Appearing in "The Fantastic Four"
Fantastic Four #1
Featured Characters:
- Fantastic Four (First Appearance and Origin for Entire Team)
Antagonists:
- Mole Man (First appearance) (Origin revealed)
- Giganto (First appearance)
- Tricephalous (First appearance)
- Rock Monster Guardian (Ugu) (First appearance)
- Overseer (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Citizens of Central City
- Pete (First appearance)
- Roscoe (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- Taxi driver (First appearance)
- James Kreig (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- National Guard
- French Soldiers
- Pierre (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Subterraneans (First appearance)
- Inhabitants of Monster Isle (First appearance)
Locations:
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- Africa
- Atomic Power Plant in French Africa
- Australia (Mentioned)
- Australia (Mentioned)
- South America (Mentioned)
- Monster Isle (First appearance)
- Subterranea (First appearance)
- Valley of Diamonds (First appearance)
- Earth Orbit (First appearance)
- Earth
Items:
- Fantasti-Flare (First appearance)
- Hunter Missile (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Marvel-1 (First appearance) (Unnamed) (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "The Fantastic Four"
Fantastic Four #1
Chapter 1[]
A shadowy figure fires a flare out of a window. The flare forms the words "The Fantastic Four!"[Continuity 1]
Susan Storm is having tea with a friend. When she sees the flare, she turns invisible, gets into a cab,[Continuity 2] and offers the surprised driver a banknote when she reaches her destination.
Ben Grimm is trying to find a coat that fits him. A clerk in the haberdashery sees the flare. Grimm bursts out of the too-small door, rips a manhole out of the street, follows the sewers, and bursts out when he thinks he has reached his destination. He is struck by a taxi which is wrecked.
Johnny Storm is working on his latest hot rod in a service station. The mechanic sees the flare, which turns into the number 4. Johnny bursts into flame and flies away, destroying his car. The authorities treat him as an enemy attack, so he reluctantly melts the jets that come after him. A nuclear heat-seeking missile locks onto him, and, just as Johnny's flame starts to fade, an impossibly long pair of arms grab the missile and throw it out to sea.
Johnny's savior is the same man who fired the flare. He greets Susan, Ben, and Johnny with the words, "There is a task that awaits us ... a fearful task!" But how did these four people become so fantastic?
To beat the Communists in the Space Race,[Continuity 3] scientist Reed Richards, sister and brother Sue and Johnny Storm, and pilot Ben Grimm sneak aboard a rocket;[Continuity 4] Ben had warned the others about needing sufficient shielding for cosmic rays, but Sue challenging his courage persuaded him to fly.[Continuity 5] In space, the four are bombarded by cosmic rays.[Continuity 6] The auto-pilot lands the ship back on Earth,[Continuity 7] where they find themselves physically transformed and possessing remarkable new abilities. Sue can turn invisible. Ben has transformed into an orange, muscular "thing" with super-strength.[Continuity 8] Reed's body became highly malleable, allowing him to stretch into any shape. Johnny's body bursts into flame, and he can fly. They decide to use their abilities to become the super-team known as the Fantastic Four. They give themselves the individual names Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Girl, Human Torch, and the Thing.[Continuity 9][Continuity 10][Continuity 11]
(Chapter 2) The Fantastic Four Meet the Mole Man![]
Atomic plants in the Soviet Union, Australia, and South America have been mysteriously attacked by cave-ins. Another attack occurs in Africa, where a huge monster burrows out of the ground but is recalled by a human figure. The Fantastic Four travel aboard their private jet to Monster Isle, which Reed has deduced is the same distance from each attack. There, they are attacked by a giant three-headed monster. Reed stops the monster, but a cave-in separates Reed and Johnny from Ben and Sue. Beneath the island Reed and Johnny land in the Valley of Diamonds, which temporarily blinds them. The Mole Man appears, revealing he is responsible for the attacks.
(Chapter 3) The Mole Man's Secret![]
The Mole Man explains his origin. Having been ridiculed by humanity, he went off alone in search of the legendary land at the center of the earth. Eventually, he washed ashore on Monster Isle. Making his way through a cavern, he was caught in an avalanche and rendered almost blind.[Continuity 12] However, due to his other heightened senses taking over, he mastered the subterranean creatures[Continuity 13] and built himself an underground empire.
Meanwhile, on the surface, Ben wrestles a rock monster. Ben and Sue find their teammates listening to the Mole Man's plan to invade the surface world. He sends his monster army against the Fantastic Four. Whilst Johnny distracts the biggest one, the team flees through a tunnel, which Johnny seals shut behind them. After the Fantastic Four escape in their jet, Mole Man destroys the island so the surface world cannot trouble him again.[Continuity 14]
Appearing in "Origin of Doctor Doom!"
