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I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1978
contiene inoltre : DOTTOR STRANGE e KILLRAVEN
CONDIZIONI OTTIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Alicia Masters
- Agatha Harkness (Behind the scenes)
- Franklin Richards (Behind the scenes)
Villains:
- Eliminator (First appearance)
- Witches of New Salem (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
Locations:
Synopsis
Seconds after the Counter-Earth Reed Richards vanishes into the
Negative Zone, Reed himself collapses into the arms of his wife. Johnny
Storm and Tigra try to restrain the Thing from pounding at the now
sealed Negative Zone portal, while Thundra assists Sue, Tigra tells Ben
that Sue needs his help, and Ben gently carries the exhausted Reed to
bed. Thundra is briefly affronted by Ben’s abrupt behavior toward her,
but then she realizes that Ben is Reed’s best friend, and his concern
for Reed is paramount. As Johnny and Tigra contemplate the Negative Zone
monitor- from which the figure of the Counter-Earth Reed has so
recently disappeared, Sue sits down at Reed’s bedside and Ben leaves her
to telephone Alicia. Ben detects trouble in Alicia’s voice, but she
tells him that there is nothing wrong, and that Franklin is sound
asleep. Sue is relieved that Alicia followed instructions and did not
mention the kidnapping, but Ben knows Sue well enough to suspect that
she is keeping something from him. He decides that she will tell him in
her own good time. Then, when Sue asks him to help the others clean up,
he heads back to the Negative Zone chamber. Ben finds Thundra, Tigra,
and Johnny looking over the mess. When Thundra asks whether they have
equipment capable of repairing the damage, Ben replies that the AUNTIE
robot was probably knocked out of commission itself, so there is nothing
they can do but get to work. Tigra starts to flirt with Ben, much to
his embarrassment, but when Thundra declares that housework is
demeaning, Tigra agrees, and the two ladies depart. Outside, when Tigra
mentions that Thundra seems annoyed because she can get no farther with
Ben than Tigra can, Thundra angrily stomps away. All’s fair in love and
war, says Tigra as she runs off in the other direction. As Ben tells
Johnny that it will be just the two of them cleaning up, Johnny
interrupts the disappointed Ben that he won’t be able to help either. He
has a few things he must sort out for himself he says as he flames on
and soars out over the city. Then when he passes by Frankie Raye’s
apartment in Greenwich village, an unseen figure lines him up in a
gunsight and shoots him out of the sky. “Target One eliminated,’ says
the assailant. In the meantime, Ben starts grumbling to himself as he
carries the rubble of the battle out of the room. Suddenly the
Impossible Man appears outside the window reading a newspaper. Ben asks
whether he is here to help, but in reply he asks Ben what a movie is,
Ben says that a movie is like television, only bigger, and the
Impossible Man joyfully turns into a flying saucer and sails out over
the city in search of one. With any luck, says Ben, he’ll choke on his
popcorn. Reed awakens with a start as the memory of the events of the
past few hours returns. Sue calms him down and then tells him what
happened to Franklin and Agatha, but when Sue suggests that he put on
his uniform so that the four of them can return to Whisper Hill, he
demures. Lacking his powers, he would only be in the way, he says. But
Sue replies that his stretching power was not the only thing he
contributed to the team. Thoughtful, Reed dons his costume. Ben finishes
the cleanup by sweeping all the remaining debris under a pulled-up
section of flooring and stomping it flat, sending a powerful tremor
through the building that brings Reed and Sue on the run. When they see
that they are not being attacked by another foe, they tell Ben about the
kidnapping. Soon they are underway to Whisper Hilt in the Fantasi-Car.
They become puzzled when Johnny falls to respond to their “4”. As a
thunderstorm rages above the city, they decide they cannot wait any
longer for Johnny and speed away. Soon they are above the mansion, which
looks much different —more rundown.— from when Sue was there earlier.
Reed thinks that this is the way the mansion looks in reality, without
Agatha’s magic to maintain its illusory “normal’ appearance. Suddenly,
the same unseen assailant who attacked Johnny gets the Fantasticar in
his gunsight and squeezes the trigger -Target Two eliminated.” he says.
However, this is by no means the case, The Fantasticar flies apart into
fragments as it becomes caught in a tractor beam, but the three
passengers are thrown clear. Sue creates a force field cushion for them
and they land on the ground shaken but unhurt. Ben finds a metal object
that looks like an egg from which something seems to have hatched. Reed
tells Ben to leave it for now as they enter the spooky house. The place
is quite dark, lit only by their flashlights and an occasional lightning
stroke. Ben is startled when his light illuminates the figure of Johnny
Storm, who is hanging by his shirt from a bannister. He is soaking wet
and unable to use his flame, and he weakly asks them to get him down.
