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Quote1 The Fantastic Four! Hmmm... what an idea! If we could find a suitable female, we could be their exact evil counterpart! Quote2
—Wizard

Appearing in "The Frightful Four!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #36

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  • Reed and Sue's Engagement Party

Synopsis for "The Frightful Four!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Fantastic Four #36
Reed Richards and Sue Storm publicly announce their engagement to the press. As they are making their announcement, a package is delivered from the Yancy Street Gang. The Thing opens it, fearing it's the worst and discovers that it's bomb of some kind. However, instead of a harmful explosion, the bomb was a gag filled with flowers.

Elsewhere, Paste-Pot Pete meets with the Sandman and the Wizard to form a new group to go after their mutual foe, the Human Torch. Pete and Sandman recount how they broke out of prison, stole a plane, and saved the Wizard from floating out in space following his last battle with the Human Torch. The Wizard then tells them that he has heard a potential fourth member to their group, a strange woman who can control her hair that lives on an island out in the Mediterranean Sea and has no memory of her past.

Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four are busy preparing for the wedding. As arrangements are being made, the Frightful Four meet for the first time and begin plotting the doom of their good counterparts. Back at the Baxter Building an engagement party is underway with the Avengers and the X-Men in attendance. The Frightful Four make their attack after the party goers leave, ambushing and incapacitating the Thing, the Invisible Girl, and Mister Fantastic. They are unaware that Alicia Masters is also on the premises, and while the Frightful Four are placing anti-gravity discs on their foes, she takes the Signal Flare from Sue's belt and fires it off.

It is seen by the Human Torch, who is over at his friend's garage working on a car, and he races to the Baxter Building. However, Alicia is caught by Medusa, and she, too, is taken prisoner. The four prisoners are then left to drift into the sky on the Wizard's anti-gravity discs. The Torch rushes on the scene and, using his flame powers, forces the Wizard to fly his anti-gravity ship into the sky and rescue his friends. After the Fantastic Four and Alicia are rescued, the ship is attacked by the Frightful Four, who followed after them in the Fantastic Four's Pogo Plane. Forced to land, the two groups battle it out until things start going in the Fantastic Four's favor. Seeking to escape, the Wizard detonates his ship, allowing the Frightful Four to flee the scene in all the confusion.

Appearing in ""The Gladiator, The Girl, and The Glory!""

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Tales of Suspense #76

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Synopsis for ""The Gladiator, The Girl, and The Glory!""

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Tales of Suspense #76
Quote1 But, you're not threatening a helpless girl now, Batroc!! I've battled men with all sorts of powers in my time--Next to some of them, you're just a joke! But--I'm not laughing! Quote2
—Captain America

Captain America has got himself involved in the a SHIELD operation to exchange the volatile chemical Inferno 42 which has gotten him into conflict with Batroc the Leaper, who seeks to obtain the chemical for his employers. During their combat, they've accidentally exposed the chemical to the air causing it to become active, and the female SHIELD agent (who resembles somebody from Cap's past) has run off with it, unaware that it will soon explode with enough force to destroy all of New York City.

During her escape, the girl is soon weakened from exposure to Inferno 42, and Batroc and Cap manage to catch up to her. Batroc and Cap fight it out over possession of the chemical, and Batroc manages to obtain it himself. However when he brings it back to his employers who encase the cylinder in a container that would make it dormant again, Cap arrives and battles Batroc to the point where Batroc and his employers make a grand escape.

Rushing back to the girl, he finds that she is being carried away in an ambulance for treatment, where she tells Cap that their mission was a success because while Cap and Batroc were fighting, she managed to switch the cylinder of Inferno 42 with a fake.

Appearing in "Fight On! For a World is Watching!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #70

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Synopsis for "Fight On! For a World is Watching!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Tales of Suspense #70
Accepting a challenge from the Titanium Man in combat to prove which nation's armored champion is superior,[1] Iron Man soon finds that the Titanium Man is not playing a fair game, having rigged the battle field with landmines.

As the two titans clash, the Titanium Man unleashing his various powers against Iron Man, the world watches the entire event on live television. As Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts watch the fight, Countess Stephannie de la Spirosa is searching for Tony Stark to watch the fight with (not knowing that Stark is really Iron Man), she breaks into Stark's hotel room and finds the experimental new transistor that he is working on in order to entice Stark to look for her.

While back in the battle field, Iron Man manages to fight off Titanium Man's attacks, but is slowly sustaining damage and is being over powered, however Iron Man manages to make it to the end of the round when a brief intermission is called. Returning to his room to get the new transistor in order to be a match the Titanium Man, Iron Man finds it missing and comes across the Countesses' handkerchief, he then sends Happy Hogan to find her and bring the device to him.

Making quick repairs, Iron Man returns for round two of their battle. As the battle rages on, Happy manages to find the Countess and convince her to give him the device. Arriving on the battle field, Happy attempts to bring it to Iron Man, but finds himself struck down by a deflected blast from the Titanium Man's weapons, critically injuring him. Just before Happy apparently dies, he reveals that he knows Iron Man is his boss, Tony Stark. Inserting the device into his armor, an enraged Iron Man then turns to battle the Titanium Man once again.

Appearing in "Beware...! Dormammu is Watching!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #139

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Synopsis for "Beware...! Dormammu is Watching!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Tales #139
Doctor Strange battles Baron Mordo, to save the Ancient One, Dormammu and his prisoner Clea watch the battle from the Dark Dimension. After a fierce battle, Doctor Strange is able to defeat Mordo, at that moment -- fed up with Mordo's constant bungling, Dormammu transports Strange, Mordo and the Ancient One to the Dark Dimension.

Solicit Synopsis

(August)

  • (September) AND, STILL ON SALE- The fabulous Fantastic Four — backed up by Iron Man and Dr. Strange — in some of their most amazing action epics! Bargainsville!

Notes

  • At the end of "Fight on! For a World is Watching!", it states "See the Crashing Crescendo to this epic in the - Iron-Man Annual -- on Sale Now!", but that issue is just a reprint of Tales of Suspense #71.

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