History: 
PIER FOUR
Classification:
Terrestrial
series of warehouse space
Creator: Unrevealed; further modified by Mr. Fantastic
User/Possessors:
Caledonia
(Alysande Stuart of Earth-9809), The Fantastic Four (Human
Torch (Johnny Storm), Invisible Woman (Sue Richards), Mr. Fantastic
(Reed
Richards), Thing (Ben Grimm)), Gideon
Trust, Franklin Richards, H.E.R.B.I.E.,
Puppy
First Appearance: Fantastic Four III#2 (February, 1998)
Powers/Abilities/Functions:
Pier
Four existed as a series of
dockside warehouses in the New York City area. Altogether, it was
equipped to
house all sorts of things, including the various advanced technological
devices
designed by Mr. Fantastic. After the Fantastic Four took up residence
in the Pier, the Pier was upgraded and equipped with a hangar to house
the Fantastic Four's Pogo Plane and a security system that activated
whenever a newcomer entered Pier Four until proper identification was
provided. Pier Four was also equipped with high-tech defense systems,
including a rotating armored shell blaster, beam blasters capable of
cutting through Adamantium, neuro-neutralizer beam blasters, and
hydro-blasters capable of firing intense, pressurized water.
Pier
Four also housed a
sophisticated computer A.I. system that responded to the vocal commands
of the Fantastic Four members and their friends and family. The
artificial intelligence of the computer system could communicate
vocally through Pier Four's speaker systems and playback telephone
messages received at the Pier. It could trace the location of incoming
phone calls and download navigational coordinates of the location
directly into the Fantastic Four's Fantasticar vehicle. Upon
command, the computer system could disengage docking locks to allow
takeoff and landing of the Fantastic Four's vehicles and could remotely
generate invisible force fields over the entrances and exits of
specific rooms for security purposes.
The
Pier also had an
antique London police box located on the outside of the Pier Four
property that secretly housed an area of infinite storage space
warehouses. The warehouses could also be sectioned off as separate
rooms that existed as tesseracts in time and space, allowing them to be
infinitely expandable in time and space to accomodate any guests. Each
room in Pier Four was equipped with a panic button that projected the
Fantastic-Flare to signal the Fantastic Four members if needed and the
rooms had electronic doors capable of sealing off certain areas to
protect the experimental equipment stored within the Pier. The Pier
Four living room also contained a big screen
television. Various doors within the Pier acted as portals to
various alternate dimensions and realities if the Fantastic
Four
needed to traverse other dimensions.
The underground sub-basements of the Pier housed Reed Richards' laboratory. The lab was equipped with a sophisticated computer system that could take data input from Reed's Scanalyzer device and project it as a three-dimensional, life-like projection of the item or person scanned. The holographic projection capabilities could also project holograms over the windows of Reed's lab to prevent visual intrusion from anyone in the river surrounding the Pier and could be used in conjunction with programmed exercise programs to project three-dimensional combat simulations.
History:
(Fantastic
Four
III#2 (fb) – BTS)
– After their previous headquarters of Four Freedoms Plaza had been
given to
the Thunderbolts in the Fantastic Four’s absence, Mr. Fantastic moved
the
Fantastic Four into Manhattan’s Hudson River front warehouses located
on West
Side Highway, where Mr. Fantastic housed many of his inventions. The
warehouses
were soon rechristened Pier Four.
(Howard the Duck IV#4 (fb) - BTS) - When the Human Torch moved into
Pier Four, he brought with him a strange gem that he had earlier
acquired during the Beyonder's Secret Wars.
(Fantastic
Four III#2) – Inside
the warehouses, Mr. Fantastic tested his Psiotactile furniture by
having the
other members of the Fantastic Four try out the furniture. The Thing
and Human
Torch both tried to get on the couch, causing the couch to mutate while
attempting to convert itself into both of the heroes’ ideas of ideal
comfort. When
the couch grabbed up Franklin Richards while trying to convert itself
into a
carnival ride for him, the Invisible Woman attempted to rescue
Franklin,
causing more mutations due to her own ideas of comfort. Eventually, the
entire
psiotactile couch exploded into a goo-like mass, prompting the Thing to
storm
out of the room grumbling about having to stay in a warehouse. While
Thing and
the Human Torch met the Fantastic Four’s new mail carrier, Billie
Lumpkin, the
Invisible Woman spoke with Mr. Fantastic about his decision to move the
team
into his warehouses, frustrated that he had made the decision without
consulting her and unaware that they were being watched by the
invisible
Iconoclast. Later that night, Mr. Fantastic tucked Franklin into bed
and the Invisible
Woman arrived to view Mr. Fantastic watching his son fall asleep. Their
moment
was quickly interrupted when the Iconoclast, whom only the Invisible
Woman
could see and hear, attacked the Invisible Woman. Taking the fight
outside, the
Invisible Woman began battling the Iconoclast while Mr. Fantastic
ordered Pier
Four’s computer system to secure Franklin in his bedroom. Mr. Fantastic
then
joined the fray but proved unable to touch the Iconoclast. Franklin,
realizing
that his parents needed help, hit a button on his wall that caused the
Pier to
project the Fantastic Four’s “4” flare into the air, signaling the
Thing and
Human Torch to the danger. When the Thing and Human Torch also proved
unable to
harm the Iconoclast, Invisible Woman tricked the Iconoclast into
following her
off of Pier Four’s roof and out over the water on one of Invisible
Woman’s
invisible force bridges. She then removed the bridge from under the
Iconoclast,
causing him to fall into the river, shorting out his cloaking system
and
causing a large explosion over the water. Despite scanning the area,
the
Fantastic Four could find no trace of the Iconoclast following the
explosion.
(Fantastic
Four III#3) – At Pier
Four, the Thing, Human Torch and the Invisible Woman were rushing to
get
ready for
a New Year’s charity event they had promised to attend. Worried that
Mr.
Fantastic would miss the event if he did not leave his lab and get
ready, the
Invisible Woman allowed the Thing to pry open the electronic doors to
Mr.
Fantastic’s lab, where they found Mr. Fantastic seemingly performing an
autopsy
on Iconoclast.
Mr. Fantastic quickly explained that he was actually
performing a virtual autopsy on a three-dimensional, holographic copy
of the
Iconoclast. Having learned that the Iconoclast was a single-celled
organism,
Mr. Fantastic explained that he would know more after further genetic
tests.
When Invisible Woman commented that the research could take hours, Mr.
Fantastic assured her that his tuxedo was ready and waiting for the
charity
event and promised that he would join the other Fantastic Four after he
finished the genetic tests. Later, at 11:09 p.m., H.E.R.B.I.E.
entered
Mr. Fantastic’s lab and reminded him of the time, having been ordered
to bypass
Mr. Fantastic’s "not now" commands by the Invisible Woman. After Mr.
Fantastic
vocally deactivated H.E.R.B.I.E. using a specific sequence,
the computer system itself announced that a phone call had been
received by
Pier Four. Playing back a distress message to Mr. Fantastic from Empire
State
University’s Cathy Polombo, the computer system was ordered by Mr.
Fantastic to
trace the address then download navigation coordinates into the
Fantasticar.
Mr. Fantastic then had the computer disengage the locks on the
Fantasticar and
as he flew off, he ordered the computer to contact the rest of the
Fantastic
Four immediately.
(Fantastic
Four III#4) – Early in
the morning, the Thing awoke at Pier Four and went out onto the deck,
where he
enjoyed the morning air and the passing boats. He was soon hit with a
brick
wrapped in a newspaper, only to find that the Yancy Street Gang had
torn out
the sports section and wrote “Good morning, Brickhead!” on the front of
the
paper. The Thing's plot for revenge against the Yancy Street Gang was
interrupted
by Billie Lumpkin, who was delivering Pier Four’s mail. Their
conversation was
interrupted, in turn, by a large cosmic energy flash emanating from the
Fantastic Four’s former headquarters, Four Freedoms Plaza. The Thing
quickly said
his goodbyes to Billie, asked for kind thoughts, and boarded a Sky
Cycle
toward the Four Freedoms Plaza skyscraper.
