cover: Mike Wieringo/Karl Kesel

FANTASTIC FOUR #500 (Director's Cut Edition) Sep 03 $4.99 Marvel Comics "Unthinkable" Part 4 (39 pages) writer: pencils: inker: colors: letters: Mark Waid Mike Wieringo Karl Kesel/Lary Stucker Paul Mounts Virtual Calligraphy's Rus Wooton edits: Marc Sumerak (asst)/Andy Schmidt/Tom Brevoort Foil cover. 15 pages of special features, including reprinted covers of: FANTASTIC FOUR #183, FANTASTIC FOUR #184, FANTASTIC FOUR #185, FANTASTIC FOUR #186, FANTASTIC FOUR #187, FANTASTIC FOUR #188, FANTASTIC FOUR #191, FANTASTIC FOUR #192, FANTASTIC FOUR #194, FANTASTIC FOUR #195, FANTASTIC FOUR #196, and FANTASTIC FOUR #197. Related FANTASTIC FOUR

August 10, 2003 | FF #500 Director's Cut Edition From Vu I put this issue in the Pérez checklist, but it's not really a "must have" item. Similarly like OFFICIAL TEEN TITANS INDEX #5 is not crucial to your collection, but it is worth a small mention. FANTASTIC FOUR #500 (Director's Cut Edition) is the first time that a comic book has extra material, like the popular "Director's Cut/Special Edition" DVDs. There's 15 pages of extra material: "Deleted Scenes", sketch designs, "Outakes", Fred Hembeck's "Fantastic Five... Hundred, That Is!!", process of putting a comic book together, Stan Lee's original synopsis for FF #1, and a "Printography". The Printography reprints all previous 499 covers of the Fantastic Four, over three pages. Obviously in order to fit all the covers the reprints of each cover is about 3 by 5 cm. Here is a small portion of the Printography: George Pérez did the following FF covers: Fantastic Four #183 (CP) Fantastic Four #184 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #185 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #186 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #187 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #188 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #191 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #192 (CP, IP) Fantastic Four #194 (CA) Fantastic Four #195 (CP) Fantastic Four #196 (CP) Fantastic Four #197 (CP)