Fantastic Four Annual #2
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Boris (First appearance) (See chronology)
- Werner von Doom (First appearance) (Only in flashback) (Death) (See chronology)
Antagonists:
- King Vladimir Fortunov (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Victor von Doom's mother (Mentioned) (Main story and flashback)
- Reed Richards (See chronology)
- Ben Grimm
- Daniel Kurtz (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Monks of Doom (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Zefiro (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Doombot (Only in flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Latveria (First appearance)
- Doomstadt (First appearance)
- Doctor Doom's Castle (First appearance)
- Mount Doom (First appearance; unnamed)
- Doomstadt (First appearance)
- United States of America
- Tibet
- Latveria (First appearance)
Items:
- Doctor Doom's Armor
- Freeze Grenade
- Gold statue that changes into a lump of mud
- Little device to make someone play a fiddle (and that can be disconnected)
- Mechanical man that looks like Doom to trick a firing squad
- Salve to cure headaches, but destroys hair
- Special compounds that make gypsy caravan wagons impervious to shells
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Origin of Doctor Doom!"
Fantastic Four Annual #2
Doctor Doom is met by his minion Boris on the eve of his mother's death. Doom ventures out to the field where his life began and reflects back...
As a young boy, Victor von Doom's father --a gypsy healer-- is asked by the King's men to heal the King's wife. Werner von Doom tries his best but fails, and when the King's wife dies of her illness, he sends his troops to get Werner. Werner and his son Victor flee into the mountains, where the father wraps the boy in his own coat while they hide in the snow and ice. They are found by the rest of their clan and taken back to the village. Before he dies from exposure, Werner asks Boris to look after his son. Boris interprets this to mean to watch out for the boy, not look after him. Furious at the death of both his father and mother at the hands of the King, Victor digs up his mother's old chest, filled with mystical potions and books.
Doom soon becomes a master of science and sorcery, using both skills to protect his people and swindle the wealthy. He avoids execution by allowing the King's guard to capture robot duplicates of himself. Eventually, Victor's technological know-how attracts the administrators at State University, who offer him a full scholarship in America. Victor agrees, and while attending State University, he almost ends up sharing a room with Reed Richards. However Doom's arrogance and demands for private quarters prompts Richards to leave. This snubbing leads to Richards rooming with Ben Grimm. Victor becomes determined to contact the netherworld and one day, Reed enters Victor's room unannounced and looks over Victor's notes for the device that would allow Victor to achieve his goals. Victor catches him and instantly becomes angry, kicking Reed out and ignoring the warnings that some of his calculations are off.
When his device is complete, Victor has his assistant activate it, but the miscalculations cause the device to explode in his face. Scarred, Victor bandages his face and is ejected from school in disgrace for his unauthorized experiment. Victor travels the mountains of Tibet, where he finds an order of monks who teach him about magic. Later, Doom has them fashion him a suit of armor. Impatiently, Doom places the iron mask on his face before it has time to cool. Doom then leaves the monks and eventually takes over his homeland, where he becomes the arch-nemesis to the Fantastic Four.
... With his recollections over, Doctor Doom returns to his castle, leaving Boris to wonder when Doom will menace the human race once again.
Appearing in "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!"
Fantastic Four Annual #2
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Gorzenko, Latverian Embassador
- The Fantastic Four (First appearance)
- Mister Fantastic (First appearance)
- Invisible Girl (First appearance)
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned)
- Fred Astaire (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Locations:
Items:
- Doctor Doom's Armor
- Encephalo-Gun (First appearance)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!"
Fantastic Four Annual #2
While the FF deal with some troubles with the Fantasti-Car, Dr. Doom is rescued from deep space by the time-traveling Rama-Tut. Conversing, they somehow illogically theorize that Rama-Tut is perhaps a future version of Dr. Doom. Inspired all the same, Rama-Tut returns Doom to Earth while the ersatz pharaoh resumes his wanderings[1].
Back on Earth, Doom reaches the Latverian embassy and begins formulating a trap. With the FF unaware that Doom is really the ruler of Latveria, he invites them to a party, putting a drug in their drinks to make them see illusions. He tricks each of them into thinking they're being attacked by the others, before they eventually realize his machinations.
Regrouping, the team battles at their headquarters. Reed offers Doom a chance to destroy him, providing Victor can use a mentally-powered weapon against Richards before Reed can do likewise. As the contest begins, Reed offers Doom one last drink. Engaging the device, Doom believes he destroys Richards and departs the Baxter Building triumphantly. However, Reed has given Doom a taste of his own medicine, by drugging him with his own hallucinogen.
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