Fantastic Four #5 (1962)

Fantastic Four #5, the famous comic by Marvel, is an absolute must-read for any comic book fan! Its most significant feature? The first appearance of the evil genius, Doctor Doom! The Fantastic Four has its first face-off with the diabolical villain in this ground-breaking issue.

Doctor Doom attempts to recruit the Fantastic Four to perform a task for him. He takes the Invisible Girl hostage as a bargaining chip, forcing Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, and the Thing to travel back in time via his time machine to steal Blackbeard's treasure. In the past, the trio gets drugged and shanghaied, and they find themselves aboard a pirate ship.

The pirate ship hits a typhoon and smashes to pieces before the Thing can make a final decision to stay in the past as captain of the ship. Reed, Johnny, and Ben make it to shore and recover the treasure chest, which Reed fills with old chains, claiming they never agreed to bring Doom the actual treasure, just the chest.

Doctor Doom, believing they have had enough time, recalls the trio. After a confrontation with a robot mimicking himself, he captures the trio once more, forgetting about the Invisible Woman as she frees her comrades. In the end, they all go their separate ways.

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