Appearing in "Enter... Dr. Doom!"
Fantastic Four #57
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- House of Agon
- Pacifier Robot (First appearance)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Aunt Petunia (Mentioned)
- Galactus (Mentioned)
- New York Mets (Mentioned)
- Yancy Street Gang (Mentioned)
- King Kong (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Zenn-Lavians (unnamed)
- Robots
- Inhumans
- Inhuman Dogs
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth-600026 (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Doctor Doom's Armor
- Negative Barrier
- Inductors (First appearance)
- Power Cosmic (unnamed)
- Captain America's Uniform and Shield (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Enter... Dr. Doom!"
Fantastic Four #57
Brief Summary:
The Fantastic Four battle the Sandman and the Wizard as they try and escape from their parole hearing. The Wizard is caught, but the Sandman escapes. He ends up attacking them at the Baxter Building and steals some of Reed's inventions before leaving. Meanwhile, the Silver Surfer meets Doctor Doom and visits his castle. Doom distracts the Surfer and uses one of his inventions to steal the Surfer's power.
Detailed Summary:
While attending a parole hearing for the Sandman and the Wizard; Reed, Sue and Ben walk in on the two villains making an escape attempt. The Sandman creates chaos by splattering his sandy body around and between Reed, Ben and Sue. Reed tells Sue to trap the Sandman with her force field, but the Invisible Girl soon finds herself unable to do anything. The Wizard grabs Sue from behind and covers her mouth so she cannot cry out for help.
With the Invisible Girl helpless, Sandman makes his escape. Now that the Sandman has eluded the three heroes, Wizard boasts of how he planned the escape attempt. While in Latveria, Dr. Doom invites the Silver Surfer to his castle to learn more about his powers and to show him his many technological inventions.
While back in New York, Reed, Sue and Ben begin searching for the Sandman, however the Sandman comes to them. He brilliantly slips in through an open window and wraps his rock-hard arm of sand around the Invisible Girl. He tells Reed that as long as he holds onto this chick of his, he won't stop him. Ignoring the very real danger to his wife of disobeying the Sandman's threat to harm her, Reed turns himself into a giant disc and frees Sue from Sandman's deadly grip. Soon the Sandman manages to escape, but not before sifting into Reed's lab and stealing a number of devices.
Back in Latveria, Dr. Doom distracts the Silver Surfer long enough to use a device on him that steals the Surfer's power cosmic and transfers it to Dr. Doom. While elsewhere, Lockjaw, Johnny and Wyatt are transported to a world full of dinosaur-like creatures and that they are transported away before getting stomped on. While in the Hidden Land, Maximus boasts that the only power capable of destroying the Negative Zone barrier is Black Bolt's own voice. Back in Latveria, Dr. Doom decides it's time to use his new found powers to strike at his old foes, the Fantastic Four, and the world itself.
Appearing in "To the Death!"
Tales to Astonish #80
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- unnamed Atlanteans
- unnamed Seismologists
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Atlantis
- Quagmire of Doom (First appearance)
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Puppet Master's Hideout
- New York City
- New York
Items:
- Psychic Clay
- Behemoth Puppet
- Iron Gates of Atlantis
Vehicles:
- Krang's Battle Cruiser
- Atlantean Rifles
Synopsis for "To the Death!"
Tales to Astonish #80
Continued from last issue...
Returning to Atlantis, Lady Dorma and the Sub-Mariner find themselves confronted by the Behemoth, a giant creature that has broken free from its prison below Atlantis and is now on a rampage through the ocean. Unknown to them the creature is under the control of exiled Warlord Krang who is using a puppet created by the Puppet Master to control the beast. Namor sends Dorma ahead to Atlantis while he battles the monster.
As the Sub-Mariner struggles in battle against the Behemoth, the Puppet Master reminds Krang that he would allow him to go unharmed if he gave him a puppet to control the creature. Finding the Puppet Master beneath him, Krang angrily dismisses him. This proves to be his undoing as at that moment Namor summons electric eels to shot the Behemoth. This shock transfers back to the doll, causing a jolt of electricity that makes Krang drop the puppet breaking it and relinquishing his control over the gargantuan beast.
While the Behemoth is distracted, Namor swims around the creature as fast as possible, luring it to the Quagmire of Doom where the monster sinks to its apparent demise. As the Sub-Mariner heads back to his kingdom, Krang arrives there before him and confronts Lady Dorma. Showing her the useless puppet of the Behemoth, he bluffs her into believing that he is still in full control of the creature and that if she wishes Namor to live, she is to leave with him to get married at once. Not wishing harm to come to her true love, Dorma agrees and leaves.
Before going, she contacts Lord Vashti to tell him that she is leaving to marry Warlord Krang, but doesn't explain why and terminates the video call. This leaves Vashti to tell Namor the bad news when he arrives from his successful battle against the Behemoth.
This story is continued next issue...