Fantastic Four Vol. 6 Premiere HC [2012] by Jonathan Hickman

      

      

FANTASTIC FOUR BY JONATHAN HICKMAN VOLUME 6 PREMIERE HARDCOVER

Jonathan Hickman closes out his epic run on the Fantastic Four before taking on the bi-weekly series the Avengers. This collection has a series of short one to two issue tales wrapping up the series before Matt Fraction takes over the title.

The Point One issue begins the origin story of Reed Richards from the Multiverse where the Nazis have won World War II. Reed assembles his crew and lobotomizes Viktor Von Doom before heading to space. Reed talks the Thing into killing Hitler which results with a fight between him and the Storm siblings. Reed later obtains the Infinity Gauntlet and destroys the Marvel heroes and Earth. Reed later finds the Council of Reeds.

The Fantastic Four remove a tumor inside an individual afterwards they travel to the African nation of Wakanda, home of the Black Panther, to seek answers to spiritual attacks. The Black Panther and Reed travel to Necropolism, the Wakandan City of the Dead while Storm and Sue take the Celestial Path. Black Panther becomes the King of the Dead.

The Wizard had made several clones and Bentley 23 is the last surviving clone taken in by the Future Foundation. The Wizard has escaped from prison thanks to A.I.M. who has purchased the island Barbuda which rests 1500 miles from the United States. The Fantastic Four is sent to deal with the reactors which have recently lit up on the island. Mr. Fantastic becomes the ambassador to Barbuda.

Following the battle with the Mad Celestials, Doom created a universe in his own image using two Infinity Gauntlets. Reed and Nathaniel Richards go into the space bridge to find Doom. They save him and destroy the space bridge. Nathaniel and Valeria leave Reed but Valeria goes and rebuilds the Council of Reeds.

This hardcover collects

Fantastic Four #606-611

Fantastic Four #605.1

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