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♪ (thunder rumbling)

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(explosion)

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(siren wailing)

(siren wailing)

- Where'd the rock come from?

- It's the meteor that Reed brought from a farmer.

It has fallen in his field.

- Are you picking up any sound, Ben?

- There's a crackling sound, like radioactive material.

- I haven't been able to penetrate this meteoric material

with my most sensitive devices.

- Maybe I can burn a hole in it.

- Play 'em on!

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- Concentrate it more!

Don't destroy the structure!

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I can't even phase it!

- Hey, hold it!

What do you wanna do, blast this outta here?

Let me try it.

Oh, it's still hot!

That might make it brittle enough to knock a hunk off.

(explosion)

Ouch!

That about busted my little pinkie.

But I got it, Chuck!

- This is remarkable!

There is some sort of nuclear core in this meteor,

yet it showed negative on the Geiger counter.

I think I'll test it on the Radium Stabilizer.

We'll project the test on the big screen.

- I'm all set!

- Here we go!

(siren wailing)

- I have it!

(siren wailing)

- That material has the strangest

molecular structure I've ever seen!

(siren wailing)

- It's changing!

- Yes, it's absorbing the Radium from the Stabilizer!

Quick, turn it off!

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- This thing looks dangerous!

It will need a lot more study.

- Right, Sue!

Ben, will you put the big meteor in the lead vault?

- Okay, Skipper.

It'll take just a sec.

- Hey Johnny, what's going on outside?

- I don't know, it sounds like Orion.

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Wow, come look at this!

Some kind of globe floating over the ground.

- Come on, let's get down there fast!

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- Silence!

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Before I speak to you!

Observe the building behind you!

- It's gone!

- It's incredible!

- I can't believe it!

- Look above you!

- It's floating! - Hey!

- It's floating in the sky!

- It's floating in the sky!

This man, whoever he is, has the most amazing powers

I've ever seen!

- Now, behold the building returned to its foundation!

(crowd chattering)

That is an example of my power!

So listen well to what I have to say!

I hereby nullify every man-made law!

There will be none to give orders except me,

the molecule man!

I will be the law!

- Not while we live! - Who dares?

Who dares question the molecule man?

- We dare!

We who are known as a fantastic fore!

Who are you?

- Since it will not affect my plans for all of you,

I will tell you who I am!

And also of the source of my...

tremendous power!

♪ (eerie music)

A few years ago, I was just a laboratory technician

working for Acme Atomic Operations.

I did all the work, and they made all the money,

and I dreamt of bigger and better things for myself.

But no man can work with atomic devices

while he's mind poised with other forces!

(airplane engine rumbling)

I had survived a trillion-to-one accident!

The terrific atomic forces had done something to me!

I knew a molecular change had taken place!

A tingling of power!

(airplane engine rumbling)

Because of the accident,

I have acquired the power to rearrange all molecules,

to control everything, to be all powerful!

All mankind shall obey my every command!

- Not all mankind will obey!

Not the fantastic fore!

- You fools!

Do you think yourself's capable of crossing swords with me?

That streetlight!

I'll rearrange the molecules!

(airplane engine rumbling)

Now behold, a giant aircraft engine can reverse pitch!

(airplane engine rumbling)

- I didn't get my force field set fast enough!

The wind has caught free!

(airplane engine rumbling)

- Now, I create magics from dust particles!

(airplane engine rumbling)

(airplane engine rumbling)

- He can create 'em!

(airplane engine rumbling)

And I can clap!

- Then wreck the wind machine, I'll go help read!

Play 'em on!

(airplane engine rumbling)

- Such confusion!

(laughing)

(airplane engine rumbling)

- That's one!

Now, stretch down!

Now, I'm not too loose!

(airplane engine rumbling)

(laughing)

- You see how I can toy with a fantastic floor?

But I must leave you for now!

I have a meeting with your military leaders!

(laughing)

(airplane engine rumbling)

- My next encounter will be different!

We have to find a floor in his amazing power!

(airplane engine rumbling)

You know, Kang, our answer to the Molecule Man

may be in electricity.

