My Fantastic Four-ay: Part Eight.

And so it came to pass, in the mid-1980s, that John Byrne wrapped up his five year run on Fantastic Four, as reported here in the March 1986 issue of The Comics Journal: (Please forgive the pixelation, as I increased the size from the source image from here.) It’s all very…politic, with Byrne’s “on everything” seemingly bearin a lot of weight, especially in light of some later interviews. The Comics Journal mentions instances of editorial interference on some of Byrne’s books in then-recent months, such as pages of <cite>Fantastic Four #286 being redrawn, and an issue of his Incredible Hulk run being pulled from publication*. A link found on this page shows up this 2005 Comic Book Resources interview, now accessible at archive.org, where Byrne says “JB: A lot of factors, most internal office politics, contributed to my finding myself in a position, creatively, where doing the best work I could was simply not good enough. Not for the FF, anyway. I fear I am one of those artists who is…