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Quote1 Well, you're not the only one who can lose his temper — now see what it means — to anger an elemental!! Oh, Johnny — did — did I hurt you? Quote2
Crystal

Appearing in "The Torch Goes Wild!"

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Synopsis for "The Torch Goes Wild!"

When the Torch flies off to the Inhumans' Hidden City, believing that Crystal is being held there against her will, Reed, Sue, and Ben chase after him but are delayed when their flying saucer encounters a sudden meteor shower that hurls them off-course and forces them to land in an unnamed "remote and lonely land" to make emergency repairs.

After a storm forces him to seek shelter in a cave in the Himalayas, Johnny is confronted by Yeti who believes him to be an outsider. However, when Johnny uses his flame powers, Yeti assumes that he is not an outsider and asks why he is attacking his fellow Inhumans. Hearing this, Johnny realizes that he has already reached his goal even as Yeti flees through a hidden door in the cave wall to warn the others. Johnny follows him and reaches a tunnel that leads to the heart of the city where he battles several Inhumans before landing and demanding an audience in the palace of Black Bolt, a request that must be granted under Inhuman law.

Facing the Inhuman royal family, Johnny believes that Crystal must have been brainwashed when she asks him to leave and begins battling her family. When Crystal still refuses to go with him, Johnny assumes that she was making a chump out of him the whole time, loses his temper and attempts to throw a large fireball at the Inhuman city. However, it's stopped before it does any damage by a Heat-Absorption Rod fired through it by Reed who had just arrived with Sue and Ben in the saucer.

With the battle stopped, it is revealed that Crystal was called back to the Hidden City in order to keep Black Bolt alive while he waited for a cure to be developed. After the explanation, an apologetic Johnny makes up with Crystal, who still has to remain in the Hidden City until Black Bolt is fully healed.

Solicit Synopsis

The Human Torch goes wild as he battles the Inhumans! It's the one you've been waiting for!

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Continuity Notes[]

  • The Yeti's past has been expanded upon in Marvel: The Lost Generation #1012. It is explained the Yeti was a member of the First Line, heroes from the 20th century who defended the Earth and perished while stopping a Skrull invasion. Yeti betrayed his teammates to the Skrulls. X-Men: The Hidden Years #16 went on to explain that the Yeti and his Skrull ally—a woman with whom he was smitten—hid in the Himalayan mountains where she died, and this is the reason why the Yeti went mad.
  • Marvel: The Lost Generation #7 would later reveal that a time-traveling historian from the future, Dr. Cassandra Locke, was also present in the Himalayas during the events of this story. She observed the Human Torch's encounter with Yeti but was far enough away to avoid being detected by either of them. Following the trail of destruction that Johnny left behind him led Locke to Attilan where she observed a Skrull saucer approaching the city. After using her special belt to make a spatial jump into the saucer, Locke encountered the other three members of the Fantastic Four and revealed to them why she was traveling through time. However, after Reed triggered her belt's reset button and Locke began another time jump, Ben, Reed and Sue suddenly forgot all about her. This amnesia was caused by colleagues of hers in her future who used counter waves sent back in time to damp the memories of everyone she met in order to prevent even the slightest divergence in the timeline.[1]
  • The saucer-shaped vehicle that Reed, Sue and Ben use to go after Johnny was not named in this issue. It will not be until Marvel: The Lost Generation #7 that it is identified as being a Skrull saucer by Dr. Locke. This retroactively confirms that it was the vehicle known as the Xantha Saucer (Fantastic Four).
  • Medusa mistakenly refers to Black Bolt as being Crystal's brother. In actuality, they're not even second cousins.
  • Although Crystal tells Johnny that she will have to remain in Attilan "a while longer" to make sure that Black Bolt recovers fully, the Thing expresses his hope that he might yet make his ski trip with Alicia which had previously been stated to be scheduled for the next day.
  • There are conflicting opinions as to whether Yeti's appearance in this issue takes place before or after his appearance in X-Men: The Hidden Years #16.

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Events occur in this story behind the scenes that affect the chronology for the following characters:

Mister Fantastic:

Invisible Girl:

Human Torch:

Thing:

Yeti:

Publication Notes[]

  • This issue features a letters page, Fantastic Four Fan Page. Letters are published from Ralph Duby and David Charels Paskow.
  • As seen on page one, this issue is Story#166-Z.

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