Issue Description

“World’s Greatest” concludes! It’s the ultimate engine of peace pitted against Reed Richards’ most lethal invention, for all the marbles! And a shocking final page that’ll have you feeling every minute of the thirty-day wait until the next issue!

Reed smashes Alyssa's robot with his even-bigger robot.

Then he turns Alyssa down.

And goes on a time-travelling anniversary dinner with Sue.

Johnny finds his criminal girlfriend lying naked on his bed with strategically-placed money she just stole from a bank, and still can't help himself.

Doom arrives at the Baxter Building, demanding to see Reed Richards...

Hmm, interesting. Looking over Millar's whole first arc, there's a lot of approve of, but some quibbles with the execution of the threat. CAP is totally perfunctory, and not even Millar in this issue seems to really be all that invested in him. "World's Greatest" serves as a platform to introduce Millar's various long-term plots, and CAP is blatantly only here to give the Fantastic Four someone to fight. His defeat is not particularly creative (Reed smashes the big robot with his ever-bigger robot), though it does play into the whole issue of Alyssa's feelings for Reed (namely, that Alyssa put Reed's name on the list of people CAP can't hurt). Around that, though, there's a lot to like here; following CAP's loss, we get a series of epilogues, all of which work great; the characterization is good, and Sue and Reed's anniversary dinner is a particularly fun mix of sci-fi and romantic comedy. All this plus the promise of lots of Doctor Doom in the next issue.

Fantastic Four (1998)

Publisher

Marvel

Volume Description

The foursome returns from the Heroes Reborn universe and take their place as Marvel's first family. The volume ran for 70 issues and before it reverted to the Fantastic Four (vol. 1) numbering with issue #500 (71) , collecting three volumes in one.

With issue #588 the series was replaced with a new comic named "FF (vol. 1)" (or Future Foundation) for 11 issues before returning to the Fantastic Four title with issue #600. The FF series also continued from issue 12 as a spin-off to the Fantastic Four.

The series ended with issue #611 when it was relaunched with a new volume as part of the Marvel NOW! event.

Collected Editions Flesh and Stone (#35-39) Into the Breach (#40-45) Resurrection of Galactus (#46-50, Annual #31) Fantastic Four/Inhumans (#51-54) Imaginauts (#56-66) Unthinkable (#67-70 & #500-502)Authoritative Action (#503-508)Hereafter (#509-513)Disassembled (#514-519)Rising Storm (#520-524)The Beginning of the End (#525-526, #551-553)Fantastic Four By J. Michael Straczynski (#527-532)The Life Fantastic (#533-535, Special #1)The Road to Civil War (#536-537)Civil War (#538-543)The New Fantastic Four (#544-550)World's Greatest (#554-561)The Master of Doom (#562-569)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1 (#570-574)Fantastic Four By Hickman Omnibus Vol. 1 (#570-588)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 2 (#575-578)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 3 (#579-582)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 4 (#583-588)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 5 (#600-604)Fantastic Four By Hickman Omnibus Vol. 2 (#600-611 & 605.1)Fantastic Four By Jonathan Hickman Vol. 6 (#605-611, 605.1)Secret Wars Prelude (#611)

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