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I FANTASTICI 4

FANTASTIC FOUR

prima serie Editoriale Corno

ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1972

Nella storia principale di questo numero già che non bastava LO SPAVENTOSO QUARTETTO / FRIGHTFUL FOUR che è già il terzo episodio consecutivo che rompe i coglioni adesso al ripugnante poker di svitati ci si aggiunge pure il solito noiosissimo ma pur sempre assai molesto DOTTOR DESTINO

Contiene inoltre : CAPITAN MARVEL  (che perde l’occasione buona di dare una bottarella alla VEDOVA NERA e se la lascia portare via sotto il naso dai magnaccia russi agli ordini del Pensatore Pazzo ma naturalmente dietro a tutto c’è sempre Putin anche se all’ epoca era ancora minorenne)

CONDIZIONI BUONISSIME, UN PO’ DI USURA IN COSTOLA, FRAMMENTINO MANCANTE NELLA PUNTA DELL’ ANGOLO INFERIORE DESTRO DI RETROCOPERTINA , L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA

Featured Characters:

• The Fantastic Four
  • Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards)
  • Invisible Girl (Susan Storm)
  • Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
  • Thing (Ben Grimm) (Re-joins Team)

Antagonists:

• Frightful Four
  • Wizard
  • Trapster (Peter Petruski)
  • Sandman (Flint Marko)
  • Medusa
•  Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom)

Other Characters:

• Doctor Doom’s physician
• New York policemen
  • Sgt. Donnegan

Locations:

• United States of America
  • New York City, New York State
    • Manhattan
      • Baxter Building
      • Latverian Embassy
  • New Jersey
    • Frightful Four mansion

Items:

• Anti-Gravity Discs
• Wizard’s ID Machine
• Paste-Gun

Vehicles:

• The Wizard’s Anti-Grav Airship

Synopsis

After rescuing the brainwashed Thing from the Frightful Four, Mister
Fantastic and the Invisible Girl flee from the Wizard and his other
seemingly brainwashed thrall, the Human Torch. When they escape in
Johnny’s car, the Wizard decides to break off pursuit and free his other
Frightful Four teammates, who were taken out of the fight by his own
anti-gravity discs. After the Wizard and the Torch get them down, the
Frightful Four realize that the Torch had deliberately hampered them
whenever they tried to harm one of his former teammates.

Reed and Sue return to the Baxter Building, where the Thing
begins to fight back. They quickly subdue him with knockout gas, and
Reed begins the long task of trying to find a cure for the Wizard’s
brainwashing process. Meanwhile, the Wizard and Medusa inspect the ID
Machine, and confirm what the Wizard suspected: someone tampered with
the machine during the battle, and the Human Torch has only been
pretending to be under their control. They ambush the Torch and knock
him out, so the Wizard can prepare the final phase of the revenge
against the Fantastic Four.

At the Baxter Building, Reed has finished constructing a device
that he hopes will revert Ben’s personality to normal. But when Reed
activates the device it overloads and explodes. Reed rushes in to pull
the control helmet from Ben’s head before he is permanently harmed, with
Sue throwing a force field around him for protection. They then drag
Ben into a nearby bed where they can only hope that he will awaken
cured. At the Latverian Embassy, Doctor Doom inspects his hands and
finds that they have healed after his last battle with the Fantastic
Four. Doom is furious over such an ignominious defeat, but he has
already planned a suitable revenge, as his Emotion Changer ray is
complete and ready to use.

Back at the Baxter Building, the Frightful Four’s anti-grav ship
lands on the roof and the villains begin infiltrating the building. Reed
completes his tests and concludes that the Thing has been cured, just
as the Frightful Four ambush them. The Wizard shows Reed and Sue that he
has Johnny trapped outside on a massive anti-gravity disc. The Wizard
then threatens to send Johnny up into space to suffocate unless the
Fantastic Four surrender. When Reed tries to save Johnny, the Wizard and
his cohorts show that they mean business. The Wizard then gives
Richards ten seconds to surrender. However, before this time is up the
Thing awakes and attacks the Wizard, rending the villain’s armor with
his bare hands, destroying his anti-grav control unit. As Reed and Sue
attack their foes, Johnny is able to break free from the now deactivated
disc and join the fight.

As the battle rages, Medusa decides to retreat. The Torch sees
her, but fails to prevent her escape in the Wizard’s anti-grav ship.
With Medusa’s departure the survivors of the Frightful Four are easily
subdued. But when Reed telephones the police to have them send an
officer over to collect the prisoners, the officer on the phone thinks
it’s a prank call. After Johnny leaves to drop off their foes with the
authorities, Reed and Sue check on Ben and welcome him back to the
group. Ben is surprised by this, after the hatred he displayed earlier.
But Reed points out that Ben couldn’t help himself, and he is welcomed
back to the team.

Notes

• The Fantastic Four’s next appearance is in Fantastic Four Annual #3 (in this italian next issue) for Reed and Sue’s wedding.

• Doctor Doom’s hands were crushed by the Thing at the end of Fantastic Four #40 (in Italy in F4C #35). Doom’s scheme for revenge plays out in Fantastic Four Annual #3 (in this italian next issue).

• What happens to Medusa after her escape is chronicled in X-Men First Class Vol 2 #15 (in Italy in 100%MARV-XM FIRST CLASS #4), where she meets the X-Men, who free her from the Wizard’s influence. She next encounters the FF in Fantastic Four #44 (in Italy in F4C #40), where it is revealed that she is a member of the Inhumans.

• After their defeat in this issue, The Frightful Four never
  reassemble. Individual members are seen again from time to time, but
  their only subsequent appearance as a group is decades later in Amazing Spider-Man #657 (in Italy in SMP #570)  which recounts in flashback an untold tale of the Frightful Four’s
  first attempt to find a replacement for Medusa, in which the group
  recruits the Beetle into their ranks. 

Featured Characters:

• Captain Marvel

Supporting Characters:

• Carol Danvers
• General Bridges
• Black Widow

Villains:

• Man-Slayer
• Mad Thinker (not fully seen)

Other Characters:

• Harry

Locations:

• Florida
  • Cape Canaveral
• Caribbean

Items:

• Moon Rocket

Synopsis

Continued from last issue… 

As Mar-Vell attacks the Man-Slayer, he saves Carol from the attacking
robot. Although he’s over powered initially, in Russia the Black Widow
manages to get free and destroy the controls for the Man-Slayer to
making the robot become inert, however she is taken down by the
Communists. Mar-Vell uses the robots inactivity to change back into
“Walter Lawson”, however when the soldiers try to arrest him, he uses
his illusion casting powers to make himself appear invisible so that he
can escape. 

Notes

• The story of Black Widow and the Mad Thinker continues next in Avengers #63 (in Italy in THC #75). 

Captain Marvel Vol 1 #13

May, 1969

Editor-in-Chief

Stan Lee

Cover Artist

Frank Springer
John Romita

“Traitors or Heroes?” / TRADITORI O EROI ?
Writer Gary Friedrich Penciler Frank Springer Inker Vince Colletta