A billion years ago (or what it feels like but really sometime in 1984) John Byrne and Terry Austin started what some consider to be one of the most compelling Marvel stories ever written...The Last Galactus Story. For those who do not know, it was serialized in Marvel's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated. The serialization began in EI #26 under a gorgeous Bill Sienkiewicz cover and continued until the magazine's cancelation with issue 34 with only nine chapters of the story having been printed.
The story is set during the time that Frankie Raye, Nova was his herald and begins with a big bang that set forth the Marvel Universe and continues to it's cliffhanger detailing how Frankie stumbled upon a dead world. In the story we are given the origin per se it appears of Galactus as well as what was planned as his demise and what would have happened next. (According to what I read it would have been big things for Frankie Raye, which wouldn't have been a big surprise as she seems to be one of Byrne's favorite characters he created at the time.)
I've only seen scans online of pages and it does feature Burne and Austin at their best on art and it is all quite excellent. Forty years later, the story still has not been finished although on his website, Byrne gave a synopsis of how it would end. It's a shame Marvel never allowed Byrne to finish the story in print for a collected edition.
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