PRIME
TENPRIME
TEN
MEMBERSHIP: Ten unnamed Skrulls
PURPOSE: To obtain Reed Richards' matter/energy transmitter
AFFILIATIONS: Skrull Empire
ENEMIES: Captain Mar-Vell, Fantastic Four (Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mr. Fantastic, Thing)
BASE of OPERATIONS: the Skrull Empire;
formerly Manhattan, New York
FIRST APPEARANCE: Fantastic Four Annual#15 (1980)
HISTORY:
(Fantastic Four Annual#15 (fb) - BTS) - Seeking to gain the upper
hand against the Kree, a group of Skrull scientists began work on
a matter transmitter device. However, Reed Richards was
simultaneously working on a similar project, though designed
solely as an energy transmitter. The Skrull scientist
accidentally established a link between the two transmitters, and
saw that while Richards' device was more primitive in its stage
of development, it was actually more advanced in basic design.
The Skrulls notified their superiors, and ten prime Skrull
warriors were hand-picked to travel to Earth and to obtain the
transmitter at any cost.
(Fantastic Four Annual#15) - Taking the forms
of numerous New Yorkers, the Skrulls began their attempts to
infiltrate the Baxter Building. One took the form of mailman
Willie Lumpkin and delivered a package that incapacitated Sue,
Ben, and Johnny. That Skrull incapacitated the Baxter Building's
security system and then took the form of Sue Storm and got close
enough to Reed to pull a gun on him. After the Skrull explained
his mission, Reed fought back against the Skrull, until an energy
blast incapacitated it. The blast came from Captain Mar-Vell, who
proposed an alliance, until Reed saw another Captain Mar-Vell
battling the Skrull scientists via the transmitter's screen. The
first Mar-Vell exhorted Reed to use the transmitter to scramble
and destroy the other Mar-Vell, which led Reed to conclude that
the first one was the imposter. Reed brought the second Mar-Vell
to the Baxter Building, and he used his powers to neutralize the
Skrull and prove his identity via a mind-meld.
The remaining eight Prime Skrulls then arrived
and confronted Reed and Mar-Vell, but the rest of the FF--having
recovered much later, but traveled backward in time so that they
would be able to help--arrived and turned the tide. Reed sent the
Skrulls back to their asteroid, and destroyed his own transmitter
in the process.
COMMENTS: Created by Doug Moench, George Perez, Stone, D'Agostino, & Espo (Mike Esposito?).
The Matter transmitter so desperately sought in this story doesn't seem to amount to much more than a teleportation device, which seems to be common technology amongst races as advanced as the Skrulls. You'd think Reed's time machine would have been more of a target.
CLARIFICATIONS:
The Prime Ten should be distinguished from:
Appearances:
Fantastic Four Annual#15 (1980) - Doug Moench (writer), George Perez (pencils), Chic Stone, John D'Agostino & Mike Esposito (inks), Jim Salicrup (editor)
Last updated: 01/12/04.
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