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When the Skrulls first came to Earth, they sent down a team of four agents to impersonate and discredit the Fantastic Four. To travel back and forth to the mother-ship in orbit, they used a small skiff disguised as a rooftop water tank. After capturing the agents, the Fantastic Four used the skiff to visit the orbiting mother-ship and bluff the Skrulls into abandoning their plan to conquer Earth.[1]

It is not certain whether the skiff was originally constructed to look like a water tower, or the engine, avionics, etc. were retrofitted into an existing tower. It is also not certain what became of the ship after the Fantastic Four captured the Skrull agents. Presumably, Reed Richards took it apart to study Skrull technology.

Years later, when Raksor came to Earth on a mission, he parked his starship on a New York City rooftop and left it there in plain sight, disguised as a wooden water tower.[2]

Notes

  • Several subsequent stories featuring the Fantastic Four, beginning with Fantastic Four #92, identified a saucer-shaped starship in their possession as the saucer that the FF had captured from the Skrulls during their first encounter in Fantastic Four #2, statements that were obviously incorrect. The matter was partially resolved in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook #1 when the "Where are they now" update to the entry on Kurrgo noted that "The ship the FF got from Kurrgo has been consistently referred to as a Skrull ship, indicating that Kurrgo had purchased the ship from Skrulls."
  • While the spaceship used by the four infiltrators was only seen traveling between Earth's surface and the orbiting mother-ship, Raksor's craft had a Skrullian star-drive[2] that made it capable of interstellar voyages.

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