The Fantastic Four's iconic Baxter Building headquarters has just been blasted into space by Kristoff Vernard - a boy who's become the host for the memories of Doctor Doom following the villain's apparent death - and they've fallen out with one of the original members, the Thing. With the complications surrounding the Invisible Girl's pregnancy leading to her losing the child, the team have been through the wringer lately.
The last thing they need is for their mad scientist nemesis from the Microverse to return and sow fear, doubt and hate through New York. Looking for revenge over his last clash with the FF, the Psycho-Man is about to do just that. And it will leave the Invisible Girl forever changed...
- SECRET WARS - The FF first encounter the Beyonder
- TO ALL THINGS AN ENDING - Franklin's prophetic dreams return
- DOOMSDAY PLUS ONE - The fate of the Baxter Building
- Fantastic Four #280-281
- Secret Wars II #2 (also see SECRET WARS II)
- Fantastic Four #282 (also see SECRET WARS II)
- Fantastic Four #283-284
Fantastic Four #280
While assessing what to do next now that they've lost the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four notice the crowds around them rapidly devolving into violence. She-Hulk's attempt to calm the situation leads to her arrest. The Invisible Girl leads Alicia Masters away from the angry mob. The Human Torch and Mister Fantastic head to Avengers Mansion where the FF currently staying and analyse a pamphlet promoting hate. They discern it as being of alien origin just as young Franklin Richards emerges, shaken, telling them he just had a dream in which the Invisible Girl murdered Mister Fantastic. The wagon containing She-Hulk comes under attack, allowing her escape and she's soon faced with a new female foe calling herself Malice who easily defeats her and leaves her unconscious. The new Hate-Monger - the shape-shifter stirring up the discontent in Manhattan - emerges, admiring her work as she unmasks and reveals herself to be the Invisible Girl!
Fantastic Four #281
The Hate-Monger, Malice and their mysterious master lord over the chaos in Manhattan as the city burns. Malice is sent to kill the FF, interrupting Mister Fantastic's efforts to block the signal that's spreading the hate. Daredevil joins the rest of the team in confronting her. She unmasks, revealing her true identity. Mister Fantastic encourages her to truly hate him, burning out the Hate-Monger's effect on her. But now the Invisible Girl is mad and she's looking for revenge...
The Hate-Monger continues to fuel the Manhattan riots. A man materialises next to Mister Fantastic, asking him to explain the purpose of eating and he soon realises he's talking to the Beyonder in human form. She-Hulk tries to grab the Hate-Monger's master, the Psycho-Man, but he teleports away. The Invisible Woman grabs the Hate-Monger himself, only for him to be shot by an assailant from a nearby ally proclaiming '"justice is served". The Hate-Monger is reduced to a protoplasmic form, clearly having been little more than a humanoid construct. Mister Fantastic focuses on the Beyonder instead of pursuing the enemy who turned his wife into Malice, enraging her. The Beyonder realises he's not going to get the answers he seeks and teleports away. Later, the Heroes for Hire are pulled into the present by the Beyonder and stand beside Spider-Man, watching as he transforms their building into gold and teleports away once again.
Fantastic Four #282
Franklin Richards experiences another of his intensely real (and possibly prophetic) dreams in which he witnesses two alien spaceships battling it out over Manhattan, encounters their strange pilots and is rescued by a quartet of super-powered children. The Invisible Girl isn't her usual, understanding self and dismisses Franklin's dream as well as Mister Fantastic's concerns about the Beyonder. She had her soul turned inside out by the Psycho-Man and she wants revenge. Finally understanding the trauma she's been through, Mister Fantastic shrinks the FF down in the rebuilt Reducto-Craft and takes the team to the Microverse. They're immediately captured by a giant-sized Psycho-Man. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Beyonder has dinner with a gangster.
The oversized Psycho-Man sends nightmarish visions directly into the mind of the Invisible Girl, explaining his revenge plot against her to the imprisoned Mister Fantastic and Human Torch. Mister Fantastic uses his elasticity to escape and pops the head of the 'Psycho-Man', revealing it to be a robot piloted by the true Psycho-Man. Three of the FF are free, but She-Hulk is still working away in the mines of Nuvidia...
