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I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ornai annunciata ed esecutiva la cessata attività dei F4 , in questo primo episodio del dopo-chiusura LA TORCIA UMANA ormai in cassa integrazione si dà al rally, sapendo se poi che non dovesse andar bene gli resta sempre l’ippica
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1979
contiene inoltre : MISS MARVEL (stavolta a fare il cascamorto con lei c’è l’ingenuo ed illuso VISIONE) – KILLRAVEN
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI RESA
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Texas Twister (Drew Daniels)
- Arthur Thornhill (First appearance)
- Cynthian Associates (First appearance)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- SHIELD (Behind the scenes)
- Rebecca Rainbow
- Keewazi Indians
- Nicky
- Thaddeus P. Longhorn (First appearance)
- Robert Smith (First appearance)
- Yancy Street Gang (Behind the scenes)
Locations:
- America West (Undisclosed Location)
- New York
Synopsis
Several days after the Fantastic Four’s disbanding, Johnny Storm gets
off a westbound jetliner in Oklahoma, where he is met by Wyatt Wingfoot
and a group of Keewazi Indian children. Johnny is surprised and glad
to see Wyatt there, because he was not looking forward to starting a new
life for himself as a race driver alone. Wyatt explains that the
children are his students, and as soon as they see that Wyatt knows the
Human Torch, they ask the Torch to put on a show. Johnny does a few
flame tricks, which are also observed by a sinister figure nearby. It is
nice of the Torch to entertain the children, he muses, but tomorrow he
and Johnny will have a “Showdown” that will leave Johnny “face down in
the desert.” Back in New York, the doorbell buzzes at Alicia Masters’s
apartment, but when she answers it, she finds only a package. Ben Grimm
is busy packing a suitcase, because he has been hired by NASA to test a
new space shuttle. Unfortunately, he accidentally crushes it when he
loses patience trying to close it. He also destroys Alicia’s antique
bed. When Alicia hands Ben the package, they hear ticking sounds.
Alarmed, Ben immerses it in a sink full of water, thinking it is a bomb
left by a foe. But it turns out to be an ordinary pocket watch, a gift
from the Yancy Street Gang, who wish Ben well in his new career.
Sniffling, Ben says he will miss the perennial nuisances. Out west,
Wyatt tells Johnny about his career as a teacher, and Johnny asks how he
knew he would be arriving on that plane. Wyatt replies that all the
contestants in the upcoming race knew Johnny’s travel plans. He himself
is not a contestant, he adds, but a close friend of his is. When Wyatt
mentions that his friend is a woman, Johnny can hardly wait to meet her.
Seconds later, she drives up in a Ferrari and nearly runs Johnny over.
As he picks himself up, she introduces herself as Rebecca Rainbow.
Johnny starts to berate her for her stunt, but she ignores him and says
that in tomorrow’s race he is going to come in second. Not particularly
interested in arguing, Johnny enters his hotel, saying only that he was
racing dragsters long before he was with the Fantastic Four, and he has
what it takes to win. As Wyatt and Becky depart, she explains that
because she never raced Johnny before, she had to test his reflexes and
his spirit. Inside the Golden Shoe Hotel, Johnny is greeted by none
other than Mayor Thaddeus P. Longhorn, the organizer of tomorrow’s First
Annual Dade County Drag Race. Longhorn asks the clerk, Teddy, to give
the celebrity the best room in the hotel, room 2H. As Johnny signs the
register, the mysterious figure who followed him from the airport,
stands right next to him, pleased that Johnny does not recognize him out
of costume. As night falls, Johnny begins to feel lonesome and he
wistfully looks at some photographs of his teammates. A few rooms down
the hall, the mystery man radios his employers, who address him as Agent
T. When he says that he has established visual contact with the Human
Torch, they upbraid him for not using the “target’s” code name. The
Torch must be in their hands tomorrow, they say and abruptly sign off,
leaving him muttering about “impolite Yankees.” In a New York hotel
room, Reed is scouting the want ads in the Star for a job suited to his
talents. He is overqualified for everything, he laments to Sue. If he
took any of those jobs, he would quit in a week out of boredom. Suddenly
there is a knock, and the man at the door introduces himself as Arthur
Thornhill of Cynthian Associates. After commenting that Reed is a hard
man to find, he says that his employer will pay 520,000 per week for
Reed’s services. The next day in Dade County, the Human Torch, Becky
Rainbow, and the other drivers prepare for the race. A considerable
crowd has gathered, and the announcer, “Bronco Bob” Smith, introduces
Johnny Storm, saying he has come all the way from New York to be in
their race. Johnny is wearing the Fantastic Four emblem on his racing
suit at Longhorn’s insistence, but Becky reminds him that costumes do
not win races. Soon the cars line up, the flag is dropped, and the race
begins. Johnny and Becky quickly pull ahead of the pack, and much to
Johnny’s surprise, she takes the lead. The helicopter crew observing the
race from above say that Johnny and Rebecca both broke the world record
when they passed the one-mile marker, and that the race will surely
belong to one of them. Suddenly a tornado springs up directly in front
of the two drivers. Johnny and Rebecca are traveling much too fast to
swerve aside, and they are sucked into the vortex. The wind rips the
cars apart and hurls Rebecca through the air, but Johnny flames on and
rescues her. The other drivers pull up, and as Johnny carries her to
safety, the tornado dissipates to reveal the Texas Twister inside.