(Fantastic
Four III#5) – At Pier
Four, Invisible Woman paid the Fantastic Four’s bills while the Human
Torch and
Franklin Richards relaxed nearby. Shortly thereafter, Invisible Woman
received
a phone call from Mr. Fantastic who, along with the Thing, was in
Stockholm,
Sweden. While on the phone, Invisible Woman began to warn the Human
Torch not
to play
with his fire powers inside the house as they were still trying to
calibrate
the sprinkler system, but then screamed when the Human Torch’s
powers activated the sprinklers.
(Fantastic Four III#6 (fb) – BTS) – After all of the furniture was hit by the sprinkler system, the Invisible Woman made the Human Torch clean the entirety of Pier Four, draping cloth over the water-damaged furniture until the Torch could clean it.
(Fantastic
Four
III#6) – The
Invisible Woman jogged around Pier Four on an invisible force bridge
and grew concerned about a white police Range Rover that had
been
seemingly
following her. The Human Torch met her as she came around the side of
the Pier
and announced that she needed to come inside, as there was something
she had to
see. Upon arriving inside, the Invisible Woman found the entire foyer
filled
with roses and Mr. Fantastic in a suit. Mr. Fantastic announced that he
had
missed the Invisible Woman during his trip to Sweden and decided that
it had
been too long since he had bought her flowers. He also announced that
he had
tickets to Yankee Stadium for himself and Franklin Richards, explaining
that
the Invisible Woman would be getting fitted for an evening gown so that
they
could go dancing at the Rainbow Room. After the Thing introduced
Invisible
Woman to scientist Alyssa Moy, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman began
talking
about their first date, prompting the Thing to show Alyssa around Pier
Four.
Taking Alyssa to the hanger, the Thing showed Alyssa the FF’s Pogo
Plane and
Alyssa asked the Thing if Mr. Fantastic seemed to be acting different
since
his
encounter with the enigmatic Crucible
in Sweden. The Thing replied that perhaps
Mr.
Fantastic was finally letting himself be human for a change. The
following
night, Mr. Fantastic changed into a suit to meet Invisible Woman for
dinner,
prompting the Thing, Human Torch and Alyssa Moy to compliment him on
his
fashion sense. As Mr. Fantastic left, Alyssa Moy mentioned a chess move
and
despite not having time, Mr. Fantastic indulged Alyssa by verbally
countering
her chess move with his own, placing the king in check. While Mr.
Fantastic and
Invisible Woman were out dancing, the Thing made dinner for Franklin
and
Alyssa. Alyssa could not get over how Mr. Fantastic had countered her
chess
move with a move that would trap his king in six moves, knowing that
prior to his
encounter with Crucible, Mr. Fantastic would have never made such a
mistake.
The egg that the Thing was preparing for dinner soon hatched, spawning
Hard-Boiled Henwy, a strange talking chick that doubled as a time bomb.
Within
seconds, Hard-Boiled Henwy had exploded, blowing out part of the
kitchen wall
at Pier Four. Gatecrasher’s Technet quickly made themselves known,
announcing
to Alyssa Moy and the Thing that they were there to apprehend Franklin
Richards.
After Ringtoss briefly captured the Thing in her rings, Gatecrasher
ordered
Ferro2 to track down the escaping Alyssa and Franklin while the rest of
Technet
dealt with the Thing.
(Fantastic
Four III#7 – BTS) –
When Invisible Woman and Mr. Fantastic phoned home after seeing a “4”
in the
windows of the World Trade Center towers, they found that the entirety
of Pier
Four was offline in both voice and data.
(Fantastic
Four III#9) – Early in
the morning, NPR-TV reporters Neal Conan and Manoli Wetherell arrived
at Pier
Four to film a documentary about a normal day in the life of the
Fantastic
Four. As soon as Human Torch led them into Pier Four, the security
systems went
off, prompting the Torch to ask the reporters for their IDs. The Thing
then led
Neal and Manoli further into Pier Four, stopping in the dining room to
invite
Alyssa Moy and Franklin to go into town with him for brunch. While they
were
out, the Human Torch gave an interview and a display of powers for Neal
and
Manoli. Thing and the others returned with bagels shortly thereafter,
prompting
the Human Torch to leave on a date as fashion designer Kay Cera arrived
as
requested by the Invisible Woman. Later, Neal and Manoli interviewed
the Thing
while Mr. Fantastic played ball with Franklin outside the Pier. Later
still,
after an adventure involving Spider-Man and the alternate reality
Alysande
Stuart, the Human Torch invited his new allies to Pier Four, where
Invisible
Woman was arguing with Mr. Fantastic about their son’s fears of
monsters.
Interrupting them, the Human Torch announced that he might have a
solution to
Franklin’s fears out back. When he opened the backdoor, a puppy was
tied to one
of the Pier’s boat ties.
(Uncanny
X-Men/Fantastic Four '98
Annual) – Mr. Fantastic held a press conference at Pier Four about the
importance of science to society's youth. He then announced that he was
proud to help contribute to NASA's space program with his Miniaturizer
invention. As Reed shook hands with a military officer, who announced
that on behalf of NASA and the US government, he was proud to accept
Reed's donation, Stark-Fujikawa scientist Dr.
Bradley Beynon was
escorted away from the press conference, exclaiming that Reed had spies
within Stark-Fujikawa and had stolen his miniaturizing device idea.
Days later, on a Friday evening, the Thing helped Mr. Fantastic move a
power core module before Reed and Sue left for a showing of
"La
Bludgeon." The
Thing then explained to the Human Torch that he had a poker game
planned for
the night and ordered the Human Torch to cancel on his date so he could
join in. Shortly thereafter, the Thing's poker buddy Wolverine and
Cannonball arrived at Pier Four for the poker
game. As the poker game progressed, Cannonball was winning most of the
pot but the game was interrupted by the arrival of a Psycho-Man robot,
whom the assembled heroes made swift work of. Almost immediately
following the defeat of the Psycho-Man robot, the Human Torch noticed
the Fantasti-Flare blocks away and both he and Cannonball flew to
investigate. The Thing promised to follow in the Fantasti-Car, only to
find that their battle with the Psycho-Man robot had demolished both
the Fantasti-Car and Wolverine's motorcycle. Wolverine and Thing
quickly hailed a cab, not realizing that the Psycho-Man robot had come
back online within Pier Four. Following the defeat of the Psycho-Man
robot, Bradley Beynon and the true Psycho-Man at the combined hands of
the Fantastic Four and X-Men, the two heroic teams returned to Pier
Four, where Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman discussed the ending of
"La Bludgeon" with Dr. Cecilia Reyes and Beast while Wolverine, Human
Torch, Thing and Cannonball attempted to finish their poker game.
(Thor
II#5) – The radio
in the Thing's Pier Four bedroom blared the Chucky Diamond radio show,
waking the Thing and prompting him to comment that he
was going to kill the Human Torch for setting his alarm to blare the
radio loudly.
(Avengers
III#10) – At Pier Four,
the Thing watched the Avengers Day parade on television, hosted by the
Stunt-Master,
actress Chili Storm and reporter Megan McLaren. Thing
continued
to watch until the Grim Reaper appeared in a bright flash of light.
Thing
immediately called for the other Fantastic Four members.
