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FREE FANTASTIC FOUR VOLUME 2: ORIGINAL SIN PDF Leonard Kirk,James Robinson | 112 pages | 25 Nov 2014 | Marvel Comics | 9780785154754 | English | New York, United States Fantastic Four (comic book) - Wikipedia Fantastic Four is the name of several comic book titles featuring the team Fantastic Four created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and published by Marvel Comicsbeginning with the original Fantastic Four comic book series which debuted in As the first superhero team title produced by Marvel Comics, it formed a cornerstone of the company's s rise from a small division of a publishing company to a pop culture conglomerate. The Fantastic Four is one of several Marvel titles originating in the Silver Age of Comic Books that was continuously published through before returning to monthly publication Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin Magazine and comic book publisher Martin Goodmana publishing trend- follower, aware of strong sales on Justice League of Americadirected his comics editor, Stan Leeto create a comic-book series about a team of superheroes. According to Lee, writing in"Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin called The [ sic ] Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes. The release of The Fantastic Four 1 Nov. Lee had felt ready to leave the comics field at the time, but the Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin response to Fantastic Four persuaded him to stay on. Issue 4 May reintroduced Namor the Sub-Mariner[5] an aquatic antihero who was a star character of Marvel's earliest iteration, Timely Comicsduring the late s and s period that historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comics. Issue 5 July introduced the team's most frequent nemesis, Doctor Doom. With issue 16 Julythe cover title dropped its The and became simply Fantastic Four. Kirby left Marvel Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin mid, [7] having Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin the first issues plus an unfinished issue, partially published in Fantastic Fourwith alterations, and later completed and published as Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure AprilFantastic Four continued with Lee, Roy Thomas[8] Gerry Conway and Marv Wolfman as its consecutive regular writers, working with artists such as John Romita Sr. Jim Steranko also contributed several covers during this time. With issue Julythe aptly titled "Back to the Basics", [14] Byrne began his run as writer, penciller and inker, the last under the pseudonym Bjorn Heyn for this issue only. Byrne revitalized the slumping title with his run. Sienkiewicz left to do Moon Knightand Byrne ended up as writer, artist, and inker. Various editors were assigned to the comic; eventually Bob Budiansky became the regular editor. Byrne told Jim Shooter that he could not work with Budiansky, although they ultimately continued to work together. InByrne said "that's my paranoia. I look back and I think that was Shooter trying to force me off the book". Byrne left following issue Aug. Steve Englehart took over as writer for issues — except The title had been struggling, so Englehart decided to make radical changes. He felt the title had become stale with the normal makeup of Reed, Sue, Ben, and Johnny, so in issue Reed and Sue retired and were replaced with the Thing's new girlfriend, Sharon Venturaand Johnny Storm's former love, Crystal. The changes increased readership through issue At this point, Marvel made decisions about another Englehart comic, West Coast Avengersthat he disagreed with, and in protest he changed his byline to S. Englehart S. In issueEnglehart was told to bring Reed and Sue back and undo the other changes he had made. This caused Englehart to take his name entirely off the book. He used the pseudonym Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin Harkness, which he had created years before for work he didn't want to be associated with. According to Englehart, the run from through his last issue,was "one of the most painful stretches of [his] career. With brief inking exceptions, two fill-in issues, and a three-issue stint drawn by Arthur Adams[19] [20] Simonson remained in all three positions through July Simonson, who had been writing the team comic The Avengershad gotten approval for Reed and Sue to join that team after Engelhart had written them out of Fantastic Four. Yet by The Avengerswhere they were scheduled to join the Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin, Simonson was told the characters were returning to Fantastic Four. This led to Simonson quitting The Avengers after that issue. Shortly afterward, he was offered the job of writing Fantastic Four. Having already prepared a number of stories involving the Avengers with Reed and Sue in the lineup, he then rewrote these for Fantastic Four. Simonson later recalled that working on Fantastic Four Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin him the latitude to use original Avengers members Thor and Iron Manwhich he had been precluded from using