Excelsior! It seemed only fitting to begin with a nod to Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee. It is Lee and his partner in crime, Jack Kirby, that we think of when we think of the Fantastic Four. And it is understandable that we do think this way since the duo worked on 100 issues of the World's Greatest Comic Magazine.
However the legend that is the Fantastic Four did not end with Lee and Kirby (obviously). About 10 years after, John Byrne began a run that would last six years and watch him put an indelible mark on the quartet that today rivals the creators time on the book.
Beginning with issue #232 when Byrne assumed both writer and drawing chores a masterpiece was about to be weaved that would not just changed the way we look at the Fantastic Four (the Invisible Woman, Galactus munching on the Skrull homeworld, the death of Reed Richards), but also impact the very fabric of the entire Marvel Universe.
Marvel in its ultimate wisdom (and we mean that in a great way) decided to collect Bryne's entire run in Fantastic Four Visionaries, John Bryne. Brave New Worlds has the first seven volumes in stock, with almost all of them available at the low price of $10! That is a great deal for such an amazing run of what has yet to been rivaled since.
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