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On an outer-space adventure

They got hit by cosmic rays

And the four were changed forever

In some most fantastic ways

No need to fear, they're here

Just call the Four

Fantastic Four

- Don't need no more! - That's ungrammatical!

Reed Richards is elastic

Sue can fade from sight

Johnny is the Human Torch

The Thing just loves to fight

Call the Four

Fantastic Four

And now, this is Gary Owens

welcoming you back to Dick Clark's College Scholarship Telethon,

with Dick's special guests, the Fantastic Four!

Now let's do a quick recap of how you got your incredible powers.

OK, but remember, folks, we're professionals.

You don't wanna try this stuff at home.

You took off in Reed's untested spaceship

to investigate a weird streaking phenomenon

which somehow altered normally harmless cosmic rays,

which changed you in amazing, no, make that fantastic, ways.

Your lives would never be the same

but you unselfishly pledged to use your new powers

for the good of mankind.

However, few buildings wanted you as tenants

and your adventures began the moment you found an apartment.

A strange Puppet Master was controlling human beings

through dolls sculpted in a special neuro-kinetic clay.

But his lovely blind daughter, Alicia, knew nothing of his evil schemes.

Mad at Reed for keeping him out of the lab,

the Thing left the Baxter Building under the Puppet Master's control,

resulting in Sue's capture.

The Puppet Master then forced Alicia, disguised as Sue,

to accompany the Thing back to the Baxter Building,

not knowing he was under orders

to destroy Mr Fantastic and the Human Torch.

Thus, clearing the way for him and his doll puppets

to take over the city.

Slash Curtis, a brutish vicious criminal

from the dregs of society.

The courts gave you life imprisonment,

but you shall serve me well.

...welcoming you to the new escape-proof maximum-security state prison,

built when voters approved a construction-bond initiative.

I say no break-out till I get the guard patrols timed.

Hear me, Slash Curtis!

Hey, sweetheart, got a newsflash for you.

Jailbreak!

They've seized the guard's weapon. Here comes the warden!

Warden Butler, how will you control this situation?

There's no cause for alarm, Diane. That gate is state of the art.

I've been waiting for you, warden.

Say "cheese".

I must be accurate.

But once I've made your likeness perfect,

you, too, shall be my puppet slave.

I don't understand why you won't speak to me.

I feel that someone, some force, is preventing you.

Just one moment, Mr Grimm.

Mrs Richards. Stop!

I must speak to you about the revolting chemical smells

coming from Dr Richards's laboratory.

And there was a huge piece of scientific equipment delivered yesterday.

I'm speaking to you, Mrs... Well, what cheek!

Reed, can you get it?

Reed?

OK, OK! Fine! I'll see who's there.

He might as well be on Mars when he's in his lab.

Never picks up a phone. Never answers a doorbell. Never!

Great!

Reed, Sue's back with tall, orange and gruesome!

Terrific time to forget your keys.

I just got out of the shower and... What's with you, Ben?

If I wasn't soaking wet, I'd flame on and barbecue your spareribs.

Ben? Is that your name?

Sue?

Reed! Reed, help! The Thing's gone bananas!

Ben, stop!

What's wrong? What's gotten into you?

Your eyes, they're glassy. You don't know what you're doing.

If you want me, come and get me!

Sorry, Ben. That was the only way to stop you.

And now we'll see if my formula works.

My head!

What's happening?

My face!

It's human!

I'm Ben Grimm again.

I'm me.

It's the formula I've been working on.

I didn't tell you. I didn't want to raise your hopes.

What's wrong with me?

I came here to clobber my best friends.

Johnny!

Are you OK? I didn't mean to hurt you.

You're yourself. You're Ben again. Not that it's much of an improvement.

Oh, yeah? How would you like a knuckle casserole?

Won't somebody tell me where I am? Who you all are?

The resemblance is uncanny but she's not Sue.

I remember now.

She's the Puppet Master's stepdaughter.

Come here. The poor kid's... Well, she's blind.

She sure does look like sis, but where's Sue?

Who is the Puppet Master?

Him? He's a weirdo with a place in the village.

Sue's his prisoner there but, well...

It ain't her fault.

Your voice.

You're the strong kindly one who came to my stepfather's house.

But you seem different now.

No, wait... It is you!

Yes, you are the same wonderful person.

Yeah, wonderful.

The formula wasn't permanent then but we've got to move.

I can't leave Sue in the hands of a madman!

Flame on!

The squirt gets to fly and we gotta go catch a cab!

I think I can do better than that.

I call it the Fantasticar.

You wait here, kid.

I'll be back for you.

I want a 24-hour lockdown, Clancy.

You got it, warden.

And put Slash Curtis in solitary.

Warden Butler! Hear me!

You OK, warden?

Warden?

Warden Butler, the man you saw put down a prison riot moments ago

is now acting very strangely.

Must free all prisoners.

Must free all prisoners.

Must free them now.

You can't do that! Warden, no!

He's activating the gate control. What is happening?

The warden! Go, go, go!

Now seize him, prisoners.

Quickly!

Take him to the main cell block!

Yes, Slash!

With him as your hostage,

you can begin to negotiate for the things I want.

A detachment of guards has moved in to surround the main cell block

but the rioting prisoners have taken control.

More importantly, they now hold warden Lewis G Butler in their hands.

Getting out of this chair would be easy for Reed,

but I'll have to do it the old-fashioned way.

I'm out of here!

And Slash Curtis has just designated himself chief negotiator

for the rioting prisoners.

What's this?

Did the Invisible Woman think I'd be unprepared for an escape attempt?

How foolish!

The force of the fall shook me into visibility.

I must get away.

It's useless to resist me. You are my helpless puppet.

Sullivan Street dead ahead. Let's pray we're not too late.

