Comics:Fantastic Four Vol 1 14

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Appearing in "The Merciless Puppet Master"

Featured Characters:

• The Fantastic Four

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

Supporting Characters:

• Alicia Masters

Villains:

• Sub-Mariner
• Puppet Master

Other Characters:

• Golden Angel (Wrestler)
• Mento-Fish (First appearance)
• Hypno-Fish (First appearance)
• Flame-Eater (First appearance)
• Deep-Sea Fungus (First appearance)
• Mole Man (In an illusion or vision)
• Skrulls (In an illusion or vision)
• Doctor Doom (In an illusion or vision)
• A Giant Scavanger Clam
• The Mightiest Octopus of the Seven Seas
• Admiral Sawyer

Locations:

• Baxter Building
• John F. Kennedy International Airport
• Sub-Mariner's Domed Undersea Villa

Items:

• Roving Eye Television Camera
• Flex-O-Gen Packets

Vehicles:

• Fantasti-Car MK II
• Intercontinental Passenger Missile
• The US Navy's Experimental Bathyscaph
• The Puppet Master's one-man submarine
  
  

Synopsis for "The Merciless Puppet Master"

Having survived his previous encounter with the Fantastic Four, the Puppet Master seeks to get revenge on the Fantastic Four, deciding this time to use one of the groups other foes as his pawn in destroying the group. Creating a puppet of the Sub-Mariner, he commands the Sub-Mariner to contact Sue Storm and ask her to meet him. When she does, the Sub-Mariner captures her and takes her prisoner.

Namor then informs the rest of the Fantastic Four that he has Sue hostage, prompting her teammates to travel to Atlantis to save her. The group battles Namor and his various aquatic defenses and manage to free Susan from the air bubble she is trapped in and defeat the octopus protecting it. The Octopus in turns attacks the Puppet Master's submarine destroying it. With the sub destroyed, the Sub-Mariner regains control of himself and offers Susan a chance to rule by his side. Sue refuses preferring to stay with Reed and the Fantastic Four are allowed to depart.

Notes

• This issue also has a one page feature explaining how the Human Torch's powers allow him to fly in the air.
• Mister Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and the Thing last appeared in Fantastic Four #13; They all appear next in Strange Tales #109.
• The Sub-Mariner last appeared in Strange Tales #107; He appears next in Fantastic Four Annual #1.
• The Puppet Master last appeared in Fantastic Four #8; He appears next in Strange Tales #116. No explanation is given as to how he survived the fall that seemingly killed him in Fantastic Four #8.
• As the Puppet Master muses over which of the Fantastic Four's enemies to use in his plot, he mentions the Skrulls, even though the Fantastic Four's encounter with the Skrulls was not made public knowledge.
  

Trivia

• A bathyscaph is a Deep-sea diving apparatus used for exploration at great depths in the ocean. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh took the bathyscaph Trieste to a depth of 35,820 ft in the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench off the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

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Recommended Reading

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Links and References

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