A heavily concealed man ascends into the sky to avoid traffic on a city street….
Iron Man, temporarily telepathic due to
Max Power’s drugs last issue, has gone to
Reed Richards for help and Reed is extracting Power’s own memories from him [Power was a scientist from a world of wizards who was exiled to Earth for his crimes, and discovering that many people envied superheroes, synthesized their DNA and sold it to them at raves, hoping to make a fortune to return to his home planet]. Reed and Tony hope to discover the whereabouts of
Ego the Living Planet, exiled to Earth in a concentrated form, hoping that the now comatose Power knew. They learn that Power had traced it to the home of a middle-aged couple in
Littleton, Nebraska, so Reed assembles the rest of the
Fantastic Four to head out there. The disguised man from page one follows….
In Littleton,
Shellhead and Reed, along with
Invisible Woman,
Human Torch, and
Thing come upon…an idyllic country fair. Thing shows off for some adoring kids,
Johnny “investigates” the teen girls at the soda shop,
Sue checks out an antique store—and there is no sign anything is wrong. And then Reed discovers that the town itself—people and buildings—is Ego as everything quickly turns against them. Iron Man recognizes the house from Max Power’s memories and heads there to find the older couple with the “baby.” As Ego engulfs the house, Iron Man takes the couple to safety but is knocked out in the getaway….
Shellhead awakens to learn from Reed that they have destroyed Ego there but the spore has migrated to another place. As they ponder their next move, Ben spies the disguised figure from page one and attacks. It turns out to be the
Silver Surfer….
Story continues in
MAXIMUM SECURITY #2.
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