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Description
Walter Langkowski has been sent to a cosmic ray research station by the Ministry of Defense to help a team of scientists uncover some strange goings-on. After witnessing some strange energy readings the scientists are witness to a figure materializing in the ray adaptor dish outside the station – it’s the Thing of the Fantastic Four. As the unconscious figure is very heavy, Walt has no other choice but to reveal his Sasquatch identity to the crew, and carries him inside the station where a doctor examines him. However, before he can report his strange findings, the doctor is mysteriously killed, and his patient missing. Evaluating what may have happened, Walt sets out on his own to find whom killed the doctor, and stole the unconscious Thing. Various clues points to an individual with several different super-powers, and upon finding a set of foot-prints, Walt goes out into the snow to track the villain. Walt makes some startling discoveries, but as he rushes back to the station finds he is too late, as the station explodes. Walt breaks an arm due to a fall sustained in the blast, but he fares far better than the scientists. Only one of them survived, though she is wounded beyond help. Walt comforts her before she dies, and then calls out to the mystery opponent whose identity he has figured out by now. Indeed his guess is correct, it’s the Super-Skrull who answers to Walt’s challenge.