(Spectacular
Spider-Man
I#263) – Mr. Fantastic was working in his lab at Pier Four when
Spider-Man brought an unconscious May Parker to the Pier in
hopes
of having Mr. Fantastic verify if it was the real May Parker or a clone
or double used by Norman Osborn to fool Spider-Man. Mr. Fantastic ran
every test
he knew of on May, ultimately deciding that she was definitely not a
clone or any sort of artificial lifeform. He then explained that while
she was real, he could not verify for sure if it
was truly May Parker without a DNA sample of the original May
Parker. Spider-Man quickly left to find a sample as Mr. Fantastic tried
to tell him one more thing. Spider-Man exclaimed that it would have to
wait. A short time later, Spider-Man returned with a blood sample from
May Parker, taken during Peter Parker's high school days, and Mr.
Fantastic confirmed via the blood sample that it was the true, original
May Parker. He also explained to Spider-Man that May had a
device
implanted in her brain that would stop her heart if not removed soon.
Mr. Fantastic commented that he had contacted a top surgeon but would
need the approval of May's next of kin. Spider-Man announced that he
would contact the next of kin then left to confront the Green Goblin in
hopes of determining what exactly the implant was.
(Silver
Surfer III#146) -
When the cosmic Firelord rampaged through the small country of
Kakistia, Captain America contacted the Fantastic Four at Pier Four,
where Mr. Fantastic explained that the Fantastic Four would be glad to
lend a hand against Firelord. Mr. Fantastic also commented that, in the
time it would take both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four to get to
Kakistia, many lives could be lost. He also admitted that he could
think of only one person that could get there instantly and also stand
a chance against Firelord, to which Captain America replied that he
thought he knew who Mr. Fantastic was referring to.
(Fantastic
Four III#10) – Inside
his lab in Pier Four, Mr. Fantastic attempted to analyze a data packet
given to
him by the Omniversal guardian Roma. Despite the best efforts of Pier
Four’s
cybernetic systems, Mr. Fantastic was only able to analyze a small
fraction of
the packet’s information. After wrestling with many options, Mr.
Fantastic
decided to take his mind off of the situation by starting an exercise
program. Later
that evening, Mr. Fantastic tucked Franklin in for the night,
monologuing to
himself about how, once, science was his entire life and that now, it
was his
family. Early the next morning, the Thing returned to Pier Four
following a
night on the town with Alyssa Moy and found the Human Torch attempting
to find
a way to destroy the metal that composed the slave shackles of the
alternate
reality Alysande Stuart. Angry that he could not focus his fire enough
to burn
through the metal, the Human Torch flew out of the Pier. As the day
progressed,
Invisible Woman mentioned that someone needed to wake up the Human
Torch,
prompting the Thing to inform them of the Torch’s earlier leave. Mr.
Fantastic
deduced that the Torch had left to check on Alysande, whom all of the
Fantastic
Four knew about despite the Torch’s attempts to keep her a secret. Mr.
Fantastic then left for a meeting at Empire State University but upon
entering
his taxi outside the Pier, he was attacked by the super-powered Press
Gang.
(Fantastic
Four III#11 (fb) –
BTS) – Based on 911 reports of a superhuman battle near the Pier, Det.
Charlotte Jones arrived at the Pier to find the superhumans gone and
declared
it a crime scene, with the victim being Mr. Fantastic.
(Fantastic
Four III#11) – The
other members of the Fantastic Four met with Det. Jones outside Pier
Four and
used a Resonance Scanner to trace Mr. Fantastic’s path to a nearby pay
phone
booth. While the Thing attempted to have Det. Jones trace the last
phone call
made on the pay phone, Invisible Woman’s Resonance Scanner detected a
second
signature, that of the Genoshan Press Gang member Pipeline. Since
Genosha was
an outlaw nation, Det. Jones informed the Fantastic Four that the NYPD
had no
jurisdiction in Genosha. Later, Dr. Valerie Cooper visited Pier Four in
an
attempt to further explain the situation in Genosha, hinting that the
Fantastic
Four could venture into Genosha to find Mr. Fantastic but warning that
if they
did, they would no official government support.
(Fantastic
Four III#12) – Upon
the rescue of Mr. Fantastic and the defeat of his captor, Crucible, Dr.
Valerie
Cooper once again visited Pier Four to explain that the Fantastic
Four’s
actions in Genosha could possibly cause some unwanted repercussions to
America-Genoshan relations. She also warned the team could yet be
prosecuted
for their “crimes” against Genosha, warning that the US government
tended to
let Genosha be. After Cooper left, Mr. Fantastic decided to take the
Invisible
Woman and Franklin to a playoff game.
(Thor
II 1999 Annual) –
The Fantastic Four invited Thor to Pier Four, where they surprised him
with a party to thank him for recently saving the life of Franklin
Richards when Doctor Doom sought to use Franklin for his own ends. When
Franklin gave Thor a present, Thor thought back on the events that had
ultimately led to the party. When Thor began to tell the story of what
had happened following his rescue of Franklin, Mr. Fantastic asked what
had happened to Doctor Doom but Thor did not know of Doom's present
whereabouts. Franklin then exclaimed
that Thor had not yet opened the present Franklin had given him and
Thor rectified that immediately by opening the present to find that
Franklin had given him a hammer inscribed with the phrase "Whosoever
holdeths this hammer is a true and valued friend of Franklin Richards
and the Fantastic Four." Thor then exclaimed that Franklin had made
Thor's heart soar that day.
(Before
the Fantastic
Four: Reed
Richards#1) – In Pier Four, Franklin Richards was playing with a
baseball and accidentally bounced it away from himself. Chasing the
ball, Franklin retrieved it from his father Reed's closet, where
Franklin found a strange, ornate box. Inside, Franklin found a strange
ball and, thinking it was a Pokeball, Franklin prepared to throw it,
pretending to be releasing the Pokemon known as Pikachu. Reed soon
noticed Franklin and scolded Franklin for going through Reed's personal
belongings and treating them as if Franklin himself owned them. Reed
then tried to explain to Franklin that the stuff in the box were
personal items from just after Reed's time in the military. Franklin
then asked if Reed had any adventures back then and Reed began to tell
Franklin of a story set in the Himalayas.
(Before
the Fantastic
Four: Reed
Richards#2) – As it began snowing outside Pier Four, Reed continued to
tell the tale of his adventure in the Himalayas to Franklin, who asked
again who the professor in the story was and where they were heading.
Reed reminded Franklin that the professor was Professor Francesca
Fisher and they were on their way to Egypt. He explained to Franklin
about how the item they were seeking in Egypt was the Claw
of Bast,
whom Reed was informed had magical healing properties. When Franklin
asked why Reed didn't believe its magical properties, Reed explained
that, when he was younger, he was skeptical of such things but as he
aged, he had begun to realize how his past experiences with the Claw of
Bast had changed his skeptical nature. Franklin called into question
the truthfulness of Reed's story
and Reed slyly commented that perhaps it were best if he stopped the
story since Franklin didn't believe him but Franklin begged for Reed to
continue, which Reed did. As Reed continued, Franklin's excitement grew.
(Before
the Fantastic
Four: Reed
Richards#3) - Reed continued telling Franklin the story of his search
for the Claw of Bast and how he ended up fighting Victor von Doom prior
to gaining superhuman powers. When Reed told a part involving the
Egyptian Sphinx coming to life, Franklin finally admitted that he
thought Reed had been making the story up as he went along. Reed
attempted to prove to Franklin that the story was true but was
interrupted by the sudden appearance of Lao-Tse
the Mystic, a
"character" from Reed's story. Lao-Tse revealed that he had been
studying the mystic arts for years, waiting for the time in which he
could gain vengeance on Reed. Franklin quickly threw the ball he had
found in the box earlier, which hit Lao-Tse and froze him in suspended
animation. Reed then carried the frozen Lao-Tse into another room
within Pier Four and promised Franklin he would tell him about the time
Reed and Alyssa Moy encountered the Giant Rat of Sumatra. Franklin
replied that he couldn't wait.
