Appearing in "Behold! A Distant Star!"
Fantastic Four #37.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Skrull Empire
- Warlord Morrat (Death)
- Princess Anelle (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed Skrulls
- Emperor Dorrek
Other Characters:
- Reverend Miller
- Aunt Petunia (Mentioned)
- Franklin Storm (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Immobilizer Ray (First appearance)
- Freeze Ray (First appearance)
- Iso-Missile (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Prototype rocket borrowed from NASA
Synopsis for "Behold! A Distant Star!"
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 N.A.S.A. that would allow them to travel through sub-space to the Skrull home world.
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 "Defeated by the Frightful Four!"
Fantastic Four #38.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Alicia Masters (Mentioned)
Locations:
- United States Of America
- Pacific Ocean
- Asiatic Nuclear Test Site
Items:
- Q-Bomb
- Paste-Gun
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Defeated by the Frightful Four!"
Fantastic Four #38.
Reed, Ben and Johnny are busy looking over enlarged photographs of the Skrull galaxy for research when suddenly they are interrupted by Sue who playfully reminds them that there are wedding plans to go over. Although she is invisible to the eye, they manage to grab her and make her give up with her pranking. With the merriment over, Johnny decides to head off to go on a date with his girlfriend Doris Evans. As he flies away from the Baxter Building he just misses the Wizard who is passing by. Their foe then goes to land at the secluded cabin where the Frightful Four are hiding out. There he is attacked by the Sandman, but is repelled by the Wizard's anti-gravity devices. Paste-Pot Pete -- having now renamed himself the Trapster -- lunges in to test out his new paste-based traps. After they succeed in subduing the Wizard, he shows his supremacy by throwing the Frightful Four around with his anti-gravity weapons.
Soon their launch their next plot against the Fantastic Four, it begins with Medusa confronting the Invisible Girl while she is out picking dress designs for her wedding. Caught off guard, Sue is easily captured and the news of her kidnapping quickly spreads. When the Thing learns what happened he rushes back to the Baxter Building to tell Reed and Johnny what he has learned only to find that Reed is already busy trying to track the Frightful Four down.
Meanwhile, the Frightful Four have landed their ship on a former nuclear testing site on an atoll in the South Pacific. There the Wizard shows his comrades and prisoner his greatest invention yet, the Q-Bomb, which he intends to use against the Fantastic Four. Back at the Baxter Building the FF are desperately trying to locate Sue when suddenly their radars pick up a ship flying their way. They attack it, but only succeed in getting Johnny captured by the Frightful Four as well. As their foes flee, Reed and Ben follow after them in the Pogo Plane.
The Fantastic Four are caught off guard when they land on the atoll and their enemies attack. Although they soon start getting the upper hand, the Frightful Four flee leaving the heroes to go and rescue Sue. However with the Pogo Plane having been destroyed in the fight, they have no way off the island. As the Frightful Four speed away, the Wizard sets the bomb to explode. Unknown to him the Fantastic Four are thrown clear from the atomic blast thanks to a force field put around them by Sue. Knocked unconscious by the blast the Four are lost at sea as the Thing slowly begins to revert back to human form.
This story is continued next issue....
Appearing in "The Mystery Villain!"
Strange Tales #127.
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- William Lumpkin
- Wizard (Recap)
- Paste-Pot Pete (Recap)
- Sub-Mariner (Recap)
- Aunt Petunia (Mentioned)
Locations:
- New York State
- Utah
- Salt Flats (First appearance)
Items:
- Paste-Gun (Recap)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Mystery Villain!"
Strange Tales #127.
After a training session ends with the Torch complaining about Mr. Fantastic being the leader of the FF, he and the Thing are invited to a charity auto race. While on the route, the two heroes are captured by a mysterious villain who keeps the two heroes on their toes. Admitting defeat, the Torch and Thing realize that they've been fighting Mr. Fantastic in disguise, who set up the whole ruse to teach them a lesson about his group leadership.
Solicit Synopsis
Two of the fabulous F.F.'s most sensational adventures - plus the fumin' Human Torch in solo combat! A triple treat!
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