Descrizione
I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1977
contiene inoltre : SKULL L’ UCCISORE e PRINCIPE NAMOR SUB MARINER + DOTTOR DESTINO (ancora
una volta accanitamente e atrocemente insieme in un insano e
devastante team-up)
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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“A World of Madness Made!” / MEDUSA HA TRADITO ?
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Synopsis
Reed plummets from the 36th floor of the Baxter Building, but
fortunately Thundra catches him in her powerful arms, to the amazement
of the bystanders. Reed has had the wind knocked out of him, but he is
still alive, and Thundra asks Medusa to help him while she climbs the
Baxter Building to battle Mahkizmo. When she finds the warrior in Reed’s
laboratory, standing over the downed figures of the Human Torch and the
Thing, his exhibition of male egoism nauseates her. Mahkizmo commands
her to beg for mercy, but she asserts that no male alive can defeat her.
Then Mahkizmo exclaims that he likes a woman with spirit, and the two
figures slam into each other with explosive power. The energy of their
collision revives the Human Torch and the Thing, but before the
teammates can enter the fray, Thundra and Mahkizmo vanish in a flash of
light.
As Ben and Johnny try to figure out what happened, Medusa and Reed enter
the room. Ben becomes annoyed when Medusa seems more concerned about
Thundra than himself and Johnny, but Reed calms him down and reminds him
that Thundra probably saved their lives. When Reed wonders how Thundra
is involved with the giant, Medusa repeats Thundra’s story about the
world of Machus and the world of the Femizons. Thundra was sent to
defeat the Earth’s most powerful male, says Medusa, and Mahkizmo was
sent to stop her. Somehow the world of Machus has begun to “slip over”
into Thundra’s world, and now Mahkizmo has taken Thundra back with him
to Machus. Seven hours later, Reed is busy working on a modification to
Dr. Doom’s time machine. Sue has returned from her country vacation to
assist him. Reed explains that Thundra allowed herself to be captured
because a battle between herself and Mahkizmo could have destroyed the
Earth. Three hours later, as dawn breaks over New York, the Human Torch
enters through the window, and Reed announces that the machine is ready
for testing. Reed hopes that the time machine will now be able to travel
“sideways through time” as well as backward and forward. Ben has been
holding up a piece of heavy equipment for the better part of an hour,
and Reed at last tells him that he doesn’t need it after all. Ben
splutters in irritation, but Reed orders him, Johnny, and Medusa onto
the circular platform of the time machine, and he tells Sue that they
are all depending on her to pull them back to the present if anything
goes wrong. Then he flicks a switch on the master control board and
stands next to his teammates, and as Sue and Franklin watch, Reed and
his companions fade away in a blaze of light. The four time travelers
are amazed to see the world around them change as Reed works the
controls. When they time traveled before, they were never able to view
the effect of their passage. Reed says that this is due to the
modifications he made. As the centuries rapidly pass by, they see New
York City Sink into the sea. Its buildings crumbling into dust. When
Reed decides he has traveled far enough, he sets the machine to move
sideways through the alternate futures, passing in turn through Earth’s
own time line, the future of the Femizons, and finally the future of
Machus. Their journey finally ends on a rocky plain outside one of that
world’s major cities. Johnny immediately flames on and flashes toward
the city, saying he has a score to settle with Mahkizmo. Reed cautions
him to be careful, but no sooner does Johnny go than he spots a group
of men brutalizing some women. Johnny flashes down to break up the
melee, but one man, Gagnor, fires at Johnny with an energy-pistol.
Johnny dodges the bolts as Reed, Ben, and Medusa attack. Just as the
tide of battle turns in the Fantastic Four’s favor, Mahkizmo himself
appears. Ben rushes to attack him, but Mahkizmo shoves Ben aside as
though he were weightless. If Ben were a woman, shouts Mahkizmo, he
could understand his brainless stupidity, but Ben is a man, and that
makes him simply a fool. Seeing his teammate in trouble, Johnny soars to
attack, but Mahkizmo drops him with a single punch. Then Mahkizmo
attacks Reed. Medusa tries to warn him, but a stun blast hits her from
behind and knocks her unconscious. This enrages Ben, and he bowls
Mahkizmo’s men over. But Mahkizmo threatens to kill Reed unless Ben
surrenders, and the four companions are taken prisoner. The Fantastic
Four are brought to Machus’s city, where they are shown a totally
subservient Thundra being whipped like a slave. Again Ben is enraged,
and he breaks his chains and attacks. Unfortunately, Mahkizmo stops him
with one punch Reed tells Ben that resistance is useless, because the
men of Machus have some kind of ray that saps the will and makes it
impossible to act. Mahkizmo then orders the three male teammates placed
in a stasis-cage to be disposed of later in the “arena.” But Medusa, he
gloats, will stay with him tonight. When evening falls, Medusa is forced
to entertain Mahkizmo in his palace chamber, but soon she sees the
opportunity to shatter a wine bottle over his head. Feeling disgusted by
what she had to endure, she leaves the warrior unconscious. As she
passes by the stasis-cage, Reed asks her to release them, but Medusa
says that she cannot. There is no time to explain, she says
apologetically as she hurries out of the castle and back to the time
machine. Having seen Reed control it, she hopes she can do likewise, and
she turns the machine on and fades away. Ben, Johnny, and Reed can
hardly believe that Medusa has betrayed them.
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“To Bestride the World” / IL MONDO E’ IL NOSTRO REGNO (1a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Other Characters:
- Mickey
- Turk
- Plato Monarkos
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- The Typhoeus (A Unspecified Naval Vessel)
- Unidentified craft used by the Sub-Mariner
Synopsis
A new super-cruise ship called the S.S. Typhoeus has it’s voyage
interrupted by the arrival of Namor the Sub-Mariner who demands that the
vessel turn around and return to it’s original port of departure or
suffer his wrath. When they fail to comply, he sinks the boat and leaves
the passengers stranded out at sea before returning to Atlantis. There
the Sub-Mariner laments over the fact that all his people are still
trapped in suspended animation.
Atlantis is suddenly attacked by an army of surface dwellers and
Namor soon learns that the attack is orchestrated by Dr. Doom who wished
to get the under-sea monarchs attention so that he may come to the
surface and discuss matters with Doom.
Meeting with Doom aboard one of his airships, the two discuss the
prospect of working together and both agree to do so.
Continued to next issue…
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“Time Out of Mind” / DIMENSIONE IRREALTA’ ! (1a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Slitherouge (First appearance)
Locations:
- Tower of Time
- Scorpius (Only in flashback)
Synopsis
Skull and his comrades learn the secret of the Tower of Time,
constructed by the Scorpians in Earth’s prehistory as a way of keeping
their robots busy, but soon to be the staging post for Slitherogue’s
attempt to conquer time itself.
Continued to next issue…
Synopsis
A planter in India is nearly convinced of superstitions concerning
were-tigers after he slays its mate, but it turns out to be a plot by
one of the locals to seize control of the village.
