It was defeated when the Thing strapped a nuclear bomb to his back and walked it down Giganto's gullet where it exploded. It first appeared in The Fantastic Four #4 (May 1962) where Namor used the Horn of Proteus to call upon it to attack New York City. Giganto is an Atlantean bipedal whale-like creature with arms and legs. In this issue, the reader is treated to Namor the Submariner giving Susan Richards and the kids of the Future Foundation a tour of the Gigantos' grazing land. Since then, the Franklin-verse is occasionally referenced but for the most part it just sort of sits there waiting for writers to pick up the concept and drop it once again. FANTASTIC FOUR 3 COMIC BOOK SERIESEventually, all of the heroes would return to the main Marvel Universe in the four-issue limited series Heroes Reborn: The Return (1997). Anyway, during this fight (see the one-shot Onslaught: Marvel Universe 1996), the heroes apparently die when in reality Franklin created this alternate dimension and sent the heroes there which began the second volume of most of Marvel's flagship titles. Onslaught is a great big bag of narrative crazy but in a nutshell he's a sentient psionic entity created from the consciousnesses of Charles Xavier and Magneto. This is a reference to the pocket universe created by Franklin during a massive fight between the heroes of the Marvel Universe and an entity called Onslaught. Starting in issue 2 of Robinson and Kirk's run, Reed has made reference to the universe created by his son Franklin Richards, often affectionately referred to as the Franklin-verse, as the source of the bug-like horde that attacked New York City in that issue. Oh, and by the way, Kirk nicely depicts the official flag of Latveria, the country of which Doom is the ruler, as established prior to this run. Then to add further injury to both insult and injury, Doom was then tricked into thinking he'd killed Valeria, an act which actually appeared to shake him deeply. To add insult to injury, the Living Tribunal punished Doom for harming the Watcher by proclaiming that his then-unblemished visage would thenceforth be impervious to harm except that every "base act of malice on part carve a new scar" on his face. Lang then proceeded to beat him to within an inch of his life. For this as well as other reasons, Scott and the Future Foundation attacked Latveria and neutralized Doom. Doom killed Scott "the second Ant-Man" Lang's daughter Cassie Lang. Lang and the substitute FF" as an event which seems to have made him receptive to her ideas.įor those unaware, in the excellent FF series written by Matt Fraction and Lee Allred with art by Mike and Laura Allred, Doom was completely and utterly humiliated. Valeria Richards in her note to her mother references Doctor Doom's "encounter with Mr. Incidentally, I can find no reference to Damage Control owning the pug which is seen wandering the site as Reed and Lenny converse. (He thinks he looks like Paul Newman.)ĭamage Control was created in 1989 by Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colón, and has been the subject of four limited series to date. Lenny is Lenny Ballinger, foreman of Damage Control who apparently takes offense to having his appearance compared with actors James Coburn and Lee Marvin. Well, in the Marvel Universe, Damage Control is a construction company that specializes in repairing the property damage caused by superpowered conflicts between heroes and villains. In this issue, Reed is shown speaking to an individual by the name of Lenny who happens to be a representative of Damage Control about the repairs to the Baxter Building. However, this did not prevent him from reconsidering a return to crime. In November 2011's Fear Itself: The Home Front #6, it was revealed that Karloff was a cancer survivor who now required an oxygen tank. Coincidentally, his last appearance prior to his apparent death occurred fairly recently. When first created by Stan Lee, Ernest Hart, and Dick Ayers, asbestos was believed to be a benign substance but subsequently it has become common knowledge that it causes cancer. Orson Karloff, was a villain of the Human Torch who first appeared in Strange Tales #111 (August 1963), which was at the time a starring vehicle for Johnny. For those interested, the Asbestos Man, real name Dr. Johnny Storm again makes reference to a prior foe who in issue 1 of this run he mentions as having died, the Asbestos Man.
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