(Amazing Spider-Man II#4 (fb)) - Having recently been away from
heroics, a returned Spider-Man decided to pay a visit to the Human
Torch at Pier Four and once there, Mr. Fantastic opted to run several
experiments on the wall-crawler to make sure he was indeed the actual
Spider-Man. Once Reed had determined it was the real Spider-Man, the
Fantastic Four welcomed Spider-Man back and a short time later,
Spider-Man relaxed with the Human Torch by watching wrestling on
television. Pier Four soon briefly lost power and when its auxillary
systems came back online, Mr. Fantastic explained that the entirety of
New York had experienced a blackout. He then commented that the systems
had experienced an anomalous magnetic pulse shortly before the blackout
and that he wanted to investigate further. Spider-Man then caught a
glimpse of the Sandman on the Fantastic Four's monitors and asked about
it, prompting the Thing to inform Spider-Man that he had occasionally
kept an eye on the Sandman ever since the Sandman had reformed.
(Superman/Fantastic
Four) – In
Pier Four, Franklin Richards was watching the “Superman” cartoon series
and
playing with his action figures when he overheard the Thing from
another room.
Running in to tell Thing about the latest episode of “Superman,”
Franklin found
the Thing holding up an hydraulic press that Mr. Fantastic was running
tests
on. Invisible Woman soon ushered Franklin out of the room but quickly
noticed that Pier Four’s
defense
systems were offline. Investigating, Invisible Woman was met with the
true
Superman, who had traveled to Earth-616 with the help of Access.
Invisible
Woman led Superman to the other Fantastic Four members, where Superman
informed
Mr. Fantastic that Galactus had been in Superman’s home universe.
Before much
more could be said, the Kryptonian crystal that Superman had brought
along with
him began glowing and soon, Pier Four’s security systems began
attacking all of
the heroes present. The hydraulic press immediately began pressing on
the Thing
and the Human Torch attempted to fuse the control board with his flames
but the
security system hit the Human Torch with a hydro-blaster, dousing his
flames.
Eventually, Superman punched the press, destroying it enough for the
Thing to
lift his way from the debris. Before he spout his catchphrase, the
Thing was
hit by a blast emanating from an alien ship just outside Pier Four. The
ship
then blasted Superman, causing him to disappear, and Mr. Fantastic
deduced that
the ship was one of Galactus’. Wondering how Galactus could instigate
the
corruption of Pier Four’s defense systems, Mr. Fantastic’s questions
were
answered by the appearance of the Cyborg Superman from Superman’s home
universe. Admitting that he wanted to work with Galactus, the Cyborg
Superman
blasted the Thing while the Human Torch went outside to attack
Galactus’ ship.
Finding Superman inside, the Human Torch’s attack was interrupted when
Galactus
began transforming Superman into his newest herald. The Cyborg Superman
quickly
halted his own attack, pleading with Galactus to take him instead, but
the
Invisible Woman erected an invisible force field to prevent the Cyborg
Superman
from entering Galactus’ ship. After being given the Power Cosmic by
Galactus,
Superman became the gold-skinned herald and, recognizing the sheer
power of a
Power Cosmic-infused Superman, Mr. Fantastic attempted to hold Superman
in
place but Superman quickly teleported away with Mr. Fantastic in tow.
Invisible
Woman quickly captured Cyborg Superman in an invisible force bubble and
began
questioning him. After learning that Cyborg Superman could track the
Kryptonian
crystal that Superman carried, Invisible Woman agreed to release the
Cyborg
Superman as long as he agreed to follow her orders and help them find
Mr.
Fantastic. Cyborg Superman agreed to the terms as long as he was
allowed access
to Galactus. Later, in order to find Superman and Mr. Fantastic,
Invisible
Woman allowed the Cyborg Superman to modify the Fantastic Four’s Pogo
Plane to
allow for their travel into space. Once the modifications were
complete,
Invisible Woman left Franklin with Caledonia at Pier Four and the FF
and Cyborg
Superman rocketed into space. After Superman was restored to normal and
the
Cyborg Superman reduced to a tiny shard of perfect metal by Galactus,
the
Fantastic Four and Superman returned to Pier Four, where Superman gave
Franklin
the gift of his cape then said his goodbyes before returning to his
home
universe.
(Fantastic Four III#13) – Billie Lumpkin arrived at Pier Four to deliver the mail and was surprised to see Caledonia standing atop the Pier. When she knocked on the door, the Thing answered, commented that he didn’t sleep well the night before and explained that Caledonia was a friend of the Human Torch’s. On the roof of Pier Four, the Human Torch brought a mug of cocoa to Caledonia and asked her why she had been keeping guard all morning. The Torch was then told by Caledonia that she had been guarding because of a nightmare she had, surprisingly the Torch, as he and the other Fantastic Four members had had the same dream involving an attack by the Kree Ronan the Accuser. Later that morning, the Fantastic Four and Caledonia spoke about their shared dream, with Mr. Fantastic commenting how, in the dream, Ronan was battling the FF of years past. Mr. Fantastic also mentioned that, in the time since their last battle with Ronan, the Fantastic Four’s tactics had changed but he also warned that Ronan’s might have changed as well. When Caledonia asked who Ronan was, the Human Torch explained to her Ronan’s history. After Caledonia and Human Torch later participated in a faux duel to test their abilities near Stuyvesant School, executive vice principal Mr. Bermudez phoned Mr. Fantastic at Pier Four to express his anger at the distraction caused by Caledonia and the Torch’s duel. Once the rest of the Fantastic Four had chewed the Torch out, the Invisible Woman pointed out that the Fantastic Four seemed to be denied their usual access to government, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Avengers databases. To prove her point to the others, Invisible Woman phoned Stark Solutions, only to be brushed off by Tony Stark’s secretary. The Thing attempted to contact the Avengers to both speak with Carol Danvers and obtain their files on the Kree but was told by Firestar that she was not allowed to give out such information. The Thing was then met with the Vision, who explained that the government had forced the Avengers to forbid interaction with the Fantastic Four. Vision then terminated the video call, prompting the Human Torch to inform the others that Cape Canaveral had been abuzz with shuttle launches as of late. Mr. Fantastic also announced that he was detecting an unique energy signature emanating from the FF’s former headquarters of Four Freedoms Plaza, one that matched the signatures of a Kree Sentry robot the team had battled in the past. Mr. Fantastic then explained that it appeared Four Freedoms Plaza was being used a landing platform for the Kree.
(Fantastic Four III#20) - While the Fantastic Four were away, Alysande Stuart, Alyssa Moy, Franklin Richards and Puppy watched television at Pier Four before Earth-99315's Marvel Girl emerged from the bathrooms unaware she had been transported to Earth-616. Before proper explanations could be made, the extradimensional Bounty attacked, claiming she had a retrieval warrant for Alysande. A fight soon ensued that was ended when the amazonian Bacchae appeared and knocked everyone out with a grenade.
(Black Panther III#6) - The Thing and Franklin Richards watched from Pier Four via television as New York townspeople gathered together to catch a glimpse of the Black Panther, whom they saw as a hero of the people.
(Fantastic Four III#22) - From his lab in Pier Four, Mr.
Fantastic
viewed holographic iterations of the facts he knew of Earth-99315 from
his earlier viewing of it. Invisible Woman caught him doing so and the
two began to argue about the true origins of Earth-99315's Marvel Girl,
unaware that Marvel Girl was eavesdropping on their conversation.
Saddened by the negative remarks exclaimed by the Invisible Woman, who
was her mother on Earth-99315, Marvel Girl fled through one of Pier
Four's interdimensional doorways.
(Fantastic Four III#23 (fb)) - Lawyers Matt Murdock and Jeryn Hogarth visited Pier Four, where they spoke with Invisible Woman about the recent situation in which the Thing and She-Hulk were infected by mind-altering nanites. While they spoke with Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic and Alysande Stuart investigated Marvel Girl's bedroom, which had been entirely transported from Earth-99315 when Marvel Girl had arrived on Earth-616. In Reed's lab, Marvel Girl researched possible cures to the nanites while Franklin witnessed Namorita's costumes change as she swam by the underground lab. Mr. Fantastic witnessed the brief reality warp of Namorita as well as he returned from the investigation of Marvel Girl's bedroom.
