MRL - Fantastic Four (1961) #27

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Fantastic Four (1963) #27 - Stan Lee/Jack Kirby

 

Finally, the end of the Namor/Sue/Reed love triangle (I hope).

Reed invented a machine that projects the user’s thoughts. (His projection is Sue in a bathing suit, btw.)

This leads to him getting teased by Johnny and Ben, because Sue must be tired of waiting for him to propose.

(Although, I thought that was because Sue couldn't decide between Reed and Namor?)

Anyway, Reed is ready and plans to go out and buy a ring that same afternoon.

Meanwhile, Namor is reflecting on why things went wrong and decides that he needs Sue by his side to make things right.

Like the fact that most of his people abandoned him when he put Sue’s well-being above them. Anyway, he makes his proclamation and the rest of his followers abandon him…

Alone again, Namor must have Sue. He makes his way to the Baxter Building, wearing a suit as disguise and a gun that counters the Fantastic Four's powers, he leaves Johnny and Ben unconscious and kidnaps Sue.

When Reed returns from ring shopping and learns what happened, he goes mad with anger. How dares Namor take the girls he loves?

He immediately starts searching for Namor's palace, planning to confront him alone.

Worried about him and Sue, Johnny and Ben need to find a way to accompany Reed. Johnny thinks of Doctor Strange and leaves him a sky message, asking for a meeting. Strange answers in his spiritual form and is able to find Namor's underwater palace, where Namor is trying to convince Sue to give him 24 hours to prove he can be a better partner than Reed.

Reed is determined to prove is the better one by defeating Namor in battle. Luckily for Namor, his guards return. Luckily for Reed, Ben and Johnny arrive, courtesy of Doctor Strange's magic.

More fighting ensues. While Johnny rescues Sue from the glass dome where Namor trapped her, Ben deals with the Atlanteans and Namor deals a fatal blow to Reed - that turns out to not be fatal at all.

Reed and Namor's fight continues, until Sue finally separates them with her invisible shield. She then declares Reed is the only one she loves and Namor doesn’t have a chance with her.

Before Namor can retaliate, Doctor Strange interferes and sends Namor’s palace away, while putting the Fantastic Four in their submarine.

They return home, but things between Sue and Reed are up in the air. He can’t trust she was telling the truth; she doesn’t know how to make him believe she was…