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Issue - 43 Title - Lo! There Shall Be an Ending! Writer - Stan
Lee Art - Jack KirbySummary: While the Fantastic Four battle the Frightful Four, Doom
recuperates from his recent battle with the Thing at the Latverian Embassy. His
hands, still unusable after the Thing wounded them, he angrily dismisses his
physician after he is given the prognosis that he needs more time to recover.
Alone Doom begins to scheme his revenge using his Emotion Charger, when suddenly
he spies a craft heading to the Baxter Building.
Notes:
- Doom is still recovering from his battle with the
Thing, see Fantastic Four #40
- Reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual #9. Collected in Essential Fantastic Four Volume 3,
Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four Volume 5 (see below)
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3 Title - Bedlam in the Baxter Building! Writer - Stan Lee Art - Jack
KirbySummary:
Reading of Reed's
imminent marriage to Sue Storm, Doom plots to use his Emotion Charger to call upon
an army of super-villains in order to crush the Fantastic Four on the Richards'
wedding day. The first is the Puppet Master who uses his mind control powers to
try and slip in an uninvited guest. His ploy however is foiled by Nick Fury
and SHIELD. The Mole Man attacks next, burrowing up from below the Baxter
Building. Luckily, the X-Men are on hand to defeat the villain and his
Subterraneans. After these two attacks, Thing runs to warn Reed of further attacks but finds
that Reed, Sue, and Johnny are already fighting off the Red Ghost
and his Super-Apes. Doom's Emotion Charger draw many other villains such as
The Mandarin, Grey-Gargoyle, Kang, a Skrull, and others. As more villains appear, so do heroes
that come to fend them off. The Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, and Daredevil all
come to stop the waves of attacks. In the midst of this, the Watcher appears to
Reed and takes him to his home. There he offers Reed the chance to pick anything
he sees that may help him win the day. Reed makes his choice and is
transported back to the battle. There is finds he correctly picked a Time-Displacer,
a device which can return beings back to the immediate past. He uses the device to
send all the villains back to where they were with no memory of what has
transpired. With all of the villains returned to their proper
places, the wedding continues without further interruption.
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Notes:
- According to Reed, despite Doom not being present and
hit by the Time-Displacer, he should not have any memory of the events.
- Reprinted in Fantastic Four Annual 9, 10, and
Fantastic Four: The Wedding Special #1
- Retold in Marvel: Heroes & Legends
- Collected in: Essential Fantastic Four volume 3,
Marvel Masterworks: Fantastic Four Volume 5
  
 
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