Episode 9: Never a Skrull Moment! Today we’ll be covering Fantastic Four 37, Thor 142, and the backup story of Thor 146 & 147

Preface:

Fantastic Four 37: Behold! A Distant Star!

Ben and Johnny get blasted by Reed’s Power-Ray while prepping for Reed and Sue’s wedding
Alicia tells Reed that Sue is distraught over the death of her father in issue 32/Episode 1
Reed decides that they need to go seek vengeance for Franklin Storm’s death
On the Skrull Capital World, Princess Anelle and Warlord Morrat talk. Annelle is upset at how terrible Morrat is but she thirsty
Reed convinces NASA to let the FF borrow a rocket, which is way better than Grand Theft Saturn
They use the Power-Ray to punch a hole into subspace and arrive at the Skrull homeworld.
The FF are immediately beset upon by Skrull soldiers, and their powers are out of control!
Morrat captures the FF, Anelle tells him that he must inform her father, the Emperor. Morrat says he will but shifty dudes gonna shift.
Anelle mentions to her father about Morrat capturing the FF and Emperor Dorrek suspects treason.
Reed zaps Ben, Johnny, and Sue with the Power-Ray before Morrat can stop him, then Reed gets blasted with it, but now it’s revealed that the FF have all their powers back. Reed is quite heroic and smart in this scene
The Emperor arrives with the Royal Guard and executes Morrat but Anelle is caught in the crossfire. She’s saved by Sue.
The Emperor is grateful that his daughter is safe so he grants the FF a boon, they ask for Skrull responsible for Franklin Richards death and the Emperor is delighted because that was Morrat’s fault and Morrat is already dead.

Thor 142: The Scourge of the Super-Skrull

Loki is banished to another space-time continuum and decides to seek vengeance on Thor by tricking the Super-Skrull to attack him
Kl’rt rushes to Earth and initiates a brawl with Thor
Sif is awesome and doesn’t get enough respect, but she’s a LEGIT BOSS
Super-Skrull threatens to go full on nova level so Thor hits him with some hurricain level rain and wind to knock him down a peg, see the visual companion for this rad image!
It’s Hammer Time and Thor pummles Kl’rt before using Mjolnir to generate an Anti-Force to banish Super-Skrull from Earth
Loki is extremely salty and it’s great

Thor 146 Backup: The Origin of the Incomparable Inhumans

This is a longer story but we’re only covering the first two bits
In prehistoric times some humans developed faster than others and formed an advanced civilization. They called it Attilan, the hidden city
Randac, the King of Attilan discovers the Terrigen Mists and through the process of Terrigenesis develops superpowers

Thor 147 Backup: The Reason Why

A Kree Sentry remarks that it’s time for the Second Phase as it’s heading to Attilan and being pelted by some of the primitive humans
Sentry reflects that it’s been tasked to guard a Kree Base, even if it takes 1,000 years
He finds Attilan and is glad that the Kree experiment of speeding the development of a group of humans was successful
The Attilanians hope the Sentry comes in peace so they can learn from him. King Randac emerges from the Terrigen mist unharmed but with powers
Turns out, the Sentry is none-other than Sentry 459!
Randac blasts Sentry 459 with an energy blast from his hands and it has 0 effect on Sentry 459
Sentry 459 dubs these people Inhumans
Randac establishes that every Inhuman citizen of Attilan will undergo Terrigenesis and that Attilan shall remain hidden

If you want to read the issues we covered today you can find them collected in:

As for Backups, however, they aren’t on Comixology in the Thor Volumes but are collectible in:

Creators of these issues: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Chic Stone, Stan Goldberg, Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, Vince Colleta, and Joe Sinnott