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I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1978
regressione infantile per l’ immaturo Ben Grimm alias LA COSA con gli altri tre terzi dei F4 che nel maxiepisodio che celebra questo fatidico duecentesimo numero tornano indietro ai tempi di carlo cotica a giocare alla guerra insieme ai patriottici INVASORI e ai mocciosi della LEGIONE DELLA LIBERTA’.
P.S. = in realtà questa storia fa riferimento e prosegue a partire dagli eventi narrati su Fantastic Four Annual # 11 , che per qualche misteriosa alchimia editoriale verrà pubblicata, su questa stessa collana, solo nel n. 211
CONDIZIONI MOLTO BUONE, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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“Their Name is Legion!” / LA LEGIONE DELLA LIBERTA’
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Skyshark (First appearance)
- Slicer (First appearance)
- Master Man
- U-Man
- Brain Drain
Other Characters:
- Fantastic Four
- Invaders (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Captain America (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Bucky (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Sub-Mariner (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Human Torch (Hammond) (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Toro (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Baron Zemo (Appears in flashback and main story)
- John Romita
- Major Hayden
- Adolf Hitler (Appears in flashback and main story)
- John Romita
Locations:
- Baxter Building
- Twin Towers
- New York City
- 1942
Items:
Synopsis
Continued from Fantastic Four Annual #11….
Having just returned to the year 1942 with his comrades in the
Fantastic Four having prevented the Nazi’s from taking advantage of a
cylinder of Vibranium that was accidentally sent back in time, Ben is
before the Watcher and realizes their job is far from over. Having only
recovered half of the Vibranium cylinder, Ben is determined to make the
Watcher tell him what he needs to know. The Watcher is honour bound to
not interfere with the affairs of humans and remains silent. When the
other Fantastic Four realize what’s going on, Ben bars them from Reed’s
lab determined to handle the problem by himself.
Going over the events that led up to this catastrophe, how he and
the rest of the FF travelled back to 1942 and aided the Invaders in
crushing Baron Zemo’s weapons factory that was utilizing the time
displaced Vibranium. As the World Trade Centre vanishes from existence,
Ben realizes that the Vibranium cylinder must have been broken in half
in the time stream and activates Dr. Doom’s time machine before the the
entire Baxter Building is erased from history as well.
He appears in the middle of New York City circa 1942, where he
meets a young boy named John Romita. There even though he reveals that
he is a human in an exo-suit he is accosted by the police who think that
he is a Nazi spy. Angered again by being called a Nazi he attacks the
officers when suddenly the fight is interrupted when air raid sirens go
off. Off in the distance a battalion of Nazi Stukkas are crossing over
the horizon much to Ben’s surprise because as far as he knows history
the Nazi’s never attacked New York City. Young John recognizes one of
the fighters as the one piloted by the Nazi known as the Skyshark, who
is joined by the Japanese villain known as Slicer. Before Ben can act
Jack Frost, Blue Diamond, Red Raven, Thin Man and Miss America of the
Liberty Legion go into action to deal with the threat.
Ben climbs up on the Times Building, Ben attempts to use a flag
pole to launch himself toward the action when he is stopped briefly by
the Patriot and Whizzer, until he can identify himself as an ally from
the future. As Ben is explaining things, the Liberty Legion members that
are fighting the Stukka’s destroy them all except for Skyshark’s ship,
who flees the scene, covering his escape with a smoke screen. With
Skyshark making an escape, the Liberty Legion help Ben take his time
machine some place safe. Unable to substantiate his story, the Liberty
Legion decide to believe him for now, but leave him behind in order to
track down the Skyshark.
The Skyshark meanwhile has landed at a secret Nazi’s ship hidden
in a cloud of mist off the shore of upstate New York, where he explains
Slicer that he is the most feared fighter pilot Nazi Germany that Adolf
Hitler had appointed him his current position.
Knowing that the US Military is developing new weapons for the
war effort in upstate the Liberty Legion goes to investigate things.
Miss America, Blue Diamond, and Whizzer go to a military site where a
special new cockpit is being developed and clash with Master Man, who
has come to capture it. Despite the Legion’s best efforts, Master Man
succeeds in capturing the cockpit. At another laboratory where a new jet
engine is being developed, Jack Frost and Red Raven attempt to defend
it from the Nazi backed Atlantean known as U-Man, their efforts also end
in failure. Lastly, Thinman and the Patriot are flying to the site of a
scientist who has developed a new gyro-scope. They arrive too late to
prevent the Skyshark and Slicer from gunning down the scientist and
taking what they require. After a brief dog fight, Skyshark manages to
escape, prompting the Thinman and Patriot to head back to New York City
to compare notes with their comrades.
In New York City, Ben finds the flag pole he attempted to use as a
catapult finds that it can support his weight. Just then the Watcher
appears leaving the Thing to wonder what’s going to happen next: Next to
his astonishment comes a giant flying Nazi ship in the shape of a
Swastika. With the ship smashing through nearby high-rises Ben launches
himself from the flag-pole looking to smash the device.
This story is continued in Marvel Two-In-One #20….
Notes
- Any references to Ben serving in World War II, and references
to the modern era of this story being in the year 1976 should be
considered topical due to Earth-616’s sliding time scale. Modern stories
would indicate that Ben served in the military, however the conflicts
they participated would be topical for the era in which the stories were
published if mentioned at all.
- The events during World War II that happened in this issue are
said to have happened in an alternate time line and thus why Captain
America and Namor in the modern era do not recall meeting the Fantastic
Four back in the past during the war. However both the Official Index of the Fantastic Four #10 and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Golden Age 2004 indicate that the events in Fantastic Four Annual #11, Marvel Two-In-One Annual #1 and Marvel Two-In-One #20 all occurred in Earth-616.
The going theory is that the divergence occurred in a pocket dimension
and merged with the regular 616 time line after the crisis was averted.
One could argue that the reason Cap and Namor didn’t remember their past
meeting with the FF when they had first met the group in the modern era
was because history hadn’t been changed by the FF’s initial travel back
in time.
Synopsis
When a woman threatens to leave a man unless he sells his island for
cash, he has a vision of a woman being threatened by pirates. He defeats
the pirates, and as a reward she gives him a ring and a promise to
return someday as the vision fades. When he comes to he finds he still
has the ring and the client the real estate broker brings in to show the
island is the spitting image of the woman from his vision.
Villains: Willie [freakshow member]
Others: Tina [fat lady, Willie’s wife, dies]
Genre: Fantasy
Setting: A circus
Synopsis
A circus freak can’t take his wife’s constant demands and chores, and finally kills her. After all, he’s only got six arms.
