Fantastic Four Vol 1 Issue 4

## Summary

In the Baxter Building, Reed orders that the remaining members of the Four should look for Johnny, however Ben gives misgivings about the idea. Reed is enraged by Ben;s misgivings, stating it's Ben’s fault that Johnny left the group in the first place and reiterates that they are going to search for him. The Four take the Fantasticar and split it into three in order to search the city for Johnny. Meanwhile, Johnny is working on a car in a nearby garage while showing off his powers to his friends. Ben spots Johnny in the garage and busts through the wall to drag Johnny back to the Baxter Building but becomes overzealous in this pursuit and begins trashing the garage. Ben corners Johnny but suddenly transforms back into a human, allowing Johnny to fly away while Ben gloats that he no longer cares about Johnny before he transforms back into the Thing, causing him to break down. Johnny begins hiding in the Bowery and hiding in a homeless shelter. Johnny finds an old comic depicting Namor the Sub-Mariner, a superhero during World War II who disappeared suddenly. One of the men in the shelter sees Johnny reading the comic and tells him another tenant of the shelter has the same strength that Namor supposedly had. The man is annoyed at the other tenants' attempts to get him to display his strength which causes a fight. The man defeats the other tenants before bemoaning the fact he can’t remember any details about his life before he arrived in the shelter. The other tenants grab weapons and try to beat the man while he is distracted but Johnny stops him. Johnny then uses his powers to burn the man’s beard off to ascertain his identity and discovers the man is Namor. Meanwhile, Reed is still searching for Johnny to no avail. Sue begins searching the Bowery but leaves soon after arriving, unaware that Johnny is a few feet behind her and is taking Namor to the harbor in order to see if it truly is Namor. Johnny drops Namor into the sea, which causes Namor’s power and memories to return and swims off to Atlantis. Namor arrives to see his kingdom and sees it in ruin with radiation covering the city. Believing that humans destroyed Atlantis when they tested nuclear weapons in the area, his subjects fled to parts unknown. Namor then decides to take revenge on humanity starting with New York. Namor returns to New York Harbor and makes his intentions known to Johnny, who fires a flare in order to alert the other members of the Four. The Four arrive and Johnny explains what happened, while Namor awakens a whale monster named Giganto. Giganto marches toward New York and both the army and the Four try to stop it. They fail and Giganto begins smashing the city. Ben runs to an army depot and straps a nuclear bomb to his back with the intention of detonating the bomb inside Giganto. Ben runs into the mouth of Giganto and traverses the monster’s stomach while fighting off sea monsters. Ben reaches a suitable place to put the nuke and sets a timer before making his way to Giganto’s mouth. Ben barely makes it out of the mouth before the bomb goes off and Giganto is killed. Ben is knocked unconscious for a few seconds before recovering but Namor appears with his horn stating he can always call other monsters. Sue then steals the horn but Namor tackles her and sees that she is a beautiful woman. Namor offers to spare the human race on the condition that she marry him. The rest of the Four arrive and rebuke Namor but an enraged Namor states that now he will eliminate humanity and force Sue to marry him. Sue says that she will marry Namor if it means that humanity will be spared. Namor resents the implication that marrying him is a sacrifice and the rest of the Four attack Namor but are knocked away. Johnny creates a vortex that sends Namor far into the ocean and scatters his horn into the depths. Namor vows that he will return to defeat the Four but the Four retort that they will be ready for his return.