TITLE: Fantastic Four vol. 1, Issue #37
YEAR: April 1965
COMPANY: Marvel Comics
Written by Stan Lee
Illustrated by Jack Kirby
Inker: Chic Stone
Letterer: Artie Simek
With the marriage of Reed Richards and Sue Storm approaching, the guys are trying on tuxedos while Reed is experimenting on a power-ray which is a power amplifier that draws energy from an unknown source from somewhere beyond the confines of the solar system and converts it into raw unusable power.
While it’s all good and dandy, unfortunately Ben’s girlfriend Alicia tells them that Sue is very upset and Reed must go to her.
Sue ends up telling Reed that she doesn’t know if she could marry him just yet as the thought that her father’s Skrull murderer (which I reviewed in issue #32) is still loose.
Of course, Reed is willing to make his fiance feel better, so with the help of NASA, the Fantastic Four timewarp into the Skrull galaxy to find Sue and Johnny’s fathers killer.
Meanwhile, the Skrull responsible is the Warlord known as Morrat who wants nothing more but to be the new King of the Skrulls. His girlfriend is the King’s daughter named Anelle and she knows how evil he is but yet she loves him so much.
When the Fantastic Four arrive on the Skrull planet, they are shocked that their powers do not work and are quickly beaten by Morrat’s soldiers.
Captured and powerless and on the Skrull planet, how will the Fantastic Four survive as prisoners?
Of course, you’ll need to leave it to Reed Richards to save the day!
If anything, this is a campy issue, as Reed Richards would do anything for his dearest Sue, but for those who read Fantastic Four for a long time, see this love change between the two as Reed gets to preoccupied in his work and often acted like a jerk towards Sue. And as for Sue, needless to say, writers have changed her over the years, for better or for worse.
The other thing that is so crazy is how head over heels Anelle is towards Morratt. She keeps saying how she wishes she never met him, how she really feels about him (in a negative way) but then despite how bad he is, she loves him. I found her character so annoying.
But other than that, it’s an issue that is quickly leading up to Reed and Sue getting married and an entertaining issue for the most part.