John Byrne wrote: When I did that drawing of Galactus I was still a fan artist, and had read perhaps a third of the Galactus stories published so far. I had not even read his origin, as told in THOR (as you can tell from the fact that my unmasked Galactus looks nothing like Galen, the being who became Galactus). By the time I came to write and draw Galactus in FF I had absorbed all there was to know about the character (up to that point) and had a much broader comprehension of who and what he was. You know -- kinda like how you knew more in High School than you did in kindergarten.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for clearing the water up there.

I was curious about the origins of that piece. 

I believe you have the last word in what Galactus is and will be, mostly

because I feel that your "Last Galactus Story" is one of the finest and most

enjoyable comicbook scifi stories I've ever read.  And I read a lot of science

fiction. And I love it. 

Just to think that he who made it out of the last Universe, lives the entire breath

of time in the present universe ends up destroying it when he

unmasks himself and then to have a human being from Earth become

the first being of another Universe. In effect a god.  That is just great storytelling.

Thanks for those Epic Illustrated Mags.  If there is ever the slightest inkling from

someone at Marvel to give you the go ahead on the conclusion, I know I and a

host of other Marvel fans would pay truck loads to see "the end" from your pen.

I have a request.

Does anyone have scans of the entire run of Funky Winkerbean that JB drew?

I would love to see them.