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Appearing in "The Fall of the Fourth Reich?"

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Synopsis for "The Fall of the Fourth Reich?"

With Captain America and the Prime Minister still prisoners of the Red Skull, Captain Britain is in a race against time to save them, but Chief Inspector Dai Thomas does not believe him...

Appearing in "The Mysterious Mind-Blowing Secret of Gabriel!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #121

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Synopsis for "The Mysterious Mind-Blowing Secret of Gabriel!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #121

Brief Summary:
The Fantastic Four attempt to figure out who is Gabriel and what are his intentions for the Earth. They instead face the full power and fury of the Air-Walker. They attempt to fight back, but are hopelessly overpowered. It is at that point that the Silver Surfer decides to intervene. The Surfer is attacked by the Air-Walker, but quickly recovers and knocks him out of the sky. He crashes to the ground and is revealed to be a robot. Just then Galactus appears above the heroes.

Fantastic Four Vol 1 121 001

Detailed Summary:
Gabriel the Air-Walker has appeared on Earth and has announced that the planet Earth is doomed. When Reed Richards attempts to protest, Gabriel balks at his appeal in the name of humanity and hurls the Fantastic Four and other bystanders away in a gust of wind. As the Fantastic Four scramble to save those endangered by the powerful winds, Gabriel calls an end to the storm. When one of the bystanders suggests that they surrender to Gabriel in the hopes that he will show mercy, the Thing gets upset and is about to strike the man when Reed gets in the way. Seeing this, Gabriel then orders the gathered masses to destroy the Fantastic Four. The FF are shocked when the people around them begin to follow Gabriel's orders. However, regardless of the crowd's attempts to kill the Fantastic Four, the Human Torch sends them fleeing with his flame powers.

Seeking to address the world in the hopes of keeping things calm, the Fantastic Four enter a nearby television studio. When the guards refuse to let them into one of the studios, they subdue them and continue on anyway. When they get up into the newsroom, they find nobody is working. When Reed asks a newscaster why nobody is doing anything, he is shown reports from around the world of complete hopelessness in the streets as people have come to believe Gabriel's claims that the world is doomed. With no time left and the authorities coming up to the studio, the Fantastic Four make a quick exit to the roof and rush back to the Baxter Building.

There, Reed sends Johnny and Ben ahead to the Fantasti-Car while he and Sue collect a weapon constructed in his lab. They then rush after Gabriel who has resumed his walking across the Earth. Over New York Harbor, Reed tries to blast Gabriel with his weapon, but it has no effect on him. Gabriel responds in kind by trying to drop a freighter ship on them. Making an emergency landing on the water, the Fantastic Four narrowly avoid getting crushed but are capsized. Gabriel then uses his power to create a massive tsunami that washes the Fantastic Four back into New York in a lethal flood. The Fantastic Four get to safety, but, when Gabriel confronts the Thing, he chastises the alien for senselessly drowning the people down in the streets below. Gabriel responds by calling back the water before anyone is killed

As Reed and Sue rejoin the rest of the team, both Ben and Johnny try their best to attack Gabriel at full force, but he manages to overpower them. Watching this from the sub-stratosphere is the Silver Surfer. Unable to simply continue to watch events unfold, he decides to deal with the threat himself and flies to New York. The Surfer is shocked to learn that luring him out was the Air-Walker's plan all along. The Surfer and Gabriel fight it out, but just when it appears that Gabriel has the upper hand, the Surfer unleashes the full force of his Power Cosmic. When Gabriel falls to the ground, he smashes into pieces, revealing to everyone gathered that he was nothing more than a robot. With the battle over, the Fantastic Four wonder who sent Gabriel. Suddenly, Galactus appears in the sky above them telling them that the world is indeed doomed.

Appearing in "Dark Moon Rise, Hell-Hound Kill!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3

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  • Nazis (Main story and flashback)
    • Mycroft (Miles von Croff) (First appearance; dies)
    • Numerous unnamed U-477 crewmen (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
  • Sir Gavin Ravenlock (First appearance; dies)
  • "Hell Hound of Ravenlock" (First appearance; dies)

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  • Humans (Main story and flashback)
  • Dogs (Main story and flashback)
  • Horses (Mentioned in narration or thoughts)
  • Hellhounds (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Dark Moon Rise, Hell-Hound Kill!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3

Nick Fury arrives at Castle Ravenlock, in Scotland, after receiving a cablegram from one of his former subordinates, Ken Astor, that served with him during World War II in the United States Army. At the castle he speaks with its owner's stepson Alistair Rampson who informs Colonel Fury that Ken Astor has been killed while he was employed as the local constable by the "Hell-Hound" that haunts the moors after dark.

The two men are soon joined by three psychic investigators: Mycroft, Countess Caution, and a young girl named Rachel. Rachel is especially sensitive to psychic phenomenon and other things unseen, as ironically, Rachel is blind. Rachel informs Fury of her condition after he saves her from a suit of armor almost falling on top of her. The incident is cut short however when Angus McGregor, the caretaker, enters from the hall and informs Alistair that the Lord of the Castle and his step-father, Gavin Ravenlock, hasn't yet returned home.

Alistair brushes off the Lord's absence and informs Angus that he was about to explain the curse of the grounds. Angus takes the lead of the tale and informs the group that a hundred years before he became caretaker the Lord of the Castle, Hugh Ravenlock, also called Black Hugh was killed. Hugh had sought his wife and his brother after the two fled from him him due to his "brutish ways". Hugh tracked him down with his hound and while the hound attacked Hugh's wife, Hugh was killed by his brother. It is said that Hugh Black now haunts the grounds with his hound in search for his brother to seek revenge.