There. That's the street number Alicia gave us.

Hurry, Ben!

It's clobbering time!

Sue! Darling!

Reed, I can't run away!

He's controlling me with a puppet doll.

I have one for you, too, my friends.

And I've got something for you, bug eyes!

- There's no way you'll escape! - It's you who won't escape!

Won't escape!

He's getting away with Sue.

Won't escape!

I got him, Johnny. Can't hold him... Ben!

I hear you, stringbean!

Say good night, Gracie!

Won't escape.

Now let's find Susie Q.

You're too late!

Can't get there, but have to try!

Hold it, stretcho. Look at the kid!

Hang on, sis. I'm on the way.

She's yours!

No! Johnny, help!

I moved too fast. I'm out of gas.

You had it when it counted. Great job, son.

I guess I wasn't too shabby at that, was I?

Don't ever put me through that again, sweetheart.

Well, it wasn't fun for me either, darling.

Smooch later. Look, we've got work to do.

Slash Curtis has just demanded weapons and freedom for all prisoners

or the warden will pay the price.

Let's get busy!

Fantasticar, front and centre.

We're going directly to jail.

Well, the cops gotta play ball with us,

long as we got the warden here.

Just to make sure that they don't get a little cute,

we're gonna take out an insurance policy.

Bull, Skink, you know what to do!

Silly me, forgot to thank you for opening the gates for us.

Must free all prisoners.

Things have been quiet since Slash Curtis made his demands but...

What in the world?

It's the fantastic flying torch,

the stretchable man and that powerful, incredible thing.

They rescued the jumper off the 59th Street Bridge the other day.

They're travelling in some sort of amazing flying vehicle.

Just hang loose, honey, and you won't get hurt.

This won't be as easy as I'd hoped.

Now they've got both the warden and that television reporter as hostages.

If we make the slightest mistake,

it could cost them their lives.

And the total continues to grow.

Your tribute to the Fantastic Four is gonna give a lot of kids

the great education they deserve and our country needs.

Now let's get back to the exciting story of...

Where's the Thing, Gary?

Well, we're not sure, Dick.

He went backstage during the commercial break and...

No sweat, Jack. Old blue eyes is back!

I figure if we're gonna raise a ton of money for education,

we gotta sell the most educational stuff of all.

Namely, the adventures of yours truly and my three assistants.

So cough up some cash cos I don't like deadbeats.

The audience has already been very generous

but if you sit down, I'll buy those books.

You will? Great!

And, by the way, I got plenty more where these came from.

How nice!

Now back to the story of the Puppet Master.

When we arrived, the situation at the prison had reached boiling point.

We've got to do something but we can't risk a direct assault.

Alright, brain-o, you've got smarts. Now use 'em.

We've got to make a two-pronged attack.

Sue and I will go high while you and Ben go low.

OK. What's a prong?

Start the low-prong phase now!

Come on, matchstick! Let's make like heroes!

That crazy plane!

I can't see it no more!

Let 'em have it!

You rang?

There's nothing like recycling scrap metal...

...to keep the garbage in!

Now that Slash is out of it, I'm taking charge!

Oh, yeah? Who says? I'm...

Naughty, naughty!

- Get her! - Reed, now!

Excuse me, gentlemen.

What's the hurry?

I'd say this wraps things up, in every sense of the word.

I don't know how to thank you.

I must have been temporarily insane.

You were simply another victim of the Puppet Master.

We'll bring him to justice!

Didn't know you was a sculptor.

Reed helped me move all your stuff from your stepfather's house.

Finding a home for me was your idea, wasn't it, Ben?

Nah. We all decided.

I mean, you know, Reed's got some bucks from his inventions...

Well, yeah, I guess it was.

I've never met any man as kind and as beautiful as you.

Yeah, well, you're kind of nice, too.

Look, I gotta go.

I gotta find that Puppet Master and like that... I gotta go.

You take it easy, though, OK?

Dear Ben. Dear, dear Ben.

I neutralised the last of the Puppet Master's neuro-kinetic clay.

He can never use it again to control innocent people.

Great. But what if he's out there maybe cooking up another batch?

As long as that little creep's around, Alicia could have a problem.

Alicia? Of course!

We've got to hurry!

- Where? - To Alicia's new apartment.

If the Puppet Master set clay aside for emergencies, he'll head there.

- Flame on! - That poor girl!

We've gotta save her from that evil geek.

Ben, is that you?

No, dear girl, it's I, your beloved stepfather.

You have something which belongs to me.

The most powerful puppet of them all.

I wish you could see it, Alicia.

It's a small figure of me.

Not as I am now, a hunted man, no.

It is I, as the true Puppet Master, ruler of all the world.

Now that I have tested my power and know that it works,

I can do anything I wish!

Once I have subjected the entire world to my puppet,

kings, presidents and armies will do my bidding.

My first official act will be

to tear down the United Nations, the White House, the Pentagon.

All power will reside only in me!

I will be supreme!

And as for that fantastic foursome who have defied me,

they shall be my slaves

and their humiliation will be my sweetest victory!

You're mad, sick!

Careful, you little fool! Give me that!

Let me have it! Give it to me!

I and my royal puppet are one!

No!

Stepfather!

It's alright, kid, I'm here.

You're safe now.

Ben, he went out the window!

I heard the glass breaking!

There's no sign of him outside.

It's as if he vanished from the face of the earth.

Perhaps it's better that way.

What happened, Reed? What made the Puppet Master fall?

Perhaps a power greater than ours.

That's the story of the Fantastic Four

and thank you so much for your generous contributions.

Remember, every dollar spent on a college education

brings more than you could ever count. Gary?

Dick and I thank you very much.

You four were great guests and... There's only three of you.

What a fantastic salesman!

Tell me about it, O rich one.

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