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Cover: John Byrne

Fantastic Four #292

Jul 1986 · Marvel · 0.75 USD; 0.40 GBP; 0.95 CAD
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“The Man Who Dreamed the World”

Few moral dilemmas hit harder than the one blazing across John Byrne's cover for this July 1986 issue: a gun-wielding Nick Fury charges forward with clear intent, while She-Hulk, the Invisible Woman, and a flaming Human Torch surge behind him — all converging on a coldly glowering Adolf Hitler looming in the foreground. The cover's dueling caption boxes ("Nick Fury is going to KILL Adolf Hitler!" / "And we've got to STOP him!! Or do we?") frame a genuinely thorny ethical question that the team must wrestle with. "The Man Who Dreamed the World" promises the kind of morally charged adventure that made Byrne's FF run one of the more thoughtful stretches in the title's long history.

writer, artist John Byrne · inker Al Gordon · colorist Glynis Oliver · letterer John Workman · cover John Byrne

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writer, artist John Byrne
inker Al Gordon
colorist Glynis Oliver
letterer John Workman
cover pencils, inks John Byrne

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Trapped in 1936, the Fantastic Four attempt to prevent Fury from killing Hitler; they fail and as Hitler is shot, the Fantastic Four wake up in a SHIELD base and find that Reed is still alive. He explains how he escaped the Negative Zone and that their time in 1936 was all part of the dream of the mutant Licorice Calhoun.

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