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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #237 FN+
Dec 1981
By John Byrne
Having returned home from their battle against Doctor Doom and the Puppet Master, the Human Torch leaves his teammates on the roof of the Baxter Building so he can go off and check in on his girlfriend Frankie Raye. Reed then instructs Ben to carry the inert body of Doctor Doom down to his lab where the body is put in stasis where it will remain until Reed has a chance to call the Latverian embassy and arrange to have Doom turned over to them. When Reed and Sue decide to take their son Franklin out, they offer Ben and Alicia to join them but they decline opting to spend some time alone. Going to the gym, Ben and Alicia begin talking about their recent episode in Liddleville and how her step-father the Puppet Master tricked them into thinking they were married. When Alicia begins asking Ben when they will do it for real, he tells her that as long as he is the Thing, they can’t get married because he won’t be able to provide her with a normal life. Meanwhile, Sue has caught Reed getting back into his work after getting ready to go out. Even though Reed has detected a strange object that has fallen out of the sky, Sue has no interest in Reed not spending time with the family and uses her powers to push him out of the lab.
