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Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #27
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four, Vol. 27
Collects Fantastic Four (1961) #286-296 and material from Marvel Fanfare(1982) #37.
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Fantastic Four! John Byrne concludes his iconic tenure as FANTASTIC FOUR writer/artist - and he's going to make history every step of the way! He begins with the shocking resurrection of Jean Grey. How do you follow that up? With the return of the true Doctor Doom in a next-level war with the Beyonder! Then our heroes journey into the Negative Zone with Nick Fury to face Blastaar and a resurgent Annihilus - but when their return trip catapults them to 1936, they're faced with a classic dilemma. Do you stop Nick Fury from killing Hitler? It all builds to a triple-sized 25th Anniversary extravaganza that seeks to bring the Thing back into the fold, set where else but Monster Island?
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Fantastic Four! John Byrne concludes his iconic tenure as FANTASTIC FOUR writer/artist - and he's going to make history every step of the way! He begins with the shocking resurrection of Jean Grey. How do you follow that up? With the return of the true Doctor Doom in a next-level war with the Beyonder! Then our heroes journey into the Negative Zone with Nick Fury to face Blastaar and a resurgent Annihilus - but when their return trip catapults them to 1936, they're faced with a classic dilemma. Do you stop Nick Fury from killing Hitler? It all builds to a triple-sized 25th Anniversary extravaganza that seeks to bring the Thing back into the fold, set where else but Monster Island?
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392 pages, Hardcover
Published June 24, 2025
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John Byrne
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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.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
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.
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July 13, 2025
4.5 stars
So comes to an end John Byrne’s classic run on the FF and my personal favourite run to boot. Re-reading these books has been like hanging out with my junior school friends again after decades apart.
This collection also contains the 25th anniversary giant-sized special scripted by Stan himself, true believers!
So comes to an end John Byrne’s classic run on the FF and my personal favourite run to boot. Re-reading these books has been like hanging out with my junior school friends again after decades apart.
This collection also contains the 25th anniversary giant-sized special scripted by Stan himself, true believers!
October 1, 2025
With this volume, we reached the 25th anniversary of the Fantastic Four and the whole Marvel universe. John Byrne does some nice plotting and some nicer artwork (though helped out by Jerry Ordway at the end) in a run of very SF-oriented tales. Nicest of them is the actually anniversary issue, which brings The Thing back to the title after a long absence... A fine run of tales that leaves the then-future of the Four up for grabs.
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