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I FANTASTICI 4

FANTASTIC FOUR

prima serie Editoriale Corno

ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1971

Contiene inoltre 2 episodi de LA TORCIA UMANA

CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, GRAFFETTE UN PO’ OSSIDATE, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI RESA

Featured Characters:

• The Fantastic Four

• Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
• Invisible Girl (Susan Storm)
• Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
• Thing (Ben Grimm)

Supporting Characters:

• Alicia Masters
• Willie Lumpkin

Villains:

• Mad Thinker (First appearance)
• Awesome Android (First appearance)
• Various gangsters
  • Blackie Skarr

Other Characters:

• Yancy Street Gang (First full appearance)
• Cousin Bones (Only Appearance)
• Shorty
• Pierre (Sue’s hairdresser)
• Peggy (Johnny’s date)
• General Electronics Co.
  • Van Dorn
  • Cartwright
  • Richard
• Higgins (a driver)
• Fatal Finnegan (Only Appearance)
• New York policemen

Locations:

• Baxter Building
• Yancy Street
• General Electronics, LTD. in New England
• Bones ‘n Bailey Circus in northern Florida
• A movie set in California

Items:

• Fantasti-Flare
• Vibra-Guns

Synopsis

While the Fantastic Four are summoned to Reed’s lab to see his latest
creation, a miniature android, the FF are blissfully unaware that a new
menace named the Mad Thinker has gathered an army of criminals and is
using his probability calculating computers to come up with the perfect
crime to best the FF.

While the Fantastic Four are busy helping Johnny’s Cousin Bones
and his faltering circus, the Mad Thinker and his goons take over the
Baxter Building. When the FF return home they are shocked to find that
the Thinker took Reed’s Android technology to create the Awesome Android
to fight them.

The Thinker has the FF on the defensive when suddenly all of
Reed’s devices stop working, and the FF capture him. Shocked over what
happened, the Thinker is told by Reed that whenever Willie Lumpkin comes
to deliver the mail his devices are all deactivated when the simple
mailman buzzes himself in.

Trivia

• Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and the Thing last appeared in Strange Tales#110 (in last italian issue); They all appear next in Strange Tales #111 (also in this italian issue).
• The Mad Thinker and the Awesome Android appear next in Fantastic Four #28 (in Italy in F4C # 22).
• The Thing formally took up a wrestling career in Thing #28 (unpublished in Italy), when he joined the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation.

Featured Characters:

• Human Torch

Supporting Characters:

• Fantastic Four
  • Mr. Fantastic
  • Invisible Girl
  • Thing

Villains:

• Eel (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• The Wizard
• Moxie Gahagan
• Ted Braddock
• Dan Braddock (patient at Veteran’s hospital)
• Charles Lawson
• Baldy (a crime boss)

Locations:

• New York City
  • Glenville
  • Manhattan
    • Baxter Building

Items:

• Fantasti-Car MK II

Synopsis

When the Torch’s popularity has waned due to negative editorials made
by newscaster Ted Braddock have been turning public opinion against
Johnny.

When a new villain known as the Eel steals Project X, a miniature
atomic pile, the Torch with the help of Charles Lawrence, the inventor
of the device goes after the Eel. When the device is at risk of
explosion, the Torch tries to convince the Eel to give over the device.
The Eel does not believe him and continues his attack.

The Torch is forced to use his powers to take down the Eel’s
copter and battle him on the ground. The Torch manages to capture
Project X leaving the Eel with the arriving authorities. Johnny takes
the bomb out to a safe place where it detonates and he attempts to
absorb the heat and flames from the explosion. He succeeds but is
seriously injured and Reed Richards uses a device to try and heal
Johnny.

After Johnny recovers, Braddock retracts all his negative statements about the Human Torch and declaring him a hero.

Featured Characters:

• Human Torch

Villains:

• Asbestos Man (First appearance)
• Blackie Barker and his Henchman

Other Characters:

• Mr. Fantastic
• Invisible Girl
• Thing
• Frank (Human Torch fan)

Synopsis

While witnessing the Human Torch stopping a crime, Orson Kasloff
dwells on the fact that he is an under appreciated scientist and that he
could make a better living as a master criminal using his scientific
mind to pull off perfect crimes. After his first attempt at burgling
fails, he decides he’ll end the threat of the Human Torch to criminals
everywhere. Creating a chemically treated suit of armor and weapons made
of asbestos, Kasloff becomes the Asbestos Man.

Challenging the Human Torch to a public battle, he manages to
outsmart the Human Torch delivering a humiliating defeat to the hero and
giving Asbestos Man the credentials to get hired on by a local crime
boss. However, when he pulls off an actual crime, the Torch challenges
Asbestos Man again, using his flame powers to eat all the oxygen around
Asbestos Man instead of trying to burn him, forcing Asbestos Man and his
crooks to surrender.