Appearing in "The Fall of the Fourth Reich?"
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Antagonists:
- Red Skull
- Red Skull followers
Other Characters:
Locations:
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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!"
Fantastic Four #121
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Antagonists:
- Air-Walker (Destroyed)
- Galactus (Galan) (Cameo)
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Items:
- "Horn of Gabriel"
- Power Cosmic
- Reed Richard's Beta Ray
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Synopsis for "The Mysterious Mind-Blowing Secret of Gabriel!"
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.
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!"
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Allistair Rampson (First appearance)
- Rachel MacGregor (First appearance)
- Countess Caution (First appearance)
- Angus MacGregor (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Nazis (Main story and flashback)
- Mycroft (Miles von Croff) (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Cameo) (Only in flashback)
- Unnamed U-477 crewmen (Only appearance; death) (Only in flashback)
- Sir Gavin Ravenlock (First appearance; dies)
- The "Hell Hound of Ravenlock" (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- U.S. Army (Mentioned)
- Ken Astor (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Adolf Hitler (Mentioned)
- Loch Ness Monster (Mentioned)
- Sam Hill (Invoked)
- Sir Black Hugh Ravenlock (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
- Hugh's hound (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- The Devil (Mentioned)
- Hugh's wife (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Hugh's brother (First appearance) (Shadow only) (Only in flashback)
- Cain (Mentioned)
- Abel (Mentioned)
- Lord Macbeth (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Referenced)
- God (Mentioned)
- Sherlock Holmes (Mentioned)
- Angus' brother (Rachel's father) (Mentioned)
- Rachel's mother (Mentioned) (Deceased)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Dogs (Main story and flashback)
- Horses (Referenced)
- Hellhounds (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United Kingdom (Main story and flashback)
- Scotland (Main story and flashback)
- Castle Ravenlock (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Tower of Terror (First appearance) (Destruction) (Main story and flashback)
- Loch Ness (Mentioned)
- Castle Ravenlock (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Scotland (Main story and flashback)
- Atlantic Ocean (Mentioned)
- United Kingdom (Main story and flashback)
- Hell (Referenced)
Vehicles:
- U-477 (Only appearance; destruction) (Only in flashback)
Events:
- World War II (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Dark Moon Rise, Hell-Hound Kill!"
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #3
Nick Fury has responded to a personal call from one of his World War II soldiers, Ken Astor; however, by the time Fury arrives at the mysterious Castle Ravenlock in Scotland, Ken has been killed by a ghostly "Hell-Hound" that lurks the grounds at night.
The dark mansion is 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. After several surreal encounters, Fury determines that the haunting of Castle Ravenlock is a ruse.
Mycroft is 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.
Wycroft is then accidentally slain by the Hell-Hound while fleeing from a skirmish with Fury; and in a strange twist of fate, young Rachel is determined to be the groundskeeper's, Angus MacGregor's, niece.
Appearing in "The Tomorrow War!"
Marvel Team-Up #9
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Antagonists:
- Tomorrow Man (Artur Zarrko)
- Citadel Security Force
- Security Officers
- Robot
- Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards)
Other Characters:
- NYPD Officers
- God (Mentioned)
- Sherlock Holmes (Mentioned)
- Billy Graham (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Avengers
- Vision (Cameo)
- Black Panther (T'Challa) (Cameo)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Cameo)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda) (Cameo)
- Quicksilver (Pietro) (Cameo)
- Thor (Odinson) (Cameo)
- Edwin Jarvis (Cameo)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Fifth Avenue
- Peter and Harry's Apartment
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- North America
- Earth
- Limbo
- 23rd Century (Earth-6297)
Items:
- Iron Man Armor Model 3
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Panther Habit
- Captain America's Shield
- Mjolnir (Behind the scenes)
Vehicles:
- Zarrrko's Flying Ship
Synopsis for "The Tomorrow War!"
Marvel Team-Up #9
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.