Johnny attacks, but the Twister catches Johnny in a miniature whirlwind
and blows out his flame. When Johnny uses his flame to launch chunks of
the asphalt roadbed at the Twister’s cyclone, they simply rebound and
send everyone running for cover. Then the Twister creates a sandstorm,
but the Torch melts the sand into glass to keep from suffocating and
shatters the glass with superheated air. Again Johnny attacks, but the
Twister lures him in between two tornadoes that blow out his flame. Then
the Twister knocks him out with one punch. Rebecca is furious, and when
Wyatt arrives in a truck, she says that if they don’t do something
fast, Johnny might be killed. She takes the wheel and drives the truck,
filled with a hundred gallons of gasoline and other racing supplies,
directly into the Twister’s vortex. As She and Wyatt leap to safety, the
vehicle explodes. This stuns the Twister, but when Wyatt tries to knock
him out, the Twister retaliates with a wind-blast. When the Torch runs
up, he finds the Twister and Wyatt in a fistfight. Johnny deduces that
the Twister’s power has been depleted and challenges him. The wind-maker
retreats within another tornado, but Johnny surrounds it with a spiral
of flame that heats it up and forces the Twister out. Still spinning,
the Twister plows a furrow into the desert sand and comes to rest
exhausted. Admitting that his assignment was not as easy as he thought,
the Twister whips up another storm as a crowd of spectators, drivers,
and racing personnel approaches. He can see why his employers wanted
Johnny, he says. But before Johnny can find out who those employers are,
the Twister and his storm depart. Johnny’s flame is too exhausted for
him to follow. Mayor Longhorn soon arrives to congratulate Johnny on
putting on the most sensational drag race the county has ever seen. He
wants a show like that every week and he leaves with Johnny to discuss
the arrangements over a beer. Rebecca tells Wyatt that Johnny seems
about to become a showman. Wyatt hopes Johnny can stand the excitement.
Notes
- Johnny Storm’s location in this issue is undisclosed, but is close to Wyatt Wingfoot’s ancestreal home of the Keewazi Indians in Oklahoma.
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“Bridge of No Return” / IL PONTE SENZA RITORNO
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Vision
- J. Jonah Jameson
- Lynn Anderson (First appearance)
- Frank Gianelli (First appearance)
- Michael Barnett
- M.O.D.O.K.
Other Characters:
- Captain Marvel (Only in flashback)
- Yon-Rogg (Only in flashback)
- Destructor (Only in flashback)
- Scorpion (Only in flashback)
- Doomsday Man (Only in flashback)
Locations:
Synopsis
Going to visit her psychiatrist Michael
Barnett, where Michael reveals that he knows that she is really Ms.
Marvel. When he offers his help, she refuses and walks out. On the cab
ride to the Daily Bugle she recounts the events that led her to become
Ms. Marvel and the battles she has fought since. Arriving at Stark
Industries where she is writing an article about the female employees
that work there, Carol suddenly changes into Ms. Marvel when she senses
something wrong with a super-truck that is hauling radioactive material.
She is unaware that the driver has been replaced by a robot built
by M.O.D.O.K. When she tries to stop the truck the Vision appears and
tries to stop her. After a short battle, the two manage to stop the
truck and learn that the driver was really a robot, and it’s quickly
destroyed. The two then wonder who was behind the whole situation.
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“Arena Kill!” / COMBATTIMENTO MORTALE (1a parte)
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Featured Characters:
- Killraven (Appears in flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Killraven’s Freemen
- M’Shulla Scott
- Carmilla Frost
- Old Skull (Appears in flashback and main story)
Other Characters:
- Brother Axe
- Huey (First appearance)
- Louie (First appearance)
- Old Skull’s father (Only in flashback)
Locations:
Synopsis
Suwannee River, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, New Years Eve,
2020: Killraven and his band of Freemen have come across the people that
reside in the refuge, who have been mostly undisturbed by the Martian
Masters due to the environment they dwell in being hard for the Martians
to attack. After besting their leader Brother Axe in battle, Killraven
and his friends are invited to dine with the people of Suwannee River.
While telling Brother Axe and his people tales of his and Old
Skull’s days in the Martian gladiator arenas, Killraven’s story gets
sidetracked as Old Skull begins telling his life story:
Continued to next issue…