After the tale the psychic investigators prepare and begin a seance to call forth the ghosts that haunt the castle. Rachel senses something when an apparition appears with a blade and attacks her. Fury jumps in and parries the very solid blade with one of his own that snaps. Fury grabs two dirks and is able to defeat the ghost who after striking with the daggers seems to fade away. After the ghost vanishes the group notices Rachel has disappeared and is spotted on the moors. Fury is gifted a gun by Mycroft and jumps through a nearby window to quickly make his was to the blind girl before she is about to be attacked by the "Hell-Hound". Fury attempts to shoot the hound but the bullets seemingly do nothing. Fury fights with the hound before the others regroup with him and the hound is absent. Fury injured but alive gets his wounds bandaged and soon after can hear the sound of Mycroft's calls who informs Countess Caution, Fury, and Rachel that he found Lord Gavin Ravenlock dead on the moors.

After the several surreal encounters, Fury determines that the haunting of Castle Ravenlock is a ruse and asks the others to take Gavin's body back to the castle while he looks around. Before doing so Fury asks Alistair about a towered structure on the grounds to which Alistair replies that it is called the "Tower of Terror" and that it use to be used to keep prisoners for interrogation purposes but now it is simply a crumbling monument and a deathtrap.

The group then parts but Rachel insists on going with Fury. Fury and Rachel make their way to the tower and Rachel guides Fury to multiple secret passages within that lead to an underground area within the tower. Fury enters the passage and asks Rachel to wait behind. While waiting Rachel is attacked by Mycroft who is after he attempts to enter the underground passage through the iron maiden. Fury had blocked the door from opening and instead of running and pushing it open he ran straight into its spikes and while doing so he called forth the hound which attempted to jump on Fury but Fury dodge out of the way which cause the hound to close shut the iron maiden fully, killing Mycroft.

Back at Castle Ravenlock Fury informs the others of what he had found in the underground area. In the hideout he learned through a record room that Mycroft was actually Miles von Croff, an escaped Nazi who had placed an underground submarine station at Ravenlock during World War II who partnered with the lord of the manor, Sir Gavin Ravenlock, before turning the "Hell-Hound" upon him too to throw off suspicions. The two worked together with Miles von Croff and his crew working as modern day pirates supplying Gavin treasures in exchange for a place of safety his identity of a psychic investigator was just a ruse to give Croff and excuse to travel without being questioned. Rachel as Croff's ward was completely oblivious to the shady side of Mycroft and she was to be his next victim to ensure she couldn't eventually find out his true identity.

Fury further explains that before he left he crossed the submarine's fuel lines and all the rumbling they're now feeling must mean it exploded and the "Tower of Terror" collapsed on them. In a strange twist of fate, young Rachel is told by Angus that it was his brother that left her to Mycroft before he died of sickness and that her mother had died during childbirth. Angus offers Rachel to stay with him at the Castle while Fury and the Countess leave together to swap some ghost stories of their own.

Appearing in "The Tomorrow War!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #9

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  • Zarrko's Flying Ship

Synopsis for "The Tomorrow War!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Marvel Team-Up #9
Avengers Mansion from Marvel Team-Up Vol 1 9 001
The people of Manhattan are in for a shock when Avengers Mansion begins to shake violently and briefly blink out of existence. Arriving on the scene is Iron Man, who tries to get into the mansion to see what is causing this situation. Unfortunately, there is some kind of barrier that is preventing him from entering the mansion. At that moment, Peter Parker is watching the situation unfold on television and debates going to help as Spider-Man. His mind is made up when his roommate, Harry Osborn, yells at him for having the television up too loud and slams the door. Soon, Spider-Man arrives at Avengers Mansion. Just as Iron Man is telling Spider-Man that he can handle this on his own when suddenly a portal opens through the barrier.

The pair jumps through and they end up falling into another dimension, a strange world where highly advanced ships dogfighting above them. When Iron Man flies up to try and stop the battle from continuing, one of the ships catches the armored Avenger in a tractor beam. The ship then lands and from it emerges Zarrko the Tomorrow Man. He tells the two heroes that they have a mutual enemy that they must stop and invites them aboard his ship. He then flies through the time barrier to the 23rd Century. He explains that his era was invaded by their mutual foe due to the fact that his era is defenseless. He flies them over a facility where the Avengers are being held captive. Spider-Man and Iron Man then leap out to the ground below and engage the guards standing outside. They easily get past the guards and defenses until they are attacked by a massive cyborg. During the cyborgs opening salvo, Iron Man's power source is damaged. Spider-Man quickly incapacitates the cyborg while Iron Man reroutes his circuits to restore full power.

Meanwhile, outside, Zarrko lands his ship as the time storm that prevented him from entering has dissipated enough to let him enter the fortress himself. With his plan succeeding, Zarrko believes that he is on the cusp of ruling all time. Elsewhere in the facility, Spider-Man and Iron Man have found the room where the Avengers are being held in stasis. They also discover that their foe is none other than Kang the Conqueror. The evil time traveller blasts both heroes with a bolt of energy that knocks them out. However, before Kang can deal with them, Zarrko arrives hoping to take control of Kang's plot to take over the present.

Notes

  • Published by Marvel UK
  • The 2nd story is a reprint of the first half of Fantastic Four #121 in black and white.
  • The 3rd story is a reprint of the first part of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3 also in black and white.
  • The 4th story is a reprint of the first part of Marvel Team-Up #9 also in black and white.
  • Gary Friedrich is credited with the story, but shares a credit with Larry Lieber for "dialogue"

Trivia

  • Starting with this issue, the series reverts to black and white, just like the reprinted strips.

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