Descrizione
I FANTASTICI 4
FANTASTIC FOUR
prima serie Editoriale Corno
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1977
contiene inoltre : SKULL L’ UCCISORE e PRINCIPE NAMOR SUB MARINER + DOTTOR DESTINO (ancora
una volta appassionatamente ed abominevolmente insieme in un insano e
devastante team-up)
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, PICCOLA SIGLA A BIRO NELL’ ANGOLO ALTO SINISTRO DI COPERTINA, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI RESA
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“Worlds in Collision!” / FINE DI UN INCUBO
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Synopsis
Ben angrily accuses Medusa of betraying them, but Reed tries to calm
him down, saying that he does not understand. As Ben starts hammering
the bars on the stasis-cage, a bolt of energy knocks him to the floor.
Reed explains that inside the stasis-cage their breathing, their
circulation, and even their talking are much slower than usual. Thus the
force of Ben’s blow traveled through the bars so slowly that the cage’s
automatic defenses were activated. As Reed, Johnny, and Ben hang
suspended in the cage, Reed further explains that the world of Machus
and the world of the Femizons are “moving together,” and the resulting
collision could destroy all the alternate worlds, including Earth. Reed
also says that Medusa probably figured they could escape themselves, and
she could not take the time to free them. Taking that as his cue,
Johnny flames on and tries to melt the bars, but the cage sucks out all
his energy, leaving him weak and his flame extinguished. Reed then
suggests that Johnny concentrate his heat on the bolt
that is holding the cage up. Even though the heat will travel slowly,
the temperature will eventually rise. So Johnny holds one of the bars
with his hand. To an external observer, it would appear as if Johnny
applied his heat for only a few minutes, but because Johnny is in the
cage, it seems like hours. But finally the bolt melts and the cage falls
to the ground in the palace courtyard. No sooner does the cage crash
down than guards appear and begin peppering the trio with energy bolts.
Johnny is too exhausted to battle, and when the men flood the courtyard
with gas, Reed, Ben, and Johnny are overcome. A few hours later, they
revive in Mahkizmo’s throne room, where Mahkizmo himself is seated on an
elevated platform with Thundra chained alongside. Medusa’s escape has
alarmed the Council of Machus and Mahkizmo’s advisors, because if women
have reached that degree of competence on their Earth, says Mahkizmo, it
is because the men have been weak. Weak men are killed here, he
continues. Ben becomes angry, but Reed whispers that eons of unthinking
domination have reduced the men of Machus to fanaticism. Lacking
opposing viewpoints, continues Reed, they have stagnated mentally.
Mahkizmo says that by probing Thundra’s mind, they have learned that the
world of Machus and the world of the Femizons will soon merge. The men
of Machus will welcome the new blood into their breeding stables and
sculleries, he says, and then Machus will rule over all. Just then Reed
lashes out, but he is too slow, because the effect of the stasis-cage
has not yet worn off. Mahkizmo then orders the domina-ray turned on the
three of them, and after their will to fight is suppressed, Mahkizmo
orders them taken to the arena. Reed guesses that the domina-ray allowed
Mahkizmo to defeat them before. When Mahkizmo tells Thundra that she
will join them in the arena unless she joins him in his bedchamber, she
spits out an insult, and seconds later she is shoved down a chute into
the arena. Mahkizmo quickly pronounces his sentence—death by combat—and
orders the release of the “Three-Who-Wait,” and soon three grotesque
monsters advance toward the four companions. They realize that this
battle will be strenuous, for their will to fight has been sapped and
they are still slightly slowed down from being in the stasis-cage.
Nevertheless, they know that they shall battle to save an infinite
number of alternate worlds. Ben grabs one of the creatures by its
tentacles and slams it into the second one. The third one leaps onto
Reed, but Reed wraps it in his arms and holds it for Thundra to punch.
