In 1936,
Doc Savage and his aides were visited by
Lucinda Lightner who asked their help in stopping dangerous experiments by her husband,
Dr Raymond Lightner.
In 1976,
The Thing and
Human Torch were visited by
Janice Lightner, who requested their help in stopping her brother,
Thomas Lightner, from recreating the expriments of their late father (
Raymond Lightner)!
Both groups agree.
As each team approaches their targets (The same lab in both time periods), both father and son activate their experimental devices in their respective time periods and...
It ain't often you see
Ben Grimm acting like a fanboy, but since
Doc was one of his childhood idols, it makes perfect sense that a guy who can lift a Mack truck and hangs out with demi-gods like
Thor or
Hercules can be reduced to drooling hero worship by a non-superpowered (though incredibly-intelligent and physically-perfect) normal human.
(Hey,
The Batman acts the same way with
The Shadow, and
the Caped Crusader parties with
Superman!)
Note: there's
lots of currently-available
Doc Savage material (pulps, comics, movies, and even radio shows), all well-worth picking up (most of them are in my personal collection), but we're be showing
only the stuff
not included in those volumes!
, despite the fact that BlackSun (later Nth Man and Mysterium) introduced in this tale has since become an ongoing character in the Marvel Universe.
