Fantastic Four #233 – Marvel (1981) 7.5 VF- John Byrne story | Terry Austin cover | Newsstand Edition

Fantastic Four #233 – Marvel (1981) 7.5 VF- John Byrne story | Terry Austin cover | Newsstand Edition

Johnny launches his own investigation into the murder of one of his old high school bullies. How's the Maggia involved?Mission For a Dead Man!Byrne's second issue of the FF was a murder/mystery tale wherein Byrne made the improbable (but good) choice to make Johnny Storm the detective of the story. The story opens at Deeden State Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison where criminals were sent to die for their crimes. Once such criminal is George David Munson who presents a priest, Father Albert Vito, an envelope to give to Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch. Father Vito shows up two weeks later at the Baxter Building and is escorted to the FF's headquarters by Susan Richards (who kinda scares the bejeezus out of him by appearing out of thin air). The two of them walk straight into a harsh and dirty skirmish between Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, The Thing (NOTE: Byrne kind of threw back to the early days of the FF by seemingly constantly having Ben and Johnny at each other's...