Appearing in "Burn, Witch, Burn!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- James "Jamie" Braddock (Only in flashback)
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Synopsis for "Burn, Witch, Burn!"
As a result of Dr. Synne's machinations, a young girl is about to be burned at the stake by a crazed mob. Can Captain Britain save her in time?
Appearing in "The Secret of the Eternals"
Fantastic Four #115
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Antagonists:
- Over-Mind (Grom) Template:1stRealName (Appears in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Eternals (Only in flashback)
- Gigantians (Only in flashback)
- Agatha Harkness (Mentioned)
- Raquel Welch (Mentioned)
- Aunt Petunia (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Watchers
- Eternals (Main story and flashback)
- Gigantians (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Milky Way
- Andromeda Galaxy (Only in flashback)
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Reaction Bombs (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "The Secret of the Eternals"
Fantastic Four #115
He shows them a distant galaxy where centuries ago existed the planet Eternus, home of the Eternals, a warrior race who had mastered science and conquered death. They went out into the stars, enslaving every world they came in contact with. Having subjugated the known universe, the Eternals then began amusing themselves by pitting their alien slaves against their greatest warriors in arena combat. One of their greatest warriors was a man named Grom who won the title of Champion of Champions among the Eternals. However, the Eternals soon became aware of the massive planet of Gigantus, a world that dwarfed galaxies. The Gigantians soon became aware that the Eternals sought to conquer their world and prepared to oppose their attackers.
The Eternals found that the task of conquering Gigantus was difficult due to the massive size of that world. Ultimately, they decided to destroy the entire world instead of enslaving it. As Gigantus was destroyed by massive bombs, some survivors managed to escape the death of their home world. The Watcher explained that the ruins of Gigantus spread across the known universe and eventually formed into new worlds and stars. The last survivors of Gigantus then flew their ships to Eternus and attacked. As their world crumbled around them, the greatly diminished Eternals all transferred their minds into one being -- Grom. Reborn into the Over-Mind, the rulers of Eternus placed him in a state of suspended animation and launched him into space. There the Over-Mind slumbered for centuries until the faithful day that he would awaken and strike at the universe in revenge for his people. Finishing his tale, the Watcher tells the Fantastic Four that is all he can tell and that he can offer no aid before teleporting away.
As the Fantastic Four begin wondering what to do next, Reed turns uncharacteristically cold toward his teammates, telling them that he can stop the Over-Mind without them, as they always hamper his work. The Thing quickly clues in that Reed must be under the control of the Over-Mind. With the truth revealed, Mister Fantastic begins attacking his teammates. The Fantastic Four try to subdue Reed, but he is too smart for them, managing to escape thanks to his malleable body. Reed's departure leaves the Fantastic Four to wonder how they can stop the Over-Mind, and not harm Reed in the process, let alone face an entire world that has appeared to turn against them.Appearing in "Nightmare!"
Strange Tales #164
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Victoria Bentley (Vision or hallucination)
Antagonists:
- Giant Slug (First appearance)
- Yandroth (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Baron Mordo (Mordo) (Mentioned in narration)
- Nebulos (Mentioned in narration)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Valtor (Invoked)
- Ancient One (Mentioned in narration)
- Belial (Invoked)
- Living Tribunal (Mentioned)
- Clea (Mentioned in narration)
- Umar (Mentioned in narration)
- Seraphim (Invoked)
- Ragadoor (Invoked)
- Watoomb (Mentioned in narration)
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Locations:
- Earthspace
- Geuliscwarz (First appearance; unnamed)
- Yann (First appearance; unnamed)
- Geuliscwarz (First appearance; unnamed)
- Dark Dimension (Mentioned in narration)
- Hades (Mentioned)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Spells
- Vapors of Valtorr (Invoked)
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Mentioned in narration)
- Horns of Belial (Invoked)
- Flames of the Faltine (Invoked))
- Spell of Vanishment (Mentioned in narration)
- Shades of the Seraphim (Invoked)
- Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Wand of Watoomb (Mentioned in narration)
Synopsis for "Nightmare!"
Strange Tales #164
Notes
- Published by Marvel UK
- The 2nd story is a reprint of the first half of Fantastic Four #115 in black and white.
- The 3rd story is a reprint of the first half of Strange Tales #164 also in black and white.
- This is the first issue with Gary Friedrich as the writer for the series.