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  • Fantastic Four Vol 1 220
Letterer1
  • Irv Watanabe
  • Jim Novak
Inker1
  • Joe Sinnott
Inker1
  • Joe Sinnott
Editor-in-Chief
  • Jim Shooter
Writer1
  • John Byrne
Penciler1
  • John Byrne
  • Joe Sinnott
Colourist1
  • Bob Sharen
Writer1
  • John Byrne
StoryTitle
  • "...And the Lights Went Out All Over the World!"
  • Fantastic Four Pin-Up Page
Editor1
  • Jim Salicrup
Penciler1
  • John Byrne
  • Joe Sinnott
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * ** ** ** ** Adversaries: * Skrull X
  • Featured Characters: * ** ** ** ** Supporting Characters: * * Adversaries: * Other Characters: * ** ** ** ** * Locations: * ** ** ** * Arctic ** Items: * * Vehicles: * Fantastic Four Passenger ICMB Missile
Letterer1
  • Irv Watanabe
  • Jim Novak
Colourist1
  • Bob Sharen
Editor1
  • Jim Salicrup
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CoverArtist
  • John Byrne
  • Joe Sinnott
Country
  • USA
Speaker
  • [[W:C:marvel:Susan Storm
Month
  • 7
Synopsis
  • A one page alternate cover for Fantastic Four #214.
  • As Ben and Alicia take a cab to the airport to escape the harsh New York winter for a break in the sun, their cab driver worries about the implications for his insurance should a super-villain decide to mount an attack. Suddenly the cab is caught in gridlock as a city-wide blackout brings chaos to the streets. From the cab Ben sees the boom of a crane on a nearby construction site falling and threatening passers-by. Hurriedly ripping the door off the cab he rushes to catch the boom before it can cause any damage. Across town at approximately the same time Sue and Franklin have just finished a shopping expedition when the blackout occurs, and Sue quickly sees that a couple of window cleaners are about to fall to their deaths. Reacting quickly she saves the men by creating a force field cushion. On Long Island, Johnny is tuning a hot rod with a friend of his when the blackout strikes. Hearing the sound of a light aircraft engine cutting out Johnny blazes through the roof of the garage and creates an updraft that keeps the plane aloft long enough until the power is restored. At the Baxter Building, Reed is busy trying to find the cause of the power blackout in his lab. As Sue, Ben, Alicia and Franklin enter and relate their experiences to him the leader of the Fantastic Four realizes that the blackout wasn't just confined to his lab, and a call from Avengers' Mansion confirms even worse news: the blackout was world-wide! As Johnny enters, Reed surmises that a global electromagnetic failure would seem to indicate disruption at the Earth's magnetic poles. Leaving Franklin in Alicia's care, the four decide to investigate. Soon the Fantastic Four are traveling high above Canada in their ICBM en route to the North Pole. Reed soon realizes that something is altering the magnetic fields of the Earth, but another power outage soon sends the ICBM plummeting towards the ground. The ship's emergency wings deploy automatically and Ben is able to bring it under control and execute a crash landing. The Fantastic Four investigate the source of the EM disruption, tracking it to beyond an ice ridge in the distance. There they find a mile-wide hole in the polar ice around which machines of an alien design are gathered, operated by dark alien creatures. Suddenly a tremendous vibration nearly knocks the Fantastic Four off their feet as a mile-high crystal tower rises up menacingly from the ice.
Notes
  • * Letters : Novak pages 1, 10-27, Watanabe pages 2-7. * A brief origin of the Fantastic Four is given with emphasis on the rocket ride through cosmic rays that gave the team their super powers. This story parallells the origin story as [[W:C:DC:Benjamin Grimm
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  • But Reed .. I feel so strange! The cosmic rays ... what did they do to us?
Publisher
  • Marvel Comics
Year
  • 1980