Appearing in "The Thing -- Enslaved!"
Fantastic Four #91
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Deviant Skrulls
- Boss Barker (First appearance)
- Lippy Louie (First appearance)
- Slave-Master
- Whitey (First appearance)
- Slave-Keeper (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Richards baby
- Alicia Masters
- Machine Gun Martin (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- The Untouchables (Referenced)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Skrulls (Main story and flashback)
- Inhumans
- Mekkans (First appearance)
- Tektons (First appearance)
Locations:
- Kral System (First appearance)
- Kral IV (First appearance)
- Solar System
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City
- State Prison (Unnamed) (Only in flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America
- Earth
- Maarin (Named only)
Items:
- Fantastic Four Uniforms
- Power Stone (Skrull) (First appearance)
- Slave-Block (First appearance)
- Nerve Collar (First appearance)
- Shock Rod (First appearance)
- Nerve Gun
- statue of Machine-Gun Martin (First appearance)
- Neutralizer Cannon (First appearance)
- Anti-Gravity Rod (First appearance)
- Corrosive Ray (First appearance)
- Brain-Blast Gun (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Skrull Saucers (Main story and flashback)
- Slave Ship (Main story and flashback)
- Slave Truck (First appearance)
- Slave-Stealer Ship (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Thing -- Enslaved!"
Fantastic Four #91
The Skrulls take the captured Thing to the planet Kral, a world whose culture is a mirror of the legendary 1930s. Back in the Prohibition Era, a mobster named Machine-Gun Martin escaped prison and was captured by the Skrulls. The inhabitants of Kral, fascinated by gangster culture, adopted it as their own. Boss Barker makes a bet with his opponent Lippy Louie that his acquisition of the Thing will be able to defeat Louie's best fighter, Torgo, in the Great Games.
While the FF on Earth begin searching for their captured friend, Ben is delivered into slavery at the hands of Boss Barker. Along the way, Ben learns that the Skrulls of this planet adopted 1930's humanoid forms, inspired by Martin, and capture beings from other worlds to fight in their gladiator pits. After a few failed escape attempts, Ben is informed that he will have to fight Torgo. When meeting Torgo, Thing learns that the justification of the Mekkan's life will be the death of the Thing.
Back on Earth, Reed's deductions as to what happened to Ben bring him to the conclusion that he was likely kidnapped by the Skrulls.