(Galactus the Devourer#1) - At Pier Four, Mr. Fantastic had the Thing hold up a hovercraft while the Human Torch did a spot weld on it. The Invisible Woman interrupted their work to let them know that the Fantastic Four had received an invitation in the mail to Alicia Masters' newest sculpture exhibit: The Heroes of the Millennium. Human Torch replied that they weren't going but the Thing explained that just because he and Alicia had broken up did not mean that they weren't still friends.
(Galactus the Devourer#2) - Silver Surfer and the Invisible Woman took the alien's wrecked ship back to Pier Four for Mr. Fantastic to analyze. Upon analyzing the ship, Mr. Fantastic commented that the alien's earlier comments of "He is coming" might soon come to pass, as Reed was getting anomalous readings from his sub-space monitor. Later, after the Silver Surfer and newly superpowered Alicia Masters battled Galactus' herald, Red Shift, Alicia left Silver Surfer behind and flew to Pier Four, where she explained the recent battle to the Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four contacted other heroes and began keeping an eye out for Galactus.
(Galactus the Devourer#3) - The Avengers arrived at Pier Four, where Firestar asked Mr. Fantastic about once being put on trial for saving Galactus from death. Mr. Fantastic explained that while he no longer could recall the true nature of Galactus in the universe, as told by Eternity himself, he was absolved of his crimes by the alien jury. The Thing commented on a plan thanks to the Silver Surfer and Alicia Masters. Mr. Fantastic then explained to the gathered heroes their plan of using Reed's modified Photon-Drill to bore through Galactus' armor and cause him to hemorrhage energy, thereby weakening him enough for the heroes to defeat.
(Galactus the Devourer#4) - After the Silver Surfer agreed to serve as Galactus' herald once more, prompting Galactus to leave Earth, the Fantastic Four and Alicia Masters returned to Pier Four, where Mr. Fantastic tested Alicia's Cy-Phyrr armor. Alicia commented that with the armor's goggles, she could track Galactus' energy trail and wondered if she could follow it. Mr. Fantastic deduced that the armor responded to her mental commands, so she only needed to think it to do it, but warned that the armor's energy reserves would take time to recharge for a space warp. When Alicia asked how long, the Thing explained his promise to the Silver Surfer to keep Alicia safe and warned that if he had to handcuff Alicia to him day and night to keep her safe, he would do it. A short time later, at Pier Four, Alicia commented that she couldn't let Earth remain safe from Galactus at the expense of other worlds. She then blasted the Thing and escaped into space despite the Thing's best efforts to follow her.
(Galactus the Devourer#5) - Alicia returned to Pier Four on Earth, interrupting a get-together between the Fantastic Four and Avengers. Alicia explained to the Thing that the Silver Surfer had spared Earth of Galactus' hunger but, after witnessing the destruction of another world, she had become determined to stop Galactus. The Thing replied that Mr. Fantastic had come up with several devices that could possibly stop Galactus and that the two super teams had gathered together for what could be their final feast. The two teams and Alicia then discussed Mr. Fantastic's devices and Mr. Fantastic admitted that since he had once saved Galactus, there were many who would not trust him to aid them against Galactus.
(Domination Factor: Fantastic Four#1.1) - As the Fantastic Four returned to Pier Four following an air fight to protect Air Force One, they found a gigantic wooden figure standing in the waters outside Pier Four. Deducing the moving figure to be alive, Mr. Fantastic attempted to communicate with it, only to be blasted by its eye beams. After the figure swatted away the Thing, Mr. Fantastic sent a message to his lab in Pier Four to cycle the Spectral Analyzer into Pier Four's access port. Mr. Fantastic then briefly entered his lab to retrieve the Spectral Analyzer, warning the playing Marvel Girl and Franklin to remain inside Pier Four, as they were safer inside, unaware that Marvel Girl and Franklin were not moving. Soon learning that the figure was emitting a chronal force that froze time around it, the Fantastic Four were visited by Doctor Strange's astral form, who announced that in order to stop the chronal force, the Fantastic Four would need to travel through time to retrieve pieces of a golden apple to prevent its power from falling into corrupt hands. Strange then cast a spell that sent the Fantastic Four's consciousnesses into their past selves at various points in time.
(Domination Factor: Fantastic Four#3.5) - Once the Asgardian Golden Apple artifact had been half assembled by the Fantastic Four in various time periods, Doctor Strange returned the Fantastic Four to Pier Four, where the gigantic wooden figure and their physical bodies remained. Tired of being led around by Doctor Strange, the Thing angrily tried to enter his body and the Human Torch followed suit. Hitting a temporal barrier when they tried to enter their bodies, the Fantastic Four's consciousnesses were flung away from their bodies on Pier Four into an alternate reality.
(Domination Factor: Avengers#4.8 - BTS) - The Fantastic Four's consciousnesses were restored to their proper, Earth-616 bodies at Pier Four.
(Fantastic Four 1999 Annual) - Outside Pier Four, the Fantastic Four and Alyssa Moy test drove a flying vehicle designed by Moy while Marvel Girl, Franklin, Puppy and Alysande Stuart watched from the Pier. When a mystic energy wave destroyed the vehicle and rendered Alyssa Moy unconscious, the Fantastic Four took Alyssa to Reed's lab where Moy's injuries were confirmed to be of a mystical nature. Determined to save her, Reed Richards attempted to contact numerous mystics without much luck until Doctor Strange's servant Wong suggested they contact Margali Szardos. The Fantastic Four then left to request the aid of Margali and later returned, following a battle against the demon Blackheart, to the Pier, where the Fantastic Four said their goodbyes to their allies Daimon Hellstrom and the Shadow-Hunters.
(X-Man#59 (fb) - BTS) - Earth-295 native X-Man visited Pier Four, seeking the Fantastic Four's help in finding a method to track other Earth-295 denizens that had originally arrived on Earth-616 along with X-Man himself. Following recent events in his own life, X-Man had decided to become more pro-active and had become inspired by the Fantastic Four's "charge forward" attitude. Knowing that charging forward also needed prior planning, Mr. Fantastic decided to stage a test of X-Man's powers on the Pier Four grounds.
(X-Man#59) - Shortly after, X-Man tested his powers by battling Mr. Fantastic, the Thing and the Human Torch all at once on the Pier Four property. Pier Four's security beam-blasters targetted X-Man and hit him as the Thing pinned X-Man's arms in a bear hug, allowing the Human Torch to also blast X-Man with a flame blast. X-Man soon succeeded in freeing himself from the Thing's blast with a concentrated telekinetic punch. The Human Torch then pressed the attack on X-Man, who flew away until the Thing catapulted into the air, where X-Man telepathically tricked the Thing into thinking the Torch was X-Man. After punching the Torch, whom he thought was X-Man, the Thing angrily attacked "X-Man" again, but was once again telepathically tricked by X-Man, who made the Thing see Mr. Fantastic as X-Man. X-Man continued telepathically manipulating the Thing until Mr. Fantastic announced that he had seen enough and had the Invisible Woman squeeze X-Man with an invisible force field until he released everyone from his telepathic hold. With the power test ended, Mr. Fantastic returned to his Pier Four lab to go over the results of the power tests run by his remote-sensors. Mr. Fantastic then informed that he had enough data to start defining the frequency-parameters of those from Earth-295. As Reed began verbally announcing his findings and proposed ways of tracking Earth-295 natives, X-Man took that at his cue to leave Reed to his findings. X-Man then visited Pier Four's showers, where the Thing announced he was done with his shower, unable to deal with both the Human Torch and X-Man's "caterwaulin'." The Human Torch reminded the Thing to be nice then he and X-Man discussed their lives before the Thing snuck back in and lowered their shower temperatures to 20 degrees. Unaware that a creature had emerged from Reed's lab and was accessing information on X-Man, X-Man continued enjoying his time at Pier Four by eating with Franklin Richards in Pier Four's dining room. Eventually, X-Man sensed something was wrong and asked Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman, who had been watching X-Man's interactions with Franklin from afar, to join him on Pier Four's rooftop. X-Man then said quick goodbyes to Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and Franklin and flew off, thinking to himself what his senses could have been telling him. As X-Man flew off, Invisible Woman asked Mr. Fantastic if there was anything he could have done for X-Man and Mr. Fantastic replied that there was not.
