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Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #22
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four, Vol. 22
Collects Fantastic Four (1961) #241-250; What If? (1977) #36; Silver Surfer (1982) #1; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #2
Master storyteller John Byrne’s groundbreaking FANTASTIC FOUR run continues! From a mysterious Wakandan adventure to the chilling return of Galactus, Byrne orchestrates epic adventures that capture the spirit of what makes the FF Marvel’s greatest super-team. Each issue explores the essence of these beloved characters while also putting them in extremely unexpected places - like side by side with Doctor Doom in a battle for Latveria! Byrne also recognizes the power of Sue Richards, has changes in store for Nova and the Thing and returns to the X-Men for a supersized 250th-issue extravaganza! Plus: John Byrne’s SILVER SURFER collaboration with Stan Lee, an alternate-universe exploration of a Fantastic Four without super-powers and a rare story spotlighting Mister Fantastic!
Master storyteller John Byrne’s groundbreaking FANTASTIC FOUR run continues! From a mysterious Wakandan adventure to the chilling return of Galactus, Byrne orchestrates epic adventures that capture the spirit of what makes the FF Marvel’s greatest super-team. Each issue explores the essence of these beloved characters while also putting them in extremely unexpected places - like side by side with Doctor Doom in a battle for Latveria! Byrne also recognizes the power of Sue Richards, has changes in store for Nova and the Thing and returns to the X-Men for a supersized 250th-issue extravaganza! Plus: John Byrne’s SILVER SURFER collaboration with Stan Lee, an alternate-universe exploration of a Fantastic Four without super-powers and a rare story spotlighting Mister Fantastic!
355 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 12, 2020
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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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May 12, 2024
This volume collects part of one of the best comicbooks runs of all time: John Byrne’s tenure on the Fantastic Four. It was this and Alpha Flight that turned me into a lifelong ‘Byrne Victim’ (I didn’t discover his X-Men stuff until later; blame the vagaries of the then-very-patchy UK comics market).
If you love comics and you haven’t read this run, you owe it to yourself to do so. It doesn’t get much better than this.
If you love comics and you haven’t read this run, you owe it to yourself to do so. It doesn’t get much better than this.
September 13, 2021
What can I say that has not been said?
This is the second of John Bryne's masterful run with the Fantastic Four. Not only did we get great science fiction stories but true human dramas. The characters became more real under his pen. We already loved them but with this volume we begin not just to watch them work but become a part of their family. Even today reading all the new stories I still look back at this run as one of the best.
This is the second of John Bryne's masterful run with the Fantastic Four. Not only did we get great science fiction stories but true human dramas. The characters became more real under his pen. We already loved them but with this volume we begin not just to watch them work but become a part of their family. Even today reading all the new stories I still look back at this run as one of the best.
October 29, 2023
Almost as good as the early run, but Byrne gets back into a villain-of-the-week rhythm here with some notable departures. There are a lot of sci-fi stories and development for Sue Storm.
March 30, 2022
The latest collection of classic Fantastic Four stories, these from the pen and imagination of John Byrne. Fun stories, excellent artwork and lots to enjoy.
October 19, 2023
Continuamos con esta historia masiva de los Cuatro Fantásticos, la Primera Familia del cómic, y seguimos con la que creo que sigue siendo la etapa más importante o al menos más conocida de la colección (al menos después de la etapa fundacional, ese estallido de creatividad que elevó la serie a las estrellas de manos de Stan Lee y Jack Kirby), la de John Byrne como autor completo. Y después de devolver a Galactus a la historia y darle una nueva heraldo (en una bofetada sin manos a Chris Claremont, que no mucho tiempo atrás se había visto obligado a matar a Fénix en las páginas de la Patrulla-X, personaje al que ahora Byrne "fotocopia" para perfilar a Nova), ahora toca hacer regresar al Doctor Muerte de su exilio como muñeco en Liddleville (y de paso, restaurar su posición como monarca de Latveria, siguiendo el adagio de Lee que hablaba de la ilusión del cambio pero sin el cambio). Pero no es lo único, aún le queda tiempo en estos números para contar una historia que se desarrolla en Attilan con el bautizo de Luna, la hija de Mercurio y Crystal, y la celebración del número 250 de los Cuatro Fantásticos, donde tienen que hacer frente al pretor Shi'ar Gladiador, y donde van a aparecer como invitados la propia Patrulla-X y el Capitán América. Y por cierto, muy interesante el anual que aparece en este tomo, también completo de Byrne, y que demuestra que tuvo que ser un gran fan de la época de Kirby y Lee en la serie, recuperando a aquellos primeros skrull que aparecieron en la serie y que terminaron convertidos en vacas...
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