In a matter of minutes, the three creatures are unconscious. Mahkizmo,
however, releases a fourth creature, the Rampager, the deadliest in his
menagerie, who stuns Ben with a powerful punch. But Johnny holds the
monster at bay with his flame, and on Reed’s orders he destroys it with
his nova-blast. Seeing his monsters defeated, Mahkizmo leaps into the
arena himself, saying that in centuries no one has ever escaped justice,
and they shall not be the first. The domina-ray is turned on once more,
and Mahkizmo’s nuclear power punch sends the four companions hurtling
away in pain. Then a brilliant glow appears in the arena, and Medusa and
the Femizons emerge. Unfortunately, the domina-ray soon renders the
Femizons helpless, and Mahkizmo leaps at them, spreading havoc. Ben
tries to attack, but the domina-ray stops him. Then Johnny sees an army
of guards heading toward them, but Medusa tells him to conserve his
strength for a far more important mission than battling lackeys. Reed
then indicates a nearby tower that seems to be the source of the
domina-ray, and he asks Medusa to hold off the guards. Fortunately, the
domina-ray does not affect Medusa, because she is an Inhuman, which is
why she was able to escape earlier. Johnny then flies up and destroys
the domina-ray machine. Meanwhile, Ben renews his attack and knocks
Mahkizmo down with a single punch. Thundra also attacks, but Mahkizmo
suddenly surrounds himself with a glowing field of energy. Reed warns
Ben to stay back, but Thundra and Ben hit Mahkizmo simultaneously from
opposite sides, and much to everyone’s surprise, Mahkizmo explodes. Reed
then explains that the contained nuclear explosion created enough
energy to merge Machus and the world of the Femizons without disrupting
the other alternate worlds. Thundra replies that the two worlds will be
at war forever, but Reed says no, because Femizon characteristics have
now been taken on by the formerly docile Machus slave women, and the men
of Machus have become gentler. Where there were two opposite worlds,
continues Reed, now there is only one, with two equal sexes. Just then
Medusa notices that the four of them and Thundra are starting to fade
away. Anything that doesn’t belong to this new world, says Reed, is
being drawn back to its own world. Suddenly the Fantastic Four and
Thundra, find themselves back on Earth. Reed cannot explain why Thundra
is there, but Medusa suggests that the natural forces “decided” that
Thundra belonged on a world where the sexes are equal by choice. Ben
wonders about this, but he says that he’s glad the “big lady” will be
around. At this, Thundra kisses Ben, and his four companions chuckle at
his embarrassment.
Notes
- Mahkizmo figure on the cover by Romita.
- Events in this issue are followed up in Sensational She-Hulk #39 (May 1992 , uscita in Italia nel 1994 su I FANTASTICI QUATTRO Star Comics n. 117 ).
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“To Bestride the World” / IL MONDO E’ IL NOSTRO REGNO (2a parte)
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Villains:
- Andro
- His Android Army
Other Characters:
- Thing (Only in flashback)
- Lockjaw(Only in flashback)
- Faceless One(Only in flashback)
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Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Doom shows Namor an army of androids that they would use in a
campaign across the planet. However, things are interrupted when his
first Doomsman android, worshiped by the others changes his name to
Omega and plans a revolt against Doom in a bid for conquest of the Earth
for machines.
However, the two monarchs manage to fight off the android
invaders. During a one-on-one fight Doom learns that his Doomsman
managed to escape being trapped in an alternate reality by a chance
encounter with the Thing and Lockjaw and invisibly hitching a ride with
them back to Earth’s dimension. As the fight progresses on, Andro finds
that Doom is still too powerful for him and so he teleports away. Doom
and Namor then reprogram the other androids so that they cannot be
manipulated by Andro and continue plotting their conquest of the Earth.
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“Time Out of Mind” / DIMENSIONE IRREALTA’ ! (2a parte)
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Synopsis
Continued from last issue…
Ann, Jeff and Corey seemingly die at the hands of Slitherogue’s
servants, but Skull falls through the Tower and ends up in what appears
to be Camelot, where Merlin and the Black Knight decide to assist him,
believing Slitherogue to be a demon…