(Fantastic Four III#24) - Puppy instictively sensed an approaching chaos storm and warned the Fantastic Four and their allies at Pier Four. The heroes gathered on the roof of Pier Four, where they witnessed several reality warps in the span of a few seconds. Shortly after, Billie Lumpkin arrived at Pier Four to deliver the mail, unaware that anything had just occurred despite the mail being from the various realities just glimpsed. Mr. Fantastic immediately set about trying to prevent the impending chaos storm while the other heroes had breakfast. As the day progressed, Marvel Girl played soccer with Franklin and Caledonia watched as a stir-crazy Human Torch flew off to seek distraction. Invisible Woman began preparing a protective shuttle for Franklin in the event that he would need to be rocketed away from the chaos storm and later, she prepared a dinner for everyone within Pier Four. After the dinner, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman put Franklin to bed. The following morning, the chaos storm hit Pier Four. After sending Franklin, Puppy and Caledonia away in a protective rocket, the Fantastic Four went onto the roof of Pier Four, where they witnessed a giant tsunami flooding New York.
(Hulk II#9) - At Pier Four, the Thing monologued to a bust of Reed Richards that despite his mixing up with Galactus from time to time, he still seemed to get defeated by the Hulk every time they tussled. He then mentioned that he was being sent out against the then-savage Hulk once more. Following the Thing's fight with the near-mindless Hulk, he once again monologued to the Reed statue that perhaps the death of Betty Banner had pushed the Hulk over the edge. The Thing then thanked
(Fantastic Four III#25) - Watching as Doctor Doom's ship flew overhead through the tsunami, the Fantastic Four were soon swept from the Pier Four roof and into the New York streets.
(Fantastic Four III#27) - When news that the Invisible Woman was going to marry Doctor Doom (actually Reed Richards trapped within Doom's armor), the media surrounded Pier Four, hoping to get an exclusive story. After using holographic technology to keep the paparazzi from seeing him, Reed Richards used a makeshift command module chair in an attempt to interface with the command network of Doctor Doom's armor and escape it. After failing, Reed was comforted by the Invisible Woman. Later, the wedding party gathered together at Pier Four to make the marriage official and crown the Invisible Woman as Baroness von Doom.
(Fantastic Four III#28) - From his lab in Pier Four, Reed
Richards
(still in Doctor Doom's armor) ran virtual reality scenarios in which
Doom took over the entire world, hoping to find a way to defeat the
true Doom.
(Fantastic Four III#29) - Billie Lumpkin arrived at Pier Four to deliver the mail and was shocked to see Doctor Doom (still Reed Richards trapped in Doom's armor) answer the door. After retrieving the mail from Billie, Reed visited the Thing in Pier Four's hangar and asked him to join Reed for breakfast. After the Thing declined, Reed walked past Johnny Storm, who was arriving from a late date, and sat down for breakfast, where the Invisible Woman stole his cup of coffee. Reed reacted as Doctor Doom would, prompting the Invisible Woman to argue back and generate a force field to prevent Reed from embracing her. Their argument was interrupted when the Human Torch came between them to get toast. The Torch later signaled the Fantasti-Flare to summon the other Fantastic Four members for a mission. Upon hearing that the Torch had received a distress call from Wyatt Wingfoot, Invisible Woman asked the other members to suit up before Reed sternly reminded her who was the team leader, acting more like Doctor Doom than ever.
(Fantastic Four 2000 Annual) - After having defeated the true Doctor Doom in Latveria and restored Reed Richards to his proper form, the Fantastic Four returned home to New York and landed in the river near Pier Four. Upon their emergence from their Pogo-Plane, the Fantastic Four were bombarded by reporters seeking to learn why the Invisible Woman was with Reed when they had all thought she had recently married Doctor Doom. The team was soon attacked by one of Doctor Doom's generals, Technarx, and Invisible Woman quickly got Reed inside Pier Four while Thing and Human Torch battled Technarx, who managed to escape. Shortly thereafter, while Mr. Fantastic rested, the Invisible Woman contacted Marvel Girl and Franklin in Haven to inform them about Reed's return. Almost immediately following the end of the Invisible Woman's contact with Haven, Doctor Doom's other generals attacked Pier Four before offering the Fantastic Four a chance to join them in attacking Doctor Doom on Planet Doom. When they refused, Doctor Doom's generals announced that they would destroy the Fantastic Four before departing Pier Four. When Thing, Human Torch and Invisible Woman left Pier Four to track Doctor Doom's generals, Dorma returned to Pier Four and ordered the weakened Reed Richards to build the generals a transporter so the generals could return to Planet Doom. Agreeing to aid the generals in exchange for the now-captive other Fantastic Four members' freedom, Reed succeeded in designing a transporter and successfully tricked the generals into freeing the other FF members before entering the portal created by Reed's device. Dorma refused to enter the portal but angrily departed once her allies had stepped through the portals. Once the generals had departed and the Fantastic Four had been freed, Reed explained to his teammates that the portals took each of Doctor Doom's generals into their own prisons, which were then transported to Planet Doom.
(Fantastic Four III#33) - On a summer day in New York City, Pier Four was left virtually empty when both Reed and Sue Richards went to a matinee, Johnny Storm visited the park, and the Thing participated in a celebrity softball game for a children's hospital. While it was empty, an unseen intruder broke into Pier Four and placed a spider-like bomb on one of the Fantastic Four's interstellar transceivers. The intruder then exited Pier Four before the bomb exploded, decimating the laboratory wing of Pier Four.
(Fantastic Four III#33 - BTS) - The Fantastic Four spent 24 hours combing through the rubble of the laboratory wing in hopes of finding clues to the location of Pier Four's saboteur.
(Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad) - Caledonia, Franklin Richards, Marvel Girl and Puppy returned to Pier Four from Haven to visit with their Fantastic Four family, none aware of an ancient ship sailing past the Pier. The group shared a pizza dinner before everyone began winding down, still unaware of the ancient ship drawing ever closer. As the ship sailed past the Pier, the fog that surrounded it penetrated the Pier itself, generating elemental beings that attacked the Fantastic Four members while a giant hydra creature attacked Marvel Girl, Puppy, Caledonia and Franklin. The mystical Jihad soon appeared, announcing that the Fantastic Four would bow to him before transporting the heroes aboard an ancient wooden ship. After teaming with the legendary Sinbad the Sailor against Jihad, the Fantastic Four and their allies were returned to Pier Four via their ship.
(Thunderbolts
I#43) - Moonstone, seeking
the origins of
her powers, visited Pier Four, spying on the
Fantastic Four until Mr. Fantastic learned of her presence and
confronted her, asking why she had broken into his lab.
(Thunderbolts
I#44) - Rather than explain herself, Moonstone
attempted to battle Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, who could
not touch her due to Moonstone's intangibility powers. Mr. Fantastic
offered to help Moonstone but Moonstone accessed the Fantastic Four's
computer banks before Invisible Woman tried to corral Moonstone in an
invisible force field. Escaping the field and exclaimed an ancient Kree
dialect, Moonstone fled, leaving Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman to
discern her motives. Mr. Fantastic deduced that Moonstone's presence in
Pier Four had nothing to do with Moonstone's Thunderbolts team and more
to do about the origins of Moonstone's powers, given that Mr. Fantastic
was able to translate Moonstone's Kree dialect into "I have to look
within the Lifestones." (Iron
Fist/Wolverine#2) - Having been studying the mysterious
wall
that had surrounded Tokyo, the Fantastic Four contacted Avengers
Mansion in hopes that Vision or Hank Pym might have some insights about
the wall to share with Mr. Fantastic. (Fantastic
Four III#39 (fb) - BTS) - The Gideon Trust, who
planned
to mine the riches of the Negative Zone, took an interest in Pier Four
due to the Negative Zone portal contained within.
