LOOPY LAPSES IN LOGIC - FANTASTIC FOUR #8...

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Okay, so you all know the story.  The PUPPET MASTER

lures The THING into his clutches via one of his radioactive clay

figures, and is then surprised to find that SUE STORM has also

turned up in his lair, having invisibly followed Ben there to see

where he was going in his trance-like state.

Noticing that his step-daughter ALICIA bears an uncanny

resemblance to Sue, he gets her to impersonate The INVISIBLE

GIRL and then sends her back to the BAXTER BUILDING with

Ben - as a "little prank" he says - but why?  What does it achieve,

other than to send his step-daughter into possible danger?

As he later reveals, he had the 'foresight' to create a puppet

of Sue, so why not just put her under his control and send her

back to the Baxter Building with Ben?  In fact, why even bother

do that?  Why didn't he just put all four of them under his power

and have the FF come to his apartment, where he could destroy

them at his leisure?  Or just have them 'top' themselves in

their skyscraper headquarters?

H'mm, one thing's for sure.  I'm either giving the matter

too much thought, or STAN and JACK didn't give it enough.

Which do you think it's likely to be?  (Be gentle with me.)

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