COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Fantastic Four 175 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1034457007
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Owner:
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WARREN STRICKLAND
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Universal Grade 9.8
WHITE Pages
Published, October, 1976
Galactus, Impossible Man, Gorr &
High Evolutionary appearance.
Roy Thomas story
John Buscema art
Jack Kirby & Joe Sinnott cover
"The HIGH EVOLUTIONARY vs. GALACTUS"
Title: "When Giants Walk the Sky!"
Continued from last issue...
With the Fantastic Four stranded on other worlds, the High Evolutionary has increased his size in order to battle Galactus to save Counter-Earth from being the world devourers next meal. Attempting to appeal to Galactus one more time, the High Evolutionary has to admit that the Fantastic Four have failed in finding a replacement world willing to let Galactus consume it and is forced to resort to physical combat to stop Galactus. The battle is very brief as Galactus banishes the High Evolutionary to the Negative Zone and begins drawing his machines from his World Ship in order to consume Counter-Earth.
Just then Mr. Fantastic and the Thing find themselves transported to Counter-Earth by some unknown means. Surprised to find themselves back on the world they have come to save the two are also joined by the Human Torch and Gorr who are likewise teleported to Counter-Earth. They waste no time in trying to stop Galactus from completing his task. Detecting something different about the Thing, Galactus blasts him with a cosmic eye beam which seemingly has no effect on him.
During the fight, Sue teleports on site and tells Galactus that she found a suitable world for him to consume. She shows him a world that he has not seen before, however when he sees the planets people beaconing him to come, Galactus gathers up his devices and heads toward the planet immediately. As Galactus departs the High Evolutionary returns from the Negative Zone to learn that his created world has been spared. Resuming his original size he takes Gorr and the Fantastic Four to his asteroid to investigate. They watch as Galactus consumes his world and is suddenly wracked with pain as he absorbs the energy. The High Evolutionary, feeling kinsman-ship with Galactus attempts to save his life by speeding up his evolution turning him into a giant brain, however this proves to be too little too late and Galactus is seemingly destroyed.
With Galactus destroyed, the heroes are surprised when another Sue Richards enters the room. This one proves to be the real Sue and the one who showed Galactus a planet to consume was in reality the Impossible Man. The Impossible Man explains that Sue was teleported to his world, in learning of her plight he decided to help out. He explains that the reason why his people agreed to pose as a suitable planet for consumption is because they all evolved to the point where they shared the same mind, and in consuming their entire planet the group mind would live on in the single remaining Impossible Man. He goes on to explain that his planet must have been difficult to digest and that Galactus likely died of terminal digestion. In repayment for offering up his home planet, the Impossible Man asks that the Fantastic Four adopt him and take him back to Earth with them.
Using Gorr's ship to return to Earth, Ben begins to feel strange, and as he removes his exo-suit he suddenly mutates back into his Thing form breaking the suit into pieces.
This story is continued next issue...
Notes:
In this issue the Fantastic Four and High Evolutionary can't make up their mind as to how many billion people live on Counter-Earth, they flip-flop from saying it has three billion to four billion people on it.
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