Appearing in "The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!"
Fantastic Four #2
Featured Characters:
- Fantastic Four (Main story and recap)
- Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards) (Main story and recap)
- Invisible Girl (Susan Storm) (Main story and recap)
- Thing (Ben Grimm) (Main story and recap)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Central City Police Chief
- United States Army
Antagonists:
- Skrull Empire (First appearance)
- Fantastic Four Impostors (First appearance)
- Thing Impostor (First appearance) (changed into Cow)
- Invisible Girl Impostor (First appearance) (escaped)
- Mister Fantastic Impostor (First appearance) (changed into Cow)
- Human Torch Impostor (First appearance) (changed into Cow)
- Skrull mother ship captain
- Fantastic Four Impostors (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Central City citizens
- Unnamed Oil-rig workers
- Unnamed Jewelry store employees
- Unnamed Power Plant Worker
- Santa Claus (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Milky Way (Main story and recap)
- Solar System (Main story and recap)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- North America
- United States of America
- Texas
- Gulf of Mexico
- Offshore oil rig (Destruction)
- Gulf of Mexico
- California
- Central City
- Jewelry Store
- Power Plant
- Central City
- New York
- The Midwest
- Hunting Lodge
- Specially-constructed private Cells in a federal prison
- FF's secret apartment hideout
- An experimental rocket test site
- Texas
- United States of America
- Earth Orbit
- North America
- Mars (Mentioned)
- Earth (Main story and recap)
- Solar System (Main story and recap)
- Andromeda Galaxy (Mentioned) (Unnamed)
Items:
- Fantasti-Flare
- The Daily Globe
- Daily Bugle
- Anti-Gravity Harness (First appearance)
- Electronic Detonator (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Skrull ship (First appearance)
- Skrull Mothership
Synopsis for "The Fantastic Four Meet the Skrulls from Outer Space!"
Fantastic Four #2
Part 1[]
The Thing attacks an oil platform off the Texas shore. The Invisible Girl steals a valuable gem from a jewelry store. The Human Torch melts a statue when a town unveils it. Mister Fantastic shuts down a power plant. These impostors meet afterward and reveal how they used their shape-shifting abilities and alien technology to perpetrate their misdeeds. They are Skrulls, and they plan on invading Earth. Fearing the Fantastic Four will stand in their way, these four agents want to ruin their reputation. The real Fantastic Four, in "an isolated hunting lodge," hear the news with dismay.[Continuity 1]
Part 2[]
The United States Army surrounds the lodge. Wanted for the Skrulls' crimes, the Fantastic Four surrender. They escape from cells specifically designed to hold them and hole up in one of their "many secret apartment hideouts", in order to clear their names. They set a trap for the Skrulls by sending Johnny to sabotage a rocket launch, hoping it will draw them out. He melts through an unused gantry,[Continuity 2] avoids the army's artillery and flames off behind a hangar. "Reed" and "Susan" pick him up and take him back to their hideout. A Fantasti-Flare out the window brings the rest of the team.
Part 3[]
A fight ensues and the Skrulls are taken, prisoner. The Fantastic Four steal the Skrulls' rocket ship and find their mother-ship in Earth orbit.[Continuity 3] Posing as the Skrull agents, they trick the captain into believing that Earth is too dangerous to invade by passing off images from Journey Into Mystery and Strange Tales as real. Reed volunteers to stay behind and remove any trace of the Skrulls' presence on Earth. Convinced his army would be slaughtered, the captain calls off the invasion and awards Reed a medal for bravery.[Continuity 4] On the way home the Fantastic Four passes through the cosmic rays again, causing the Thing to briefly return to human form.
Part 4[]
Once back on Earth the Fantastic Four clear their names by proving the existence of Skrulls to the military. The remaining three Skrulls transform into cows at Reed's instructions, and Reed hypnotizes them into believing they are real cows. They are left in a field where they can live out their lives.[Continuity 5][Continuity 6][Continuity 7][Continuity 8]
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