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Fantastic Four Omnibus Vol. 1 (New Printing)

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One gets the sense that Byrne loved the Fantastic Four a particular way, and that he feels a need to defend that era against certain criticisms that have been made of it. And I have not even mentioned the usual ( you know, individual character development, the true to life arguments etc that revamped superhero fiction). Mighty Marvel sprang from this motherlode and just look at the familiar names that first appeared here - the Skrulls, Prince Namor, the diabolical Doctor Doom! I haven't read Stan Lee's and Jack Kirby's version of Fantastic Four, but I can imagine that Byrne got very close to their run in the terms of quality, storytelling and art. One interesting sidebar from this time period, at one point John Byrne was penciling both the Fantastic Four and the X-Men every month, then left the Fantastic Four to do Captain America for a few issues because two team books a month was too much.

Doom, Red Ghost, Mole Man, Miracle Man, Molecule Man, Skrulls (including Superskrull), Rama-Tut and Puppet Master! After a troubled period at DC Comics (National Periodicals as it then was) and a creatively productive but disheartening time on the poisoned chalice of the Sky Masters newspaper strip (see Complete Sky Masters of the Space Force), Jack Kirby settled into his job at the small outfit that used to be the publishing powerhouse Timely/Atlas.

His run can be a little uneven and overly quirky for some readers, but I had a heck of a time with it. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Svalbard and Jan Mayen Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. This was my first time reading the run, which has received the massive omnibus treatment from Marvel. Byrne might have done the art for those earlier stories but whomever did the inks overwhelmed Byrne's amazing art and you can't tell one of the greatest comic book artists ever penciled those pages.

Fortunately, I’m happy to report that though it took several hundred pages, John Byrne managed to win this moron over.In fact, and we’ll discuss this in more depth next time, The Trial of Galactus is built around vindicating Reed’s world view. I’ve always had an ambivalent relationship with Marvel’s first family, enjoying the book occasionally (most notably during the Waid/Weiringo run, though that was mostly because I’d have read anything Ringo drew, including The Adventures of Toast Man, which I imagine would be a book about a guy who really enjoys making toast all day, but only sometimes buttering it), but mostly reacting with tepid indifference to the FF, whether in their own book or when they jumped into one of Marvel’s endless string of crossovers.

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