A follow up to 1987's The Best of Marvel Comics, this book is a color comic compilation chosen by some of the top creative people in comics. Written by Stan Lee, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Roger Stern & Walt Simonson -- with art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita, Sr., John Byrne, Michael Golden, Wally Wood, Gene Colan, Walt Simonson, Mike Esposito, Terry Austin, Joe Sinnott & George Klein.
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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.
Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.