as I read

• John Byrne (v1 220 - 221; 232 - 295)
• Marv Wolfman (v1 190;195 - 215)
• Steve Englehart (v1 304 - 325)
  • In my honest opinion his writing was solid enough, but Reed and Sue were gone for WAAAAAAAAAAAY too long. This was the first run I ever found myself skimming issues just so I could get ahead of it all.
• Roy Thomas (v1 119; 126 - 113; 136; 157 - 179; Fantastic Four Unlimited 1 - 7; 9 - 12)
• Gerry Conway (v1 134 - 152; 179; Giant-Sized Fantastic Four 2-3)
• Stan Lee (v1 1 - 114; 120 - 125)
  • I feel a bit bad for putting Stan the Man in this spot, but in his defense it was a ... different time.

We hardly knew ye! (Or, the writers did not have time to cook)

• Archie Goodwin (v1 115 - 118)
• Len Wein (v1 154 - 156; 182; 184 - 188; 191 - 194)
• Bill Mantlo (v1 183; 216 - 218)
• Doug Moench (v1 219; 222 - 231)
• Roger Stern Fantastic Four (v1 294 - 295, 297 - 302)
  • Bless him for bringing Ben back, but dear God the "woe is me" level of griping was probably even worse than Stan Lee's run and made no sense when taking into account how Ben got back to them.
• John Harkness (v1 326-333)
• Danny Fingaroth (v1 342)