Published: March 2nd, 2017
Written by: Stan Lee
Art by: Jack Kirby
Marvel Comics, 271 Pages
Review:
As much as I like how this series has grown and evolved over the first eight Masterworks collections, I liked that this volume scaled back a little bit and brought things back to basics and with that, brought back two of the Fantastic Four’s earliest villains, Doctor Doom and the Mole Man.
This also features the Inhumans and has Crystal still filling in for Sue Storm on the team but we do get to see Sue come back and get in on the action a bit.
The Skrulls also return and it feels like they’ve been MIA for too long.
Overall, this is another really great volume in a stupendous comic book series.
I keep saying that Lee and Kirby improve with each volume and that’s still true, here. By this point, they have created such a rich, large mythos in the Marvel universe, as a whole, that I think they felt confident in slowing things down a bit and bringing our heroes up against their best foes, as opposed to creating another round of new baddies.
That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy new Lee and Kirby villains, I actually love them, but I was yearning for the classic baddies to return and this definitely filled that void. In fact, this features one of my favorite Doctor Doom story arcs of all-time.
Rating: 8.75/10
Pairs well with: the other Marvel Masterworks collections.
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