Fantastic Four #19
Fantastic Four » Fantastic Four #19 - Prisoners of the Pharoah! released by Marvel on October 1, 1963.
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5 (0) 4 (0) 3 (0) 2 (2) 1 (1) 1.8 starsAverage score of 3 user reviews
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Dreadful 1
There's so much wrong here, I don't even know where to begin. Reed has been studying Egyptology and sees some hieroglyphics in a museum that he takes to mean a pharaoh who was blind had a radioactive herb that made him see again. Thinking this can possibly cure Alicia, the FF travel to Doctor Doom's abandoned castle to use his still working time machine to travel to ancient Egypt. There they encounter Rama-Tut, a descendant of Doom's who traveled to the past in a time traveling sphinx to become...
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Prisoners of the Pharoah! 0
Stan goes mad with time travel, hieroglyphics, paradoxes and all sorts of science fiction this month as The Fantastic Four go back in time to try and recover an ancient vial presumed to have a radioactive cure for blindness. What they don't count on however is that they'd already been beaten to the chase by a mad scientist from the year 3000 who, sick of his utopian civilisation, opted to travel back in time to rule and conquer all for a bit of fun. Sure, it's a bit silly, but it's also a lot of...
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Dullness In The Desert 0
For a tale that concerns the Fantastic Four’s travels back to the age of the ancient egyptians to fight against a dictatorial pharaoh from from the future, this has a relatively easy to follow plot that flows surprisingly neatly. Our heroes have the motive and the pre-established means with which to travel back in time and do so in a manner that is not too contrived (for a 1963 Marvel comic at least).Story wise I take issue primarily with the lack of agency the Fantastic Four have in setti...
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