Fantastic Four By Ryan North Vol. 5: Aliens, Ghosts And Alternate Earths

Author Ryan North
Cover Design or Artwork by Alex Ross
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On sale Apr 15, 2025 | 144 Pages | 9781302960650

Hit author Ryan North continues his ever-surprising FANTASTIC FOUR run!

When a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old vehicle dug out of storage to save the world — plus some super-science! Then, Earth is invaded by subatomic particles from the other side of the universe — and when Mister Fantastic discovers the horrifying truth, he finds out there are some things in the universe even he and his family’s powers can’t stop! And when an excursion to Latveria magically sends the FF to an alien world, survival will be difficult on a planet so unlike our own, with a civilization hundreds of years behind ours — and it doesn’t get any easier when Johnny Storm hooks up with one of its residents! But what is this world's terrible secret?

COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (2022) 23-27
Writer Ryan North went the self-publishing route to launch his comics career with Dinosaur Comics, which has run for more than 2,000 web-based strips. He describes it as basically the best job ever. In 2012, he was tapped by BOOM! Studios to write its new Adventure Time series based on the popular cartoon. His Marvel debut came in 2014 when he penned the Young Avengers chapters of Original Sins. North propelled an unlikely character to solo title success with the Eisner Award-winning series The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and took Lockjaw solo in the pages of Inhumans: Once and Future Kings. He rewrote the Shakespeare rulebook with Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure.

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Hit author Ryan North continues his ever-surprising FANTASTIC FOUR run!

When a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old vehicle dug out of storage to save the world — plus some super-science! Then, Earth is invaded by subatomic particles from the other side of the universe — and when Mister Fantastic discovers the horrifying truth, he finds out there are some things in the universe even he and his family’s powers can’t stop! And when an excursion to Latveria magically sends the FF to an alien world, survival will be difficult on a planet so unlike our own, with a civilization hundreds of years behind ours — and it doesn’t get any easier when Johnny Storm hooks up with one of its residents! But what is this world's terrible secret?

COLLECTING: Fantastic Four (2022) 23-27

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Writer Ryan North went the self-publishing route to launch his comics career with Dinosaur Comics, which has run for more than 2,000 web-based strips. He describes it as basically the best job ever. In 2012, he was tapped by BOOM! Studios to write its new Adventure Time series based on the popular cartoon. His Marvel debut came in 2014 when he penned the Young Avengers chapters of Original Sins. North propelled an unlikely character to solo title success with the Eisner Award-winning series The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and took Lockjaw solo in the pages of Inhumans: Once and Future Kings. He rewrote the Shakespeare rulebook with Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure.

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