Fantastic Four II

304-332

This page: 322-325

...At this point, Marvel made its infamous decision that innovation should end. The initial impact was felt on WEST COAST AVENGERS, where my Mantis storyline was first eviscerated and then abolished. To try to salvage her, I took her untold storyline and moved it, with middling success, to the FF. To protest the end of what had been "the House of Ideas," I changed my byline to S. F. X. Englehart, using the standard abbreviation for simple Sound Effects.

But the writing was on the wall... [To Be Continued on the following page]

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