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Fantastic Four (1961) #20
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Fantastic Four 20 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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1028121001
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Owner:
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Mississippi Mudcats
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Issue #20 features the origin and first appearance of the Molecule Man, Owen Reece, as well as a Watcher appearance and a letter from George R.R. Martin. In the story, after examining an asteroid with proof of organic life in space, the Fantastic Four investigate a strange fireball that has appeared in the streets. Sucked into it, they find it's a device belonging to the Watcher. Inside, the Watcher tells the Fantastic Four of a man who was exposed to a nuclear accident which transformed him into the Molecule Man. Warning of the potential danger of the Molecule Man's molecule altering abilities, the Watcher sends out the FF to stop him.
In their initial conflict, the FF seem unable to defeat him and each attempt to stop the Molecule Man is met with failure. Fed up with the FF's interference, the Molecule Man erects a glass dome around Manhattan and demands that the people of the city help him capture the FF. Reed eventually realizes that the Molecule Man's powers don't seem to have any effect on organic material and so they lay a trap in which they pose as statues in Alicia's apartment, while Alicia alerts the Molecule Man of their location.When the Molecule Man's powers fail to affect the FF, they are able to knock his wand -- the focal point of his power -- out of his hands and keep it away from him long enough for the Watcher to arrive and take the Molecule Man away. The Watcher takes the Molecule Man to an alternate dimension where time travels faster so that he would age soon and die.
The Molecule Man was always one of my favorite villains and this book is actually the first FF I can remember owning as a kid. This 9.8 is one of two highest graded in the census. We acquired it in the 3/8/2020 CL Auction. It certainly was not cheap.
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