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Quote1 Oh Morrat, even though you have my heart, my head tells me not to trust you! If only you were not so ruthless-- so ambitious--! Quote2
—Anelle

Appearing in "Behold! A Distant Star!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #37

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  • Humans
  • Skrulls
  • Druffs (First appearance)
  • Natives of the primitive alien planet (Mentioned)
  • Beasts of burden on the primitive alien planet
  • Birds (Mentioned)
  • Squirrels (Mentioned)

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  • Skrull Space Yacht
  • Prototype rocket borrowed from NASA

Synopsis for "Behold! A Distant Star!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #37

Testing out his new power-ray, Reed accidentally causes Johnny to flame on and destroy his tux. After, when he meets with Sue, she is upset that her father's killers roam free. Vowing to get them, Reed commissions a special space craft with NASA that would allow them to travel through sub-space to the Skrull homeworld.

Traveling there, they fight with Morrat, the Skrull Warlord who has visions of conquest and wants to marry King Dorrek's daughter, Anelle. Battling the Fantastic Four, he defeats them and takes the entire group captive. When Anelle tells her father the king that the Fantastic Four are on their world, the enraged monarch finds Morrat's actions treasonous, and goes to find out what's going on.

Meanwhile, thinking that the power-booster is a weapon, Morrat orders Reed to use it against his friends. Reed does just that and the restored FF battle Morrat and his Skrull army until the king arrives. The king orders Morrat to desist, prompting Morrat to order his men to kill the king. However when Anelle attempts to save her father, Morrat jumps into the line of fire. While Anelle is saved by Invisible Girl's force field, Morrat is killed.

With Morrat destroyed, the king tells the Fantastic Four that it was Morrat who had visions of conquering Earth, and informs them that they no longer need fear invasion from the Skrulls, and allows them to return to Earth. The FF arrive home just in time to go through Reed and Sue's practice ceremony.

Appearing in "Dis Man, Dis Monster, Disarmed!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Thing (Vol. 2) #7

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Synopsis for "Dis Man, Dis Monster, Disarmed!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Thing (Vol. 2) #7

In the year 130 BC on the Isle of Melos, the Thing has broken the arms off the Venus de Milo. Along with him is his former girlfriend Alicia Masters. Calling out to Ben, Alicia trips over a pile of rubble and lands on top of him and the statue. Feeling the statue's arms have been snapped off, Alicia demands to know what Ben has done. Ben begins to think back to how he found himself in this exact moment...

... Earlier, Ben was in modern day New York City telling Sue about his recurring dream wherein he is a prisoner of the Puppet Master and Alicia's new boyfriend Arlo North has been his pawn the whole time. Sue is surprised that Ben is being so cowardly about telling Alicia that he still has feelings for her. She then asks him to baby sit the children while she and Reed attend a symposium, but insists that he must bring Alicia over as well because the last time he watched the kids he took them to the track.

Soon Ben arrives at Alicia's apartment building and has Lockjaw teleport him upstairs. He is about to announce himself with some flowers he got for her birthday, but decides not to give them to Alicia when he enters and sees that Arlo has gotten her a miniature of the Venus de Milo statue. He then tells Alicia that he has a big surprise lined up for her. Taking Alicia out, she has Lockjaw teleport them to France, but when Alicia comments about how the Louvre museum allowed her to feel the Venus de Milo. Ben decides to take things a step further and has Lockjaw teleport them back to the Baxter Building.

There, Ben takes Alicia into Reed's lab where he uses the Time-Platform to travel back in time to ancient Greece. There they come across sculptor Alexandros of Antioch carving a statue of Hercules. When Ben tells her that they are going to see the newly made Venus de Milo, Alicia gets upset with him and reminds him that she is dating Arlo now. Her stern words are overheard by Hercules who sees the Thing and believes him to be a monster. Caught off guard because he forgets that this is the Hercules of the past, centuries before they ever met, Ben is knocked off his feet. As Alicia and the locals watch the fight, Ben knocks Hercules into a bunch of pots of wine. This infuriates Hercules and he lands a blow that send the Thing crashing into Alexandros' statues. Alicia soon realizes, to her horror, that one of the statues is the Venus de Milo...

His recollection over, Ben is still being scolded by Alicia when Hercules approaches them looking to fight some more. However, Alicia convinces him that Ben isn't a monster, but her friend. Convinced of this, Hercules quickly changes his tone and wishes them well before departing. As Ben rights the Venus de Milo, he asks Alicia why they can't be together again, and Alicia points out that there is far too much history between them and that she wants to remain friends. Ben cuts his losses and the two admit that their friendship is one for the classics and use the Time Platform to return home.

Back in their own time, Reed and Sue return from their day out to find Ben, Alicia and the kids sleeping on the couch. As they look at how peaceful they all look, Reed gets a quick look out the window and is shocked to see that history has been changed and all the buildings are of Grecian design. Reed resigns to this fact and tells his wife he'll fix the timeline in the morning.

Appearing in "What If...Dr. Doom Had Become The Thing?"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If Doctor Doom Had Become the Thing? #1

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Synopsis for "What If...Dr. Doom Had Become The Thing?"

Reprint of the 1st story from
What If Doctor Doom Had Become the Thing? #1

In this reality, Victor Von Doom notices the error in his experiment and the explosion that led to him becoming Dr. Doom never occurs. He befriends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm is left alone.

Skip ahead a few years and Reed is going on his fateful space flight with Doom instead of Grimm. Doom's evil plotting is not quelled however and he dons armor that he believes will protect him from the cosmic radiation while leaving the rest of the crew to die. The ship is bombarded by the cosmic rays and crash lands on Earth. Doom's armor absorbed the cosmic rays and Reed tries to help Victor but can't get a grip on his armor. Doom becomes the Thing and kidnaps Reed and crashes into an unknown location.

The location of the crash happens to be the very same place where the Gamma Bomb is going to be test detonated. Grimm, who remains in the military and is working on the bomb, notices his old friend and runs out to investigate their plight. The bomb detonates and Grimm is bombarded by Gamma Rays. Seeing Reed fighting Doom, Ben becomes the Hulk. Doom and Grimm fight and for a moment it seems that Doom has won but Grimm's strength increases with his rage and he manages to knock Doom unconscious. Reed then promises to find a cure for Grimm's condition. Ben says he doesn't need to do that and that he's got more important things to worry about. Doom then escapes, and Ben knows they haven't seen the last of him. The group decides to become the Fantastic Four.

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