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John Byrne


Born
in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, The United Kingdom
July 06, 1960

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Comics & Graphic Novels, Science Fiction & Fantasy


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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the fi ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 162,321 ratings · 11,312 reviews · 2,873 distinct works • Similar authors
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Superman (1987-2006) #1
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“I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”
― John Byrne, Batman/Captain America
tags: joker, nazis, patriotism, the-joker, wwii
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“Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ours is the power to prevent it?

- Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic)”
― John Byrne, The Fantastic Four: The Trial of Galactus
tags: compassion, death, life, power-of-life-and-death, sanctity-of-life
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“Gudda Gudda,”
― John Byrne, Drake
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