Fantastic four: countdown to chaos

World chaos--courtesy of the Mad Thinker! The Mad Thinker, with the aid of the Red Ghost and his Super Apes, has hatched a worldwide conspiracy. He has placed lifelike duplicates of hundreds of key people throughout the world--including Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four! The remaining members of the FF must work frantically to uncover the Thinker's plan before his duplicates are able to wreak havoc across the globe...

Over 1 million Marvel novels in print
Fantastic Four Vol. 2, #1 was the bestselling comic book of the month when it was released in the fall of '96, and the title has been in the top ten ever since
Askegren co-authored the Doom's Day trilogy of Spider-Man team-up novels
Illustrator Paul Ryan was the artist and co-plotter of the Fantastic Four comic book for four years