in The Avengers. After another fill-in, the regular team of writer and Marvel editor-in-chief Tom Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sinpenciller Paul Ryan and inker Dan Bulanadi took over, with Ryan self-inking beginning with Jan. That team, with the very occasional different inker, continued for years through July DeFalco nullified the Storm-Masters marriage by retconning that the alien Skrull Empire had kidnapped the real Masters and replaced her with a spy named Lyja. Ventura departed after being Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin mutated by Doctor Doom. Although Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin fans were not pleased with DeFalco's run on Fantastic Fourcalling him "The Great Satan", the title's sales increased over the period. The ongoing series was canceled with issue Sept. The yearlong volume retold the team's first adventures in a more contemporary style, [23] and set in a parallel universe. Following the end of that experiment, Fantastic Four was relaunched with vol. Initially by the team of writer Scott Lobdell and penciller Alan Davis[24] it went after three issues to writer Chris Claremont co-writing with Lobdell forpenciller Salvador Larrocaand inker Art Thibert ; this team enjoyed a long run through issue 32 Aug. At the time, the Marvel Comics series begun in the s, such as Thor and The Amazing Spider-Manwere given such dual numbering on the front cover, with the present-day volume's numbering alongside the numbering from the original series. Writer J. As a result of the events of the " Civil War " company-crossover storyline, the Black Panther and Storm temporarily replaced Reed and Susan Richards on the team. During that period, the Fantastic Four also appeared in Black Panther[27] [28] written by Reginald Hudlin and pencilled primarily by Francis Portela. Beginning with issue Aprilwriter Mark Millar and penciller Bryan Hitch began what Marvel announced as a sixteen-issue run. In the storyline "Three", which concluded in Fantastic Four cover date Marchpublished January 26,the Human Torch appears to die stopping a horde of monsters from the other-dimensional Negative Zone. The series ended with the following issue,and relaunched in March as simply FF. In Novemberto commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four and of Marvel Comics, the company published the page Fantastic Four cover-dated Jan. It revealed the fate of the character of Johnny Storm after issueshowing that while he did in fact die, he was resurrected to fight as a gladiator for Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin entertainment of Annihilus. Storm later formed a resistance force called Light Brigade and defeated Annihilus. As part of Marvel NOW! Fantastic Four ended withending Jonathan Hickman's long run on FF titles, and the title was relaunched in November with the creative team of writer Matt Fraction and artist Mark Bagley. Robinson later confirmed that Fantastic Four would be cancelled in with issuesaying that "The book is reverting to its original numbers, and the book is going away for a while. I'm moving towards the end of Fantastic Four. I just want to reassure people that you will not leave this book with a bad taste in your mouth. The first issue of The Fantastic Four proved Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin success, igniting Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin new direction for superhero comics and soon influencing many other superhero comics. Stan Lee was surprised at the reaction to the first issue, leading him to stay in the comics field despite previous plans to leave. Comics historian Stephen Krensky said that "Lee's natural dialogue and flawed characters appealed to s kids looking to 'get real'". As ofmillion Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin featuring the Fantastic Four had been sold. The Fantastic Four stories have been collected into several trade paperback and hardcover editions. As part of the Essential Marvel range:. As part of the Marvel Masterworks series:. As part of the Epic Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin series:. Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin translators were not Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin in their translations of the characters' code names; The Thing was called Coloso Colossus in the first series, La Mole in the second and the third which was the name used for The Hulk in the first series. The names of Dr. Doom and She-Hulk Fantastic Four Volume 2: Original Sin not translated into French for the Canadian reprints. British publication of the series began in the black and white anthology title Mystic in the s. In the feature was moved to Marvel UK's The Titans to revive flagging sales, starting with issue But after just a few months the feature was removed from The Titans replaced by The Avengers to form part of the line up of the new Captain Britain Weekly for its first issue in October As a back up strip it started serializing the FF's adventures from US Fantastic Four 1, but this was replaced by The Invaders towards the end of the run.