It was a run populated by villains like the warlock Nicholas Scratch (son of Agatha Harkness) and his demonic Salem’s Seven, and other minor figures such as Firefrost, Ebon Seeker, and Stygorr. “Moench and Sienkiewicz penned less than a year’s worth of stories. Joe Sinnott, inking Sienkiewicz’s pencils, made the work look more similar to those Fantastic Four artists who came before him. At the time the latter drew with a classic, smooth style, influenced by the realistic line work of his idols Neal Adams and John Buscema. “John Byrne, the artist who together with Chris Claremont turned the X-Men into Marvel’s best-selling title, would leave an indelible mark on the Fantastic Four in the 1980s But before Byrne began his historic run, versatile writer Doug Moench started working on Fantastic Four with issue #219 (June 1980) (opens in new tab), with art by Bill Sienkiewicz.
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