With issue #7, the Fantastic Four is now on sale monthly.
It’s an excellent cover, and if you look at Thing’s face, it looks like Jack Kirby is beginning to go with the brick-like skin that he eventually morphed into.
As the story gets underway, we are introduced to Kurrgo, Master of Planet X. Not exactly the most inspired names, but hey, Stan was a busy guy.
The Planet X folks are doomed, and they want to take over Earth because it seems really swell down here.
Page 8: They release a Hostility Ray upon the earth, resulting in . . . well, uncontrolled hostility. Wives fight husbands, old guys fight young hipsters. It's divisive! Like cable news!
As a result, the general public now hates the FF. And only Kurrgo can provide relief from this planet-wide hatred.
Page 16: The FF go to Planet X, which is now plagued by natural disasters.
In a bonkers plan, Reed shrinks five billion inhabitants of Planet X down to microscopic size so that they all fit on one spaceship. (It seems like it would have made more sense to shrink down the asteroid instead of the people, no?)
The planet is indeed destroyed, along with the evil Kurrgo, but the people (tiny now!) escape disaster. Reed concludes, hey, the people will end up on another planet and adapt to being small, no biggie. The FF, now heroes, zoom home.
Kind of an odd story, but the FF is now a hit and is being published monthly.
Also on the stands:
Incredible Hulk #3
World’s Finest #128
Love Romances #101 (nice Jack Kirby cover!)
Our Army at War #122 with Sgt. Rock
