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Appearing in "The Shape of Things to Come!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #162

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Synopsis for "The Shape of Things to Come!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #162

With the Reed Richards from another dimension currently a hostage of Arkon, he breaks free from his restraints and tries to escape, however, he's easily restrained by Arkon and is shackled in Adamantium bonds. Arkon has his aide explain the progress from his plan: As it turns out they have orchestrated to send three different realities to attack to each other. Having acquired technology from all worlds Arkon has had his agents attack the 5th Dimension with Earth-A's Andrones, Earth-A by beings from other time periods through Dr. Doom's time machine, and lastly by using the 5th Dimensions freezing technology to turn the Fantastic Four's world into a frozen wasteland. They then drug the Earth-A Thing and leave him behind.

On the Fantastic Four's world, Mr. Fantastic is hurrying to try and come up with technology to thaw out the giant glaciers that are forming on their Earth when they are suddenly attacked by a barbarian. Reed dispatches it, but due to his waning powers, it causes him considerable discomfort however he hides this from Sue. Reed is then painfully mind linked with his Earth-A counterpart. The Thing-Richards explains to him that he comes from another world where he became the Thing instead of Ben Grimm. He explains that his robotics technologies was purchased by Albert DeVoor, representing a company called Inter-Related Technocracies Unlimited, the same man who purchased technology from the 5th Dimension under a company called Inter-Politan Thermo-Dynamics Unlimited. Reed realizes that the same man bought technologies from Fantastic Four Inc. representing a company called Interlocking Technologies Unlimited and is simply a lackey of Arkon. Realizing the connection, the two Reed's combine their mental strength to allow the Earth-A Richards to use his strength to free himself from captivity.

On the Fantastic Four's world, Reed and Sue go to the office of Interlocking Technologies to pay a visit to Mr. DeVoor. While the Earth-A Thing realizes that he is in his own world and breaks free. Spotting a newspaper reporting the capture of the Ben Grimm-Thing, Reed storms to the military holding facility where he is being held and easily frees him. The two up faced with a military battalion led by Earth-A's version of General Ross. Using his credentials, Reed manages to stall the army long enough to explain to everything to General Ross when they are interrupted by the Earth-A's Ben Grimm who points out a rift opening between worlds. To their surprise it's a portal to the 5th Dimension and the Human Torch is leading an invasion force across into Earth-A's realm. The Thing manages to easily take down Johnny and the two Thing's explain to him what's going on. Johnny manages to convince the people of the 5th Dimension to return to their own world to await a solution to the situation.

Fed up of the situation, General Ross attempts to capture them, however, Johnny keeps them at bay with his flame powers when they are suddenly contacted telepathically. Reed explains to them what he's forced DeVoor to reveal to him: That the intent of forcing the three worlds to go to war with one another is to trigger nuclear strikes on all three worlds, the combined nuclear holocausts would create sufficient nuclear energy through a dimension nexus to revitalize Arkon's world. Reed offers up only two solutions to the problem: Closing the dimensional rift or stopping Arkon directly. He warns them though that only one person can enter the realm where the Nexus resides. Giving them cosmic "skates" to travel between realms and the device to close the Nexus, Reed sends his Earth-A counterpart, Ben, and Johnny onto their missions.

Ben finds himself on his own into the realm where the Nexus is located and finds that it has a lone guardian, a hockey-inspired being called Gaard who vows that he will stop the Thing from succeeding in his mission even if he has to kill to do so.

Appearing in "The Merciless Puppet Master"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #14

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Synopsis for "The Merciless Puppet Master"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #14

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 14 Title

The Fantastic Four are returning from their adventure on the moon, landing their rocket at the airport greeted by a crowd of their fans. Exiting the ship they are swamped by fans, as well as fame seekers such as the wrestler known as the Golden Angel who challenges the Thing to a fight, with disastrous results. After Sue is harassed by Hollywood agents the Human Torch helps his teammates flee back to the Baxter Building by creating a hot air funnel to carry them back home. After settling in, Reed is disturbed to find Sue monitoring the world's oceans to try and find the Sub-Mariner, damaging his self-esteem and leaving him to question the future of their relationship.

Phillip Masters (Earth-616) from Fantastic Four Vol 1 14 0001

Meanwhile, at a local sanitarium, the Puppet Master -- having survived his last encounter with the Fantastic Four[Continuity 1] -- has been released to start his life over. However, the Puppet Master is far from cured and seeks to get revenge against the Fantastic Four.[Continuity 2] After some consideration, the Puppet Master decides to use his special clay to make the Sub-Mariner his slave and pit him against their mutual foes. Enslaved, the Sub-Mariner returns to his empty kingdom of Atlantis and uses his Mento-Fish to send out a communication asking Sue to come to him. When she meets up with Namor at the docks, he kidnaps her and takes her back to his undersea realm. The Puppet Master then forces Namor to contact the Fantastic Four, telling them that he has the Invisible Girl prisoner and taunt them into coming to rescue her. The Puppet Master then boards a sub to watch the battle from close by.

Hypno-Fish from Fantastic Four Vol 1 14 0002

After the Thing picks up his girlfriend Alicia Masters, the Fantastic Four take a sub of their own to the Sub-Mariner's domain. After fighting through the various undersea defenses,[Continuity 3] Reed, Johnny and Ben confront Namor in his throne room. With Sue trapped in a glass sphere ensnared by an octopus the Fantastic Four square off against the Sub-Mariner. At first the group is kept at bay thanks to the various undersea creatures that Namor has at his disposal, however the Thing manages to get past Namor and free Sue, knocking the octopus out into the ocean. When the Puppet Master tries to order the Sub-Mariner to slay his foes, Namor cannot bring himself to harm Sue and fights off the Puppet Master's control, causing the clay puppet to explode.

When the Fantastic Four try to attack Namor again, Sue stands in their way and convinces them to stand down. Meanwhile, the octopus ejected from the Sub-Mariner's palace reaches the Puppet Master's sub and crushes the submersible before the villain can put the octopus under his control.[Continuity 4] Meanwhile, the Sub-Mariner -- still not over his animosity towards the surface world -- allows his foes to leave his kingdom.

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