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Fantastic Four (1961)

Fantastic Four (1961-1998) #239 (Fantastic Four

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Ben’s Aunt Petunia pays the FF a visit- and is in need of some investigative help with mysterious deaths in her town! Meanwhile, a war is raging in the Inhuman city of Attilan.

23 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 22, 2016

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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.

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March 22, 2026
Qué pedazo de comicazo me acabo de leer. QUÉ BUEN CÓMIC, DE VERDAD.

Pasa que aparece por primera vez la tía Petunia Grimm, esa tía que Ben menciona cada cierto tiempo en las historietas y que, hasta ahora, no había asomado sus narices en los paneles. En este tebeo llegó el momento de ella.

Y su aparición fue significativo, pues llegó para pedirle ayuda a la Primera Familia de Marvel a combatir algo que no comprendía. Resulta que en Benson, Arizona, lugar donde reside ella con su esposo, Jacob Grimm, tío de sangre de Ben (lo que convierte a Petunia en su tía política), están sucediendo muertes muy extrañas, que se asocian al miedo.

Al llegar, conocen a Ruth Efford, experta en el tema de los indios americanos, y a una pequeña de ocho años llamada Wendy.

Existen criaturas sobrenaturales que están juzgando a la población de Benson, y que diez mil años atrás, purgaron a los habitantes de la localidad al punto de exterminar a todas las tribus de indios. Los Cuatro Fantásticos encuentran por primera vez un enemigo que no pueden derrotar, sino solo prevenir las consecuencias.
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April 18, 2025
Once the B story gets going it's... shockingly good? The surprise at the end really got me. I really didn't realize the FF was so much "Twilight Zone with Superheroes."
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