Descrizione
I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1980
nell’ episodio principale di questo numero la ribalta è quasi totale ed assoluta per Susan Storm in Richards che stanca di anonimato ed invisibilità ha vestito i panni di diva mondana e di donna fatale e si è recata a Hollywood in cerca di scritture e contratti, finendo invece per imbattersi nel solito fradicio Principe Namor il Sub-Mariner che fa il cascamorto e boccheggia attorno a lei come un pesciolino rosso in un vaso da notte
contiene inoltre : MISS MARVEL (attorniata in questa storia da due scostumate, scollacciate e svergognate amazzoni come Namorita e Scarlet Witch) e PANTERA NERA
CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI RESA
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Alicia Masters (Behind the scenes)
- Agatha Harkness (Behind the scenes)
- Franklin Richards (Behind the scenes)
Villains:
- Cynthian Associates
- Victor von Doom II
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Behind the scenes)
- Retrievers of Atlantis
Other Characters:
- Impossible Man
- Sub-Mariner (Namor McKenzie)
- Stanley R. Stanley
- NASA personnel
- Willie Lumpkin (Behind the scenes)
Synopsis
Sue Richards is in her Hollywood dressing room trying to telephone
her husband, from whom she has not heard in many days. She wonders
whether something might be wrong, but she dismisses the thought when she
hears a knock on the door. She is wanted at the main office, says Tyde,
the publicity man for Imperial Studios. When Sue reaches for the
doorknob to let Tyde in, it suddenly changes into the Impossible Man,
startling her. He is supposed to be out touring the city with Agatha
Harkness and Franklin, says Sue angrily. The Impossible Man replies that
he got bored, and she shouts that she is fed up with him turning up
everywhere she looks. Miffed, he turns into a bee and buzzes away. As
Tyde enters, Sue calms down, and than they both depart. Reed, meanwhile,
is at the upstate New York Cynthian Associates research facility trying
to telephone Sue. He wonders why he has not heard from her and whether
she is partying all over Hollywood. When he receives no answer, he hangs
up and returns to the laboratory. One of his co-workers on the “mystery
project,” Dr. Kaminski, is delighted to be working with “one of
America’s most brilliant scientists.” None of the scientists knows the
nature of the project, because they are all working on only one section
of it. Other scientists elsewhere are said to be working on different
sections. Reed declares that some of the microcircuitry that he has seen
has only a limited number of functions, so he has been able to deduce
what the project might be. He adds that he does not like it. In another
room, the project administrator watches Reed on a monitor, impressed
with Reed’s deductive faculties. When one of his underlings suggests
that Reed is becoming too suspicious, he replies that Reed’s scientific
curiosity is just what they need to perfect the device that will make
him master of the world. Sue is admitted to the Sub-Mariner’s office.
When she saw him earlier, she thought he was just an actor in makeup,
and she is astonished that he is actually the head of the studio. After
exchanging pleasantries, Namor confides that he has always thought of
her as his friend—he was even in love with her once—but he has left her
alone in recent years after she married Reed. Sue says she has never
seen him so depressed and lonely, and he replies that, much to his
chagrin, all of Atlantis wants to worship and deify him. Ever since his
people were liberated from suspended animation and Atlantis was rebuilt,
they have hailed him as some kind of god. Cripples have even begged for
him to heal them with his touch, he says. He soon came to despise the
role that his people unwittingly thrust upon him, and he commanded Lord
Vashti to send the crowds away until they regained their senses. Vashti
asked him to be more understanding, but Namor replied that they should
worship Neptune as their god. Enraged, Namor then hurled his trident,
the Scepter of Neptune, through a marble pillar. Then the crowds burst
into his chamber, beseeching him to cure their maladies, and he thrust
his people away from him and fled. Soon he arrived in New York, where he
tried to find Sue. A “meek postman” told him she had gone to Hollywood,
and when he flew to California, he learned that she was working for the
movie studio that he once bought and never sold. When Namor finishes,
Sue promises to help him in any way she can. The Human Torch overflies
the NASA Space-Command Center looking for Ben and Alicia. He decided to
part company with Wyatt Wingfoot and Rebecca Rainbow after beginning to
feel like a “third wheel.” Suddenly the soldiers, not knowing who he is,
open fire, and as Johnny dodges flak, Ben, on the ground below, starts
to wreck their artillery. Stanley R. Stanley, the soldier in charge,
exhorts his men to keep shooting, saying that this will show Colonel
Williams that he can be trusted with power. It does not take long for
Ben to deal with the guns and greet his teammate, and he tells Johnny
that Alicia had to return east to work on her art. Ben and Johnny walk
away, leaving Stanley R. Stanley sputtering about the forms Johnny has
to fill out. Sometime later, in Hollywood, Namor supervises Sue as she
dons a medieval costume for a role in a swashbuckler movie. Much to the
consternation of the film crew, they are suddenly interrupted by a group
of six huge androids that burst onto the set looking for Namor. He
recognizes them as the Retrievers of Atlantis, and the leader-android
declares that Namor’s people need him. If he does not return to
Atlantis, continues the creature, then they will be forced to take him
there themselves, in any manner possible. Namor warns Sue to stand
behind him, and she hastily shoves the crew to safety with her force
field. Then the closest android attacks Namor with its prehensile arms.
