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Quote1 After all these years... All our adventures... We're still together... We're still a team! The Greatest Team Ever! Quote2
—Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)

Appearing in "The Long Journey Home!"

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  • Inhumans Flying Saucer (Destruction)
  • NATO Plane

Synopsis for "The Long Journey Home!"

Beginning with the destruction of their flying saucer while returning from the land of the Inhumans, the Fantastic Four become the targets of the Mad Thinker and Puppet Master's latest scheme to get revenge on them, this time by using android duplicates of the FF's various foes. The FF (and Crystal) battle android versions of Kang, Dr. Doom, the Kree Sentry, Dragon Man, Namor and a small horde of Atlantean warriors, the Hate-Monger, Diablo, the Super-Skrull, the Red Ghost and his Super-Apes, the Wizard, the Trapster, and the Sandman.

After all of those duplicates are defeated, the two villains attempt to send their final and most powerful weapon, an android modeled after the Hulk, to attack the heroes. However, it turns out that the Puppet Master had miscalculated the amount of control clay that would be needed and this Hulk runs amok. In his desperation to destroy their creation, the Puppet Master ignores the Mad Thinker's warning about the explosives located behind it and one of his shots sets them off, destroying their base with them still inside.

Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four return to the States aboard a specially-requisitioned NATO plane.

Solicit Synopsis

The sensational 100th-anniversary ish you've been waiting for—with more super-villains than any mag, at any time, anywhere!

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Continuity Notes[]

  • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine #1–12 occur immediately after this issue.
  • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine #2 reveals that the Mad Thinker and Puppet Master's hideout was located in the state of New Jersey.
  • Although some of the android duplicates are shown being destroyed in this story, others suffer less certain fates. Some of them are only shown being blown away by a blast of Crystal's elemental power while others were sent flying off into the sky after Crystal attached anti-grav Flying Discs to them.
  • According to the Omniscient Narrative on page 1, the saucer that was destroyed while transporting the Fantastic Four homeward from the land of the Inhumans was "a flying craft borrowed from Black Bolt." This is odd because it looks exactly like the saucer in which Reed, Ben and Sue traveled to Attlian in the previous issue. That vehicle was identified as a "Skrull saucer" in Marvel: The Lost Generation #7, thereby confirming that it was the so-called "Xantha Saucer," the only saucer-shaped vehicle capable of space travel that the FF were known to possess at that this. This raises some questions:
    • If the Omniscient Narrative is correct, why does this Inhuman flying craft look exactly like the saucer that Reed, Ben and Sue used to get to Attilan? And what happened to that saucer?
    • On the other hand, if the Omniscient Narrative is incorrect and this is that same saucer, then it was destroyed in this story. In that case, how could it appear, intact and functional, when the Thing next used it in Marvel Two-In-One #62?

Publication Notes[]

  • This issue features a letters page, Fantastic Four Fan Page. Letters are published from Jay Sheldon, Billy James Jones, Eugene Cerruti, Bill Henley, Jr., and Richard Weiss.
  • As seen on page one, this issue is Story#198-Z.

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