(Fantastic
Four III#36) - While the wrecked Pier Four was held
aloft
by a water elemental, heroes such as Spider-Man and Daredevil aided in
the rescue efforts of those outside of the wreckage. Inside the wrecked
Pier Four, Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman battled Diablo, who
had captured the Human Torch and Thing. After the Fantastic Four had
all been defeated, Diablo traveled with them back through the mystic
mirror to his Sanctum Sanctorum. Without Diablo's elemental to hold the
wrecked Pier Four aloft, the remnants of the Pier collapsed. After the
Fantastic Four had witnessed Diablo's eventual defeat, they rushed back
through the mirror, arriving in the flaming wreckage of Pier Four. A
woman representing the Gideon Trust soon arrived and demanded to know
what the Fantastic Four had done to their property but Mr. Fantastic
reminded her that they still owned the property and the patent on the
inventions inside, and that their insurance would cover damages. The
Fantastic Four then left the scene as Lt. Stone of the NYPD's Code:
Blue picked up a shard of the mystic mirror, in which he saw a rose. (Fantastic
Four III#37) - Damage Control was hired to clean up
the
wreckage that was Pier Four. The organization began their cleanup as
the Thing spoke with Damage Control employee, Lenny. Thing eventually
suggested that Lenny get back to work before the Gideon Trust returned
to make sure Lenny was working. Just then, one of Damage Control's
cranes accidentally dropped some debris, prompting the Thing to jump
into action, hitting the debris away with a lamppost. Damage Control's
manager, Kathleen O'Meara then chewed the Thing out, claiming that she
had complete control of the debris that was dropped and reminding the
Thing that the Pier Four site was not a playground. (Sentry
I#2) - A confused Bob Reynolds, his memories of being
the
heroic Sentry jumbled within his own mind, donned a cape and stood atop
one of the cranes at the Pier Four cleanup site. Bob posed as if he
were flying, thinking to himself of the lingering feeling that he was
once someone important. Mr. Fantastic soon arrived and asked Bob who he
was but Bob replied that it didn't matter, as everyone seemed to be
conditioned to forget Bob's actions as the Sentry had ever existed. Mr.
Fantastic commented that Bob was crazy and asked how Bob managed to
both get past the Pier Four site's security and to the top of a crane,
but Bob instead asked Mr. Fantastic to try to remember one thing, a
wedding, hoping that if Mr. Fantastic could remember the wedding, he
might be able to recall his memories of the Sentry and aid Bob against
a looming threat. When Mr. Fantastic asked if Bob had somehow hacked
into the Pier Four cleanup site's security, Bob simply said the word
"unicorn," which caused Mr. Fantastic to remember that he had been
forced to
forget something. Mr. Fantastic then noticed that Bob had left. (Fantastic
Four III#38 - BTS) - The Gideon Trust continued to
own
the rubble of Pier Four and the patents to all of Reed Richards'
inventions contained within. (Fantastic
Four III#39 - BTS) - The Gideon Trust continued
with
their plan to mine the Negative Zone, prompting a military colonel
within their ranks to comment that the Trust's plan would have been
easier if they had acquired the Negative Zone portal prior to Pier
Four's destruction. He then grumbled about how the Gideon Trust were
now left with nothing but wreckage. (Fantastic
Four III#43 (fb) - BTS) - Using plans and patents
left in
the Pier Four wreckage, the Gideon Trust constructed a small army of
H.E.R.B.I.E. robots to act as pest control, as well as a facsimile of
the Mad Thinker's Awesome Android to act as security in their Gideon
Tower headquarters. (Howard the Duck IV#4
(fb) - BTS) - Following Pier Four's destruction, the Human Torch lost
track of the strange gem he had acquired during the Secret Wars and
assumed it was lost amongst Pier Four's rubble. Eventually, the lot
once belonging to Pier Four was purchased and a series of condominiums
called Bohemian Valhalla were constructed over the rubble. (Howard the Duck IV#5 -
BTS) - Many of New York's heroes were immediately drawn to the battle
against Talos, with Invisible Woman holding up the trashed Bohemian
Valhalla building as Howard the Duck and Tara took cover. Eventually,
Howard managed to steal the Abundant Glove from Talos and end the
fight. The assembled heroes helped clean up the rubble from the damaged
Bohemian Valhalla building as Howard and Tara departed the scene. Comments:
Created by Scott Lobdell, Alan Davis and Mark Farmer. Pier Four was not actually seen in
Domination Factor:
Avengers#4.8, but presumably, when the FF's consciousnesses returned to
their bodies, their bodies were still waiting at Pier Four. Hence, the
BTS appearance. Profile
by Proto-Man. CLARIFICATIONS: 
(Fantastic Four
III#35) - After reading Johnny Storm's dreams of
stardom in a magazine, the Thing made fun of the Torch at Pier Four,
prompting a fight over the magazine that was interrupted when Billie
Lumpkin delivered a large mirror as a mail package. When the Human
Torch opened the mirror and touched it, hands grabbed him and several
small simulacra attacked both the Torch and Thing. The hands eventually
came further through the mirror, revealing their owner, Diablo. While
Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman met with their lawyers and those
of the
Gideon Trust, to whom they sold Pier Four and the inventions contained
within, Diablo stepped completely through the mirror and attacked the
Thing and
Torch himself, releasing a large stone golem to battle the Thing and
catching the Human Torch in a whirlwind. Mr. Fantastic and the
Invisible Woman shortly thereafter arrived back at Pier Four to find it
completely within a gigantic water elemental. In order to enter Pier
Four, the Invisible Woman generated an invisible force barrier and
created a path through the water elemental. Shortly thereafter, Pier
Four seemingly exploded.
(Howard
the Duck IV#4 - BTS) - When Howard the Duck sought out Doctor Strange
to aid against the Abundant Glove-wielding Talos the Untamed, Doctor
Strange tapped into the mystic ether and sensed cosmic energy near the
Hudson River. When Strange exclaimed that he sensed a man on fire,
Howard the Duck immediately realized that Strange's senses must be
leading them to Pier Four, the Fantastic Four's one-time headquarters,
and the man on fire must be the Human Torch. Commending Howard for his
deduction work, Dr. Strange asked Wong to contact the Human Torch and
have him meet Dr. Strange and Howard near Pier Four. Arriving at the
Hudson River piers early, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange and Howard's
ally Tara met the Human Torch and Strange quickly asked the Torch if,
during his time living in Pier Four, if he owned a strange gem, which
Strange predicted was a missing gem for the Abundant Glove. Human Torch
uncaringly explained that he did once have a gem and that he had lost
track of it during Pier Four's destruction. After being berated for his
irresponsibility in not taking care of a potentially world-destroying
gem, Human Torch led Dr. Strange, Howard and Tara to the former
location of Pier Four, which had since been replaced by the Bohemian
Valhalla condominiums, set to open the following fall. Using his Eye of
Agamotto, Dr. Strange located the missing gem under the corner of one
of the Bohemian Valhalla buildings. Having also tracked the gem there,
Talos blasted out the corner of the building to retrieve the gem.
Despite Howard's attempts to grab the gem before Talos, the gem was
drawn to its sister gems on the Abundant Glove. Claiming all of the
gems for himself, Talos announced the beginning of the Talos Empire
after swatting aside the Human Torch.