No one has ever caught it,

or stopped it long enough to study it.

- I get it!

You don't think the Molecule Man

can fall to the Molecule in electricity?

- Right soon, and I have an idea for a weapon

that he won't be able to stop!

- Well, let's get to work on it right now!

- Extra, extra!

Molecule Man, speak to Chief of Staff!

Extra, extra!

- I am sure you are all aware of the changes I have caused.

In all of your military equipment,

all of your tanks and armor are now sawdust.

(airplane engine rumbling)

(airplane engine rumbling)

Your aircrafts are no more!

(airplane engine rumbling)

(airplane engine rumbling)

(airplane engine rumbling)

Your ammunition powder, orders!

(airplane engine rumbling)

I have rearranged all the molecular structure!

(airplane engine rumbling)

(airplane engine rumbling)

- Why is this meeting called, and what is your plan?

- I called this meeting to inform you

that I am now your Supreme Commander,

and you shall do as I say!

- No, no, no, no, no, no!

I shall be ruler of the world!

- You think this will do the trick?

- Yes, Ben, with this gun,

I believe that we can meet the Molecule Man on equal ground.

- I don't quite get it, then how do we use the gun?

- Quite simple, it's a defense weapon.

You shoot the object that you think he's going to change,

(airplane engine rumbling)

coating it with a micro-electrode power.

Since he can't rearrange electronic molecules,

this defeats his effort.

- I get it, Reed, instead of bullets, the gun shoots dust!

- The Molecule Man is terrorizing the entire country!

How do we start to defeat him?

- We start now!

- And so this city is under explicit orders

from the Molecule Man.

Any citizen, knowing the whereabouts of the Fantastic Four

must report this information to the Molecule Man.

- Careful now, it's on the steps of the library.

- Sue, you become invisible and get close to him.

Johnny, get as close as you can, but try to stay hidden.

Be ready to flame on one-eyed signal.

Okay, go!

You and I'll bring up the rear.

- It's clobberin' time, let's go!

- And if you don't deliver the Fantastic Four to me

by tomorrow, I will destroy the city!

And in the meantime, I'll put a glass cage

over the entire area.

And as a further reminder of my powers,

observe the statue on my left.

I release you, Simba!

- Hold it, Molecule Man, it's clobberin' time!

You're not wanted in the crowd, you kiddies!

- So at last, the Fantastic Four are here!

See how fast you can clobber the other lion's hatchew!

- Now we'll test the weapon!

- Oh, oh, oh, I release you!

- What, what?

Could it be?

Can I be losing my powers?

The lion didn't come to life!

The effect hurts my arm!

- It works, now to get set up for Johnny.

You're in trouble, Johnny.

You realize that your powers are not as you thought they were.

Surrender!

- Leave her!

Not while I can change the molecules of dust

in the atmosphere!

- Don't let him get away, Johnny!

- Okay, Reed!

Wow, I can't touch his bubble!

- And he forms the track faster than I can burn it!

- Quick, Sue!

See if you can throw your force field in front of it!

- I think I can!

- Good work, Sue!

Can you hold him?

- I can't!

He's dissolved his capsule!

He's getting away!

- Don't worry, Sue!

When he gets down, I'll clob!

They think a simple force field can hold me!

Ah!

- He's falling!

- Don't be too sure!

(laughing)

From dust particles, I, the molecular man,

can form any piece of equipment I need!

(laughing)

That trick with the statue of the lion!

I must find out what it is and how it works!

And that pain in my arm!

I don't know what it could be!

I'll find out!

And then, the final round!

- We've located a tank!

The molecule man hasn't rearranged!

I intend to get that information

to the Fantastic Four immediately!

Now, I've increased the range

of our powder electrode gun to two miles!

This should be of great help!

(phone ringing)

- Headquarter's Fantastic Four!

Yes, General?

Yes, sir!

Yes, General!

Thank you, sir!

We'll check it out!

Goodbye!

This is the opening we've been waiting for!

Let's go!

- There's the tank!

