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Marvel Knights 4 (Single Issues) #1-14
Marvel Knights Fantastic Four: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
The far-out Fantastic Four join the hard-hitting Marvel Knights imprint! The FF must regroup to overcome the one threat their incredible powers cannot defeat - bankruptcy! And when Reed, Sue and Ben take Franklin on a camping trip to the Pine Barrens, what they find is a strange creature that may well be the Jersey Devil! While New York freezes in the icy grip of winter, an old foe resurfaces with a grudge: Namor! But soon the team's deepest fears and doubts are spreading from their dreams to the waking world. Their old villain Psycho-Man may hold the key, but he's...dying?! And blind sculptress Alicia Masters has her sight restored -but at what cost? Plus, witness the ultimate Thing/Hulk battle -it's a knock-down, drag-out slobber knocker that will rattle your molars!
COLLECTING: MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 1-14, HULK/THING: HARD KNOCKS 1-4
COLLECTING: MARVEL KNIGHTS 4 1-14, HULK/THING: HARD KNOCKS 1-4
- GenresComicsSuperheroes
424 pages, Paperback
Published March 26, 2019
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About the author
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
466 books475 followersRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
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March 4, 2022
This is a really cool collection that unfortunately doesn't seem to have a volume 2 collecting the rest of the series (though it is collected in individual volumes). In here, you'll get Sacasa's Marvel Knights 4, a really solid Fantastic Four title, though also very unlike a lot of the other grittier street level Marvel Knights books. A fair amount of the arcs are horror oriented and that's where the book really shines (no surprise given the writer's future Archie work), but the focus on family is also stellar too. Two arcs are a little weak, Eyes Without a Face and the Hulk vs. Thing mini at the end, but Jae Lee's art really does a lot to make the latter stand out. Over all a very good read and definitely recommend for anyone wanting to read more Fantastic Four, or just looking to check out more underrated Marvel runs in general.
June 12, 2019
Generally enjoyable. Especially the first 7 issues with McNiven on art.
The 4 issue Hulk/Thing mini at the end was pretty pointless. Would have been a reasonably enjoyable one-shot, but at 4 issues...? Boring.
The 4 issue Hulk/Thing mini at the end was pretty pointless. Would have been a reasonably enjoyable one-shot, but at 4 issues...? Boring.
May 27, 2019
I was disappointed by the muted colors of the comics, but it was an interesting perspective on the superhero group
May 18, 2025
It would be a 4+ star if not for the last 4 issue Hulk/Thing story.
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