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Fantastic Four III#2, p4,
pan4 (Pier Four, main image)
Fantastic Four III#3, p9, pan1 (Pier Four, covered in snow)
Fantastic Four III#22, p4, pan4 (one of Pier Four's interdimensional
doorways)
Fantastic Four III#29, p4, pan3 (Pier Four's hangar)
Fantastic Four III#36, p12, pan6 (Pier Four collapsing)
Howard the Duck IV#4, p13, pan5 (Bohemian Valhalla condominiums, built over Pier Four's rubble)
Fantastic Four III#2
(February, 1998) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Alan Davis (pencils), Mark
Farmer (inks),
Mark Powers (editor)
Avengers III#1 (February, 1998) - Kurt Busiek (writer), George Perez
(pencils),
Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Fantastic Four III#3 (March, 1998) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Alan Davis
(pencils), Mark Farmer (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Fantastic Four III#4 (April, 1998) - Scott Lobdell (story), Chris
Claremont
(script), Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers
(editor)
Fantastic Four III#5 (April, 1998) - Scott Lobdell, Chris Claremont
(writers),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Fantastic Four III#6 (June, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer), Salvador
Larroca
(pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Sensational Spider-Man I#28 (June, 1998) - Todd DeZago (script,
co-plotter), Mike Wieringo (co-plotter, pencils), Rich Case (inks),
Ralph Macchio (editor)
Fantastic Four III#7 (July, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer), Salvador
Larroca
(pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Fantastic Four III#9 (September, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Uncanny X-Men/Fantastic Four '98 Annual (1998) - Joe Casey (writer),
Paul Pelletier, Leo Fernandez (pencils), Andrew Pepoy, Keith Champagne,
Rob Leigh, Ray McCarthy (inks), Frank Pittareese (editor)
Fantastic Four III#10 (October, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Thor II#5 (November, 1998) - Dan Jurgens (writer), John Romita, Jr.
(pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Avengers III#10 (November, 1998) - Kurt Busiek (writer), George Perez
(pencils), Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Fantastic Four III#11 (November, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Mark Powers (editor)
Spectacular Spider-Man I#263 (November, 1998) - Howard Mackie (writer),
Luke Ross (pencils), Al Milgrom (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Silver Surfer III#146 (November, 1998) - Tom DeFalco (plot), Glenn
Greenberg (script), Denys Cowan (pencils), John Floyd (inks), Jaye
Gardner (editor)
Fantastic Four III#12 (December, 1998) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador
Larroca, Anthony Williams (pencils), Art Thibert, Andy Lanning (inks),
Mark
Powers (editor)
Thor II 1999 Annual (1998) - Dan Jurgens (writer, pencils), Klaus
Janson (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Superman/Fantastic Four (1999) - Dan Jurgens (writer, layouts), Art
Thibert
(finishes), Mark Gruenwald, Bobbie Chase (editors)
Fantastic Four III#13 (January, 1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Black Panther III#6 (March, 1999) - Christopher Priest (story), Joe
Jusko (art), Joe Quesada, Jimmy Palmiotti (editors)
Amazing Spider-Man II#4 (April, 1999) - Howard Mackie (story), John
Byrne (art), Scott Hanna (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
Fantastic Four III#20 (August, 1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Galactus the Devourer#1 (September, 1999) - Louise Simonson (writer),
Jon J. Muth (breakdowns), Bill Sienkiewicz (finishes), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Fantastic Four III#22 (October, 1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Galactus the Devourer#2 (October, 1999) - Louise Simonson (writer),
John Buscema (pencils), Bill Sienkiewicz (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Galactus the Devourer#3 (November, 1999) - Louise Simonson (writer),
John Buscema (pencils), Bill Sienkiewicz (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#23 (November, 1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four 1999 Annual (1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Jose
Ladronn (art), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Galactus the Devourer#4 (December, 1999) - Louise Simonson (writer),
John Buscema (pencils), Bill Sienkiewicz (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#24 (December, 1999) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Hulk II#9 (December, 1999) - Jerry Ordway (script, co-plot), Ron Garney
(co-plot, pencils), Sal Buscema (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Domination Factor: Fantastic Four#1.1 (December, 1999) - Dan Jurgens
(script, layouts), Bob McLeod (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Domination Factor: Fantastic Four#3.5 (January, 2000) - Dancin' Dan
Jurgens (script, layouts), Boisterous Bob McLeod (finishes), Twistin'
Tom Brevoort (editor)
Galactus the Devourer#5 (January, 2000) - Louise Simonson (writer),
John Buscema (pencils), Bill Sienkiewicz (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
X-Man#59 (January, 2000) - Terry Kavanagh (writer), Mike Miller
(pencils), Bud LaRosa (inks), Jason Liebig (editor)
Fantastic Four III#25 (January, 2000) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert, Mark Pennington (inks), Bobbie
Chase (editor)
Domination Factor: Avengers#4.8 (February, 2000) - Dan Jurgens
(script), Jerry Ordway (script, pencils), Dennis Janke (inks), Tom
Brevoort (editor)
Fantastic Four III#27 (March, 2000) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#28 (April, 2000) - Chris Claremont (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#29 (May, 2000) - Chris Claremont (writer), Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III 2000 Annual (2000) - Louise Simonson (writer),
Salvador Larroca (pencils), Mark Pennington (inks), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Fantastic Four III#33 (September, 2000) - John Moore (writer), Salvador
Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards#1 (September, 2000) - Peter
David (writer), Duncan Fegredo (pencils, inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards#2 (October, 2000) - Peter
David (writer), Duncan Fegredo (pencils, inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Sentry I#2 (October, 2000) - Paul Jenkins (writer), Jae Lee (art), Joe
Quesada (editor)
Thunderbolts I#43 (October, 2000) - Kurt Busiek (story), Fabian Nicieza
(writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Greg Adams (inks), Tom Brevoort
(editor)
Thunderbolts I#44 (November, 2000) - Kurt Busiek (story), Fabian
Nicieza (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Greg Adams (inks), Tom
Brevoort (editor)
Fantastic Four III#35 (November, 2000) - Rafael Marin (writer), Carlos
Pacheco (writer, art), Jesus Merino (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards#3 (December, 2000) - Peter
David (writer), Duncan Fegredo (pencils, inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Iron Fist/Wolverine#2 (December, 2000) - Jay Faerber (writer), Jamal
Ingle (pencils), Rich Perrotta (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#36 (December, 2000) - Rafael Marin (writer), Carlos
Pacheco (writer, art), Jesus Merino (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#37 (January, 2001) - Rafael Marin (writer), Carlos
Pacheco (writer, art), Jesus Merino (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#38 (February, 2001) - Jeph "Loudmouth" Loeb
(script), Rafael "The Magic" Marin
(co-plotter), Carlos "The Prince" Pacheco (co-plotter, art), Jesus
"Mercury" Merino (inks), Bobbie "Da Bomb" Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#39 (March, 2001) - Jeph "Rockhead" Loeb (script),
Rafael "Emerald" Marin
(co-plotter), Carlos "Diamond" Pacheco (co-plotter, art), Jesus "Ruby"
Merino (inks), Bobbie "Opal" Chase (editor)
Fantastic Four III#43 (July, 2001) - Jeph Loeb (script), Rafael Marin,
Carlos Pacheco (co-plotters), Joe Bennett (pencils), Sandu Florea
(inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
The Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (September, 2001) - Chris Claremont
(writer), Pascual Ferry (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Bobbie Chase
(editor)
Howard the Duck IV#4 (August, 2015) - Chip "Stan Lee" Zdarsky (writer),
Joe "Stanley Lieber" Quinones (pencils, inks), Joe "The Man" Rivera
(inks), Wil Moss (editor)
Howard the Duck IV#5 (October, 2015) - Chip Zdarsky (writer), Joe
Quinones (pencils), Joe Rivera, Paolo Rivera (inks), Wil Moss (editor)
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