Synopsis Valeria makes herself at home in Reed's lab; the FF trace the villains to the San Diego Comic Convention; the Avengers (under influence) attack them; the real villains are the Red Skull and the Mad Thinker, who escape with SHIELD's Helicarrier.
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils Salvador Larroca
Inks Art Thibert
Colors Liquid!
Letters Richard Starkings; Comicraft
Notes Part 2 of 2. This story was published shortly after the 1999 San Diego Comic Con. The FF appear next in the FF 2000 Annual. First appearance of Valeria's room, which suddenly appears in the FF's headquarters out of nowhere.

8 page Spider-Man story "Media Blitz!"

Characters Spider-Man, Mysterio, J. Jonah Jameson, Sam Exmore, Toni Harris.
Genre superhero
Script Glenn Herdling
Pencils Gregg Schigiel
Inks Richard Case
Colors Paul Mounts
Letters Chris Dickey
Editing Michael Stewart and Steve Behling
Notes "Fast Lane" part 1 of 4. A "bonus insert" placed inside a number of Marvel comics published that month.