Fantastic Four #284
Fear keeps the She-Hulk from rebelling against her captors, but she strikes up an alliance with Queen Pearla who was deposed by the Psycho-Man and has been hiding in the mines for months. Dutta, one of the Psycho-Man's soldiers, stabs Pearla who encourages She-Hulk to remember who she is, causing her to break free of the fear that controlled her and knock Dutta out. Psycho-Man breaks free and instills doubt in Mister Fantastic. He's rescued by the Invisible Girl who defeats him and promises not to kill him, but will make him regret what he did to her. Queen Pearla reclaims her throne. After all of her recent experiences, the Invisible Girl decides it's time to rename herself as the Invisible Woman.
Web of Spider-Man #6 (1985)
Spider-Man rescues the survivors trapped in the Heroes For Hire's sunken golden building during SECRET WARS II.
Power Pack #16-17 (1985)
Franklin Richards' special dream leads to him teaming up with Power Pack against one of the deadliest alien Snarks; Franklin joins Power Pack, taking the codename Tattletale during THE KID WHO FELL TO EARTH.
Secret Wars II #3 (1985)
The Beyonder continues to learn the ways of the world from gangster Vinnie Corbo during SECRET WARS II.
Secret Wars II #5-6 (1985)
Mister Fantastic finally leads the Fantastic Four against the Beyonder; he then takes a different approach and actually tries speaking to him during SECRET WARS II.
Power Man and Iron Fist #121 (1986)
Power Man and 'Iron Fist' return to New York to discover the dream they had in which the Beyonder turned their building to gold was, in fact, real; Power Man and Iron Fist cnfront the Beyonder during SECRET WARS II.
Secret Wars II #9 (1986)
The Fantastic Four are present for the final confrontation with the Beyonder during SECRET WARS II.
Fantastic Four #289 (1986)
The partially-constructed Four Freedoms Plaza - the new headquarters of the Fantastic Four - is revealed by name.
Fantastic Four #293 (1986)
Four Freedoms Plaza is officially completed, with the FF moving out of Avengers Mansion.
Captain America #318-320 (1986)
The battlecry 'justice is served" is revealed to belong to the Scourge of the Underworld, an assassin who murders superhuman criminals during SCOURGE OF THE UNDERWORLD.
Silver Surfer #15-16 (1988)
The Invisible Woman comes into contact with the Soul Gem which tries to pull her Malice persona to the fore during I DIE LIKE THE STARS.
Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #10 (1990)
Despite the Invisible Woman's promise that the Psycho-Man would never return, Spider-Man encounters him in the Microverse during SPIDEY'S TOTALLY TINY ADVENTURE.
Impossible Man Summer Vacation Spectacular #2 (1991)
A flashback reveals that the Invisible Woman used the Psycho-Man's own Control-Box against him, overdosing him on fear and making him frightened of pretty much everything.Avengers #341-342 (1991)
A new Hate-Monger emerges with no connection to the previous one or the Psycho-Man.
Fantastic Four #369-370 (1992)
The Invisible Woman defeats her Infinity Doppelganger by drawing its evil into herself, causing her Malice persona to influence her during THE INFINITY WAR.
Fantastic Four #384 (1994)
Psi-Lord (the teenage Franklin Richards from the future) draws Malice out of the Invisible Woman and into himself, freeing her of Malice's influence during FOUR NO MORE!
Fantastic Four Unlimited #8 (1994)
The Psycho-Man enslaves Queen Pearla again as part of a plot to draw out the Fantastic Four and have his revenge on the Invisible Woman for using his Control-Box against him during NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE!
Fantastic Four #392 (1994)
Psi-Lord and the Invisible Woman force Malice into the Dark Raider's mind in order to bring about his defeat during NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE!
Fantastic Four #38-39 (2001)
Mister Fantastic and Noah Baxter construct a new Baxter Building which becomes the FF's headquarters.
See how this story fits in the wider Marvel Universe continuity with these reading orders:
Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus vol.2
Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne vol.6
Include...
Fantastic Four #280-284
Secret Wars II #2
Fantastic Four #280-284
Secret Wars II #2
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