Namor states that he will not return to Atlantis as a god, only as the
prince of his people. Then he breaks free of the android, and Sue sheds
the medieval clothes from over her Fantastic Four uniform and surrounds
herself with a protective force field. The leader-android orders
Thermatron and Electron, two of the other Retrievers, to dehydrate Namor
with heat and shock him with electricity. Invisible, Sue watches them
bring Namor down and erects a field around Electron that temporarily
short•circuits it. The master Retriever commands Thermatron to
incinerate her, but she uses her field to bring a catwalk down on the
robot’s back. A green Retriever surrounds her with a jelly-like
substance, but she expands her force field until the android splatters
apart. Recovering quickly from the strain, Sue turns a wall invisible
and lures the robot with the prehensile arms into striking it. When the
wall shatters, the room floods with water from one of Namor’s giant
office fishtanks, and Namor’s strength returns as the liquid touches
him. Using a prop catapult, the invigorated Namur beats back the
androids. Then he punches the flying Retriever out of the air, dodging
heat and electric blasts from Thermatron and Electron. Sue keeps the
others at bay with force-spheres as Namor grapples with the leader.
Finally, when the leader calls upon the other androids for assistance,
Sue turns Namor invisible. He twists out of the leader’s grasp just as
Thermatron and Electron open fire. This blows the leader’s chest apart,
and when it falls, the others suddenly collapse as well, deactivated.
Sue explains that she deduced from what Namor told her that the
leader-android supplied most of the group’s power, since it never
battled her or him directly. Lacking energy and the master Retriever’s
commands, the other Retrievers were rendered inert. Namor commends Sue
for her ability, and she offers him a place to stay with Reed and
herself if he needs it. But Namor declines, saying that he must, after
all, return to his people as their ruler. He can no more forsake them
than renounce his heritage as a prince of the blood, he says, and he has
at last accepted that even a monarch must sometimes be a prisoner. Then
Namor flies away, and Sue’s eyes fill with tears. She hopes that he
eventually finds the peace that he so rightly deserves.
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“The Deep Deadly Silence!” / IL MORTALE SILENZIO DEGLI ABISSI
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Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Beast
- Scarlet Witch
- Mystique (First appearance)(Cameo)
- Wundarr (Appears in flashback and main story)
- Annie Christopher (Appears in flashback and main story)
Locations:
Synopsis
Ms. Marvel has traveled to Avengers
Mansion to seek their resources to find a way to go after Tiger Shark,
who has just escaped into the ocean with Namorita as his hostage. This
leads to a brief battle against the Beast and Scarlet Witch. After
everything is explained, the two Avengers allow Ms. Marvel to use their
lab to devise a way to allow her to breath underwater, a task at which
she is able to succeed.
Tracking down Tiger Shark to a sunken battleship, there she
fights against Tiger Shark, who uses the sunken ship’s missiles and a
squid to try and stop her. However, in spite of these efforts, Ms.
Marvel gets up close and battles Tiger Shark hand-to-hand. The battle
ends with Ms. Marvel beating Tiger Shark and knocking him out. However,
it’s at the moment Ms. Marvel’s ability to breath underwater wears off,
and she also blacks out. When she comes to, Ms. Marvel finds that
Namorita had summoned a rescue ship from Atlantis that came to their
rescue, and took Tiger Shark into their custody.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Collectors
- Unnamed Samurai Warrior
Locations:
Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
The Black Panther
prepares to split ties with Little and Zanda as he has no more use for
their treasure hunting adventures.
Princess Zanda introduces them to a group of men known as the
Collectors – a society of antiquities traders that study the ancient
mysteries. Princess Zanda presents a map to Abner Little detailing the
location of the lair of the Sacred Samurai. Little is instantly
intrigued and begs the Panther’s help in going on another quest. The
Black Panther however, has no interest in these Collectors.
