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Reed Richards and his team of vintage adventurers are about to confirm his greatest suspicion and uncover Marvel’s deepest secrets.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Marvels #3 by Kurt Busiek, Yildiray Cinar, Richard Isanove and Simon Bowland, on sale now.
The Marvels has taken readers on a journey through the past few decades, seeding bits and pieces of the much larger puzzle along the way. Captain America and his incredible new team in the present have just arrived in Sin-Cong to deal with some mysterious new threat, Reed Richards and his own eclectic group of adventurers in the past may have just discovered exactly what that threat is. Not only that, but the truth could change what we know about life on Earth in the Marvel Universe entirely, and those secrets are likely being held in the most monstrous location on the planet.
Seventeen years before this story’s present and well before their own incredible transformations, Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have been gathered together along with several future villains such as George Tarleton aka M.O.D.O.K. and Batroc, all at the behest of the enigmatic Company. Their host, Andrew Renard, is happy to get down to business once everyone has gotten acquainted. As he explains the delicate political situation in the nation of Sin-Cong — including mounting pressure on the region on the part of the Chinese Army against the current — French monarchy. As far as The Company is concerned, the growing tensions could only be a result of some new power being discovered in Sin-Cong. Reed Richards has good reason to believe that power is monstrous in its origins. Not only has a massive skull been unearthed there recently, but from what Reed can tell it is only part of a much larger picture that is slowly coming into focus.
Reed explains to the others that he believes there is a “Monster Belt” of sorts near the various tropical zones on the planet, including the Sea of Japan. He even posits that there might be an island inhabited by these primordial beasts somewhere nearby, and that all of this somehow connects the likes of Fin Fang Foom, Gargantus and Zzutak. While even Reed is willing to admit that the names and concepts posed by him in the meeting are quite fantastic if not comedic, they are still very real possibilities, and longtime readers will know that they are far more than just that.
Unbeknownst to Reed Richards during his meeting with the others, Monster Isle is a very real place in the Marvel Universe, and it is one that he has long been fated to become intimately familiar with. First appearing all the way back in 1961’s Fantastic Four #1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Monster Isle has been home to the monstrous creations of the Deviant known as Kro for a very long time. When the Fantastic Four first encountered the island, they came into conflict with the Mole Man who was then in control of the massive Giganto. While the Fantastic Four were able to put an end to the Mole Man’s machinations, Monster Isle has become an integral part of the greater Marvel mythos, serving as home to some of the most amazing characters and storylines in all of comics. The revelation that this was something Reed was minutely aware of long before his first encounter with it begs the question of just how much of Marvel’s monstrous population exists in Sin-Cong.
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