Crystal	You know I can't stay -- That I must join Black Bolt and the rest of the Royal Family in trying to save our homeland!
Johnny Storm	I know Crys -- And I understand. But at least we've got this time, this moment ... And until there'll be others, I can wait and remember this.

Appearing in "Thunder in the Ruins!"Edit

Featured Characters:

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

Supporting Characters:

• Crystal

Villains:

• Diablo

Other Characters:

• Lockjaw
• General Robles
• Carlos

Locations:

• Central America
  • Tierra Verde
    

Items:

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Vehicles:

• Pogo Plane MK I
  
  
  

Synopsis for "Thunder in the Ruins!"Edit

Arriving in time to stop the Terra Verde army from blowing up the Mayan followers under Diablo's rule, Johnny soon finds that Crystal is under his control and believes herself to be the Myan god Ixtel. While Diablo confronts and captures the ruler of Terra Verde.

The other members of the FF arrive and help Johnny in his fight to free Crystal from Diablo's control. During the fight, Thing battles Lockjaw and the two are transported away. As the battle rages on a squabble between Diablo and Terra Verde's ruler causes an explosion in the Myan temple when a chemical Diablo is working on is knocked over. The explosion seemingly kills Diablo, and frees Crystal from his control. Ben returns and tells the others they wouldn't believe where he'd been, and Crystal tells Johnny she must depart again in order to fight to free the Hidden Land from Maximus' rule.

Appearing in "What Mad World?"Edit

Featured Characters:

• Thing (Earth-616)
• Thing (Earth-721)

Supporting Characters:

• Lockjaw
• Mr. Fantastic (Earth-721)
• Susan Storm (Earth-721)

Locations:

• Earth-A (Aka Earth-721)
  
  

Synopsis for "What Mad World?"Edit

A story telling where Ben and Lockjaw went during the fight between the FF and Diablo. Ben finds himself in an alternate universe where Reed Richards became the Thing. After fighting off a number of this realities Reed's robots, Ben learns that in this reality only Reed and Ben traveled into space in a rocket. What happened was Ben got the powers of Mr. Fantastic (winning the heart of the Susan Storm of this reality) and Reed became the Thing, losing himself in his work. Ben is then transported back to his own reality to find the battle is over, and tells the others he could not believe where he's been. Six Page Story

NotesEdit

• This issue introduces an alternate reality that would later be called "Earth-A" and later still be numbered Earth-721.

• This issue is obviously formatted to the 25 Cent Giant format and fitted into a smaller page count. Which would explain the 6 page second story.

• This issue features a letters page, Fantastic Four Fan Page. Letters are published from Roger Schoolcraft, Larry Trepel and Bruce Roland.
  

TriviaEdit

• No trivia.

See AlsoEdit

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• Cover gallery for the Fantastic Four series

Recommended ReadingEdit

• None.

Links and ReferencesEdit

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