Aug 1979
Trapped in the Sargasso of Space!
by Marv Wolfman, John Byrne, Joe Sinnott, Tom Orzechowski, Glynis Wein
Mister Fantastic builds himself a robot to help them out, HERBIE. It helps them to plot their trip to find Galactus. Queen Adora gives them Xandar's fastest spaceship. The Fantastic Four leave Xandar in search of Galactus.
The Skrull Empress murders her husband and takes over the Skrull Empire.
The next stop on the Fantastic Four's voyage is the Sargasso of Space where they find lots of abandoned spaceships. They investigate and find bug-like aliens. The aliens attempt to take their spaceship but the Fantastic Four prevent that from happening and then continue on their way.
This is the first comic book appearance of HERBIE. He had previously appeared in the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon. He took the place of the Human Torch in that series.
This is the first issue of Fantastic Four that John Byrne drew. He drew 11 eleven of the 12 issues following this one. He left the series after FF 221 only to return about a year later and begin a lengthy tenure on the book as writer/artist. That run began with Fantastic Four 232 (Jul 1981) and ended with issue 295 (Oct 1986).
There isn't much going on in this chapter. The stop in the Sargasso of Space seems inconsequential at this point and unconnected to anything else.
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