LES QUATRE FANTASTIQUES PAR JOHN BYRNE t.1-2

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(il semblerait même qu’il ait été conçu comme un comics promotionnel à la base, pour le compte de… Coca-Cola ; je n’en sais pas plus sur les tenants et aboutissants)

C’est évoqué dans la préface d’un des masterworks FF :

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http://m.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40294&PN=23&TPN=1

Salicrup (Fantastic Four Masterworks Vol. 22) : « At some point I was asked to edit a project creating special comics that would be given away as premiums as part of a promotion with Coca-Cola. The comics were Spider-Man , The Incredible Hulk and the Fantastic Four . I got John Byrne to write and pencil the FF comic. Coca-Cola at some point changed their mind, and decided they’d rather have posters with the origins of the characters as their giveaway premium, so I had Roger Stern write the posters and John Byrne pencil the FF poster, which Joe Sinnott inked. That FF Coca-Cola comic, written and laid out by John Byrne, with finished art by Joe Sinnott, wound up becoming Fantastic Four #220. A year later, John was the new writer and artist on Fantastic Four . Oh, and I was the editor. »

https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legend-revealed-48/3/

« Byrne (Comic Creators on the Fantastic Four) : Jim Salicrup, who was editing Fantastic Four at the time, called me up one day and asked me if I would like to do a comic book that would distrbuted by Coca-Cola. They wanted me to use the Fantastic Four, so I came up with a self-contained, very innocuous kind of story because that was what Coke wanted. They didn’t want anything huge and cosmic with planets exploding or anything like that. My story was slightly less than a double-sized issue, and when it was all finished, Coca-Cola said that the story was much too violent. If you go back and look at it, you’ll see that the Thing hits a couple of robots. But it was too violent for Coca-Cola and they rejected it. Jim suggested we cut it in half, add a couple of pages and turn it into two issues of Fantastic Four. They’re the two dullest issues of the FF ever published. »