Ben pulls him up and asks what happened, and Johnny mutters that their
adversary is not human. He pulled him out of the sky with a strange
weapon, says Johnny. Suddenly the lights go on, and a huge, armored
figure smashes out at Reed and Sue through a door. It calls itself the
Eliminator, and it proclaims that for daring to interfere with its work,
they must be destroyed. It is its solemn duty, it continues, to
eliminate all traces of Agatha Harkness’s sojourn among their “primitive
race,” which includes destroying those who were once her friends. Sue
asks whether her son has been “eliminated, and the android replies
that its masters will deal with her son in their own fashion. Ben
suddenly leaps down from the mezzanine and slams the creature into a
wall. When the Eliminator tries to incinerate Ben with incendiary jets
on its fingertips, the Human Torch absorbs the flame and ignites
himself. Then Sue knocks it over with a force-sphere. This,
unfortunately, allows it to use the vacuum-vents built into its boots to
blow out Johnny’s flame, and then it recovers its footing and staggers
them with a shock wave. Reed formulates a plan of attack, but the
creature declares that the time has come for it to strike “in earnest.”
When Sue tries to hit it with another force-sphere. it uses a beam that
apparently disintegrates her. Reed is horrified and hurls himself at the
android, but a painful blast of energy knocks him away. Then Ben
attacks, but the Eliminator pummels him into seeming lifelessness.
Finally, Johnny trys to burn the Eliminator up, but it uses its
incendiary-jets to force Johnny to explode in a nova-blast. Then, with
all the Fantastic Four apparently dead on the floor, it declares that
just one thing remains before its mission is accomplished. It inserts
its incendiary-jet fingertips into its chest-plate, which commences the
countdown of its self• destruction. Within minutes, it says, it shall
explode and destroy every trace of Whisper Hill. Anchoring itself to the
floor with its vacuum-vents, the robot states that the process cannot
be reversed. No sooner does it say that than the Fantastic Four all
arise. Reed explains to the perplexed machine that the Invisible Girl
simply exercised her power to make the android think she was
disintegrated. Then, hiding in the shadows, she used her invisible force
field to protect Reed and Ben, while Johnny simply faked going nova.
The Fantastic Four rush out of the building and duck under Sue’s force
field, as the android forlornly declares that an Eliminator never fails.
Then the mansion explodes, as the debris falls all around them, they
vow to track down Agatha Harkness and Franklin wherever they may be.
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“Alone Against Eternity…” / DA SOLO CONTRO L’ ETERNITA’
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Clea
- Lord Phyffe
- Rama Kaliph
- Mad Ghengis
- Aspects of Dr. Strange
- The Medical Doctor
- The Drunk
- The Acolyte
- The Masked Master of the Mystic Arts
Synopsis
Dr. Strange and his visitors are awaken from the screams of Baron
Mordo, who has been living in Strange’s mansion since he went insane.
Probing his dreams, Strange finds that Mordo is being terrorized by
Nightmare, however before Strange can stop Nightmare, Mordo goes
unconcious severing the link to Nightmare’s realm.
Shortly after, Strange and Clea are shocked to see Eternity to
appear in the sky, cloaking Eternity from the eyes of mortals to avoid a
panic, Strange seeks the aid of Mad Ghengis for aid, but finds that he
has gone completely insane due to Nightmares machinations as well.
As Mordo awakens from another nightmare and rushes to the roof of
Dr. Strange’s Sanctum, Dr. Strange himself uses his Eye of Agamotto to
seek answers for Eternity’s appearance. Instead he is merged with the
being that reveals that it has gone weary of mankinds indecision about
what to do and has come to usher in the end of the world. Trying to
appeal Eternity’s decision the cosmic being tells Strange to go and
visit the many apsects of his personality on Earth, then return to him.
As Strange embarks on this request, Mordo leaves his physical body to
travel in his astral form.
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“The Death Breeders” / I GENERATORI DI MORTE (1a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- High Overlord
- Skar
- mutant sea lampreys
Other Characters:
- Eve 3,031 (First appearance)
- Adam 3,031 (First appearance)
- Serpent Steed
Locations:
Synopsis
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“The Death Breeders” / I GENERATORI DI MORTE (2a parte)
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Freemen
- Carmilla Frost
- Old Skull
- M’Shulla
- Hawk
- Volcana Ash (First appearance)
Villains:
- High Overlord
- Skar
- Atalon the Fear Master (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Eve 3,031
- Adam 3,031
- Serpent Steed
Locations:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue..
Volcana Ash says she would have killed them if they’d been
Death Breeders. Killraven has another clairsentient episode: he sees a
pair of slaves in Death-Birth named Adam 3,031 and Eve 3,031, and how
Atalon the Fear Master humiliates them. The episode ends.
A Martian tripod appears. Ash and the men lead it away from Grok
and Frost and hide in a brewery. The tripod fires on the building. Death
Breeders (men in skeleton costumes) drop from the tripod. Killraven
climbs to the roof, where one of the Death Breeders ambushes him.
Killraven levers his attacker into a beer vat below and drops a handful
of silver stars after him. The vat bursts. The beer spills into the
street. The tripod loses its footing and crashes. Killraven vows that
“all the demons in hell won’t stop me from storming the fortress of
Death-Birth!”
Notes
- This story takes place in the reality Earth-691.
Synopsis: On his way to a stunt, Myron is hit by a truck but survives, escaping the shades of death.
reprint from Amazing Adventures #28 (Jan. 1975) minus one of its original three pages.