When Mr. Molecule Man aims his wand at this stuff,

he'll be in for a big surprise!

Start shooting, Ben!

(gun firing)

- That's it, good, Ben!

Shoot all the rest of that equipment while we rig the tank!

- Okay!

- Johnny, you jump inside and torch that cannon

out of the turret!

- Quicker in a wink!

- We'll put our powder electrode gun in the turret,

and get close enough to give him a bad time!

- Hey, the cannon is cut loose!

Here it comes!

- That does it!

Everyone get aboard,

and we'll see if we can find Mr. Molecule Man!

Stop here!

I'm gonna stretch up and see if I can spot him!

(screaming)

Ah, there he is in the square again!

Hurranging the people!

- Thus far, I disregarded your disobedience,

but soon the Fantastic Four will be no more!

And then?

So, head for the square and get ready for a fight!

You will be regimented into work forces

to start my campaign for World Conquest, you will?

But, but, thank you, look out!

Ah-ha, the enemy approaches!

See how easy I stop them,

and tings the molecules of cement,

and breaks the streets of them!

Okay, Chonnany, start cutting!

Everybody out!

We'll take him on foot!

- Take the powder electrode gun!

- I'm just gonna flame clobber!

- Sir, that didn't stop them!

- Well, perhaps this will give them problems!

Fire hydrants, start water-molecular expansion!

(engine revving)

- Hey, get it!

Tie it in a knot!

- Sir, turn invisible,

and see if you can get that wand away from him.

I think it controls his power!

Now for me to get in there!

- You can't let this pipe get loose!

It would tear up the town!

- How about a ring of fire to hold him?

- Oh, thoughts!

What puts out fire?

I'll fuck it to water, thoughts!

I'll fuck it to water!

Now fly away, little boy, I'm busy!

- Ah, my wand!

- What's happening?

It's the Invisible Girl!

Frost particles will reveal, huh?

There you are!

Now above you is a crushing mass

controlled by the wand you tried to steal!

(laughing)

- Yeah!

Wee!

- That was close!

- Too close for me!

- Hey, Johnny, go to headquarters

and bring me the meteor fragment!

Hurray!

- Okay, he's back in a flag!

- Why the fragment?

- Just came to me.

I think it's the real answer.

- It's clobberin' time with your own firefight,

Mr. Molecule.

- We're the giant flower!

(laughing)

But I will now drop you into a bottomless pit!

- I'll put a few shots of dust at his feet!

- My arm!

What happened to the pit?

- No, I'll crush you!

- I'll shoot powder electrodes over Ben's head!

- I can't create anything to crush the wind!

I can't stand it!

The pain!

What is it?

- It's your finished molecule, man!

Shall I explain?

- Finished?

- Wherever I fire this gun, your powers are nullified!

And when you try to use them, the feedback hurts your arm!

- I don't believe it!

Hold up the weapon!

- Here it is!

- Careful, Reed!

Don't trust him!

- Aha!

Disintegrate!

Disintegrate!

- Like I said, you're through!

- No!

No!

I'm not beaten!

I'll go back to my nuclear globe and sink!

- Here, Reed, here's the meteor fragment.

What's going on?

- Add you later.

It's still glowing.

- I can just keep this thing focused on the globe!

- Like I thought, the atomic globe is reacting.

- Oh, look how it's shrinking!

- Now it's changing shape!

- Who is it?

- He's the lab technician who was injured

in the atomic explosion.

- What happened?

Why am I not in my lab?

Why am I out here in the street?

- We take over now, thanks to the Fantastic Four.

- How did you ever figure out

that the meteor fragment was a secret?

- We knew that the molecule man was hit

by an atomic explosion and was full of radiation.

I hoped the meteor fragment would absorb

his molecular powers, and it did.

- Just think, that's all that's left of the powers

that was gonna conquer the Earth.

- Yes, well, it looks like the power

is gone from the molecule man.

- Yes, but he knows how he got it.

Who knows?

Maybe he'll do it again.

(suspenseful music)

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

(suspenseful music)

(roaring)