Appearing in "Ben Grimm, Killer!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Napoleon G. Robberson ⏵ (First appearance as Napoleon G. Robberson)
- ⏴ Boss Barker ⏵
- ⏴ Lippy Louie ⏵
Other Characters:
- Magno-Man (First appearance)
- Rhinogon (First appearance)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Mentioned)
- Machine-Gun Martin (Statue)
- Primitoid ⏵ (First appearance)
- Cat-Man ⏵ (First appearance)
- Alicia Masters (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Nerve Collar
- Hypno-Glow (First appearance)
- Brain Blast Gun
- Power Stones (Mentioned)
- a different statue of Machine-Gun Martin
- Skrull Sonic Disruptor ⏵ (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Skrull Saucers
- ⏴ Xantha Saucer ⏵ (First appearance as Skrull Saucer)
- Hydraulo-Press (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Ben Grimm, Killer!"
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Torgo and Thing fight
While Reed is trying to determine where in the Skrull Galaxy Ben was taken, Ben himself is on the Skrull planet of Kral where he has been bought by Boss Barker and is being forced by his trainer Napoleon G. Robberson to fight various beings from other planets in preparation for his big fight against Torgo. As the Great Games are about to begin, Boss Barker barely escapes an assassination attempt by Lippy Louie, and the slaves are shipped to the Arena where they will be forced to combat each other. Ben tries to resist, but all of his attempts are quelled, and Torgo insists that Ben just accept his fate. All hope seems lost when Torgo tells him about the Sonic Disrupter, which can knock any of their home planets out of orbit. If Ben fights his masters, Earth will be destroyed as a consequence. The Great Games begin, with the Primitoid facing off against the Cat-Man, and Ben and Torgo awaiting their turn in the arena.
On Earth, Reed, Johnny and Crystal are aboard their captured Skrull saucer when it launches from the top of the Baxter Building and flies off into space on a mission to find and rescue their kidnapped friend from the Skrulls.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
Continuity Errors[]
- This comic is the first (of six) in which the disc-shaped starship in the possession of the Fantastic Four is identified as being the saucer that they had once captured from the Skrulls. It is also the first (of two) stories with a footnote that refers to that capture as having occurred back in Fantastic Four #2. Unfortunately, this was a mistake on the part of writer/editor Stan Lee because the Skrull spacecraft that the FF captured in that issue was actually a ship that had the outward appearance of a rooftop water tank. The only saucer-shaped spacecraft that the FF had encountered (and kept for themselves) by then was the starship that Kurrgo had sent to Earth to bring them to his homeworld Planet X in Fantastic Four #7. Kurrgo wanted Reed Richards on Xanth to coerce him into finding some way to save the Xantha from being killed by an immense asteroid that was soon to strike and destroy their planet. After saving the Xantha, the FF used the saucer to escape back to Earth. As seen in Fantastic Four #11, the FF kept the saucer as a memento of their adventure on Planet X and once even held a surprise birthday party for Sue aboard it.
- This continuity error was eventually partially resolved in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook #1 when the "Where are they now" update to the entry on Kurrgo noted that "The ship the FF got from Kurrgo has been consistently referred to as a Skrull ship, indicating that Kurrgo had purchased the ship from Skrulls."
- Although this retcon accounts for why this starship was repeatedly described as being a Skrull saucer in later stories, including two in which aliens (the Slave-Master in Fantastic Four #93 and Powerhouse in Rom #24) identified it as a Skrull vessel, it does not explain why three different members of the FF have claimed that they had captured this saucer from the Skrulls during their first encounter.
