[meteorite-list] Re: Meteor(ite) FF comic (was...the vision is back)

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Geoff N. wrote:

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Hola Geoff,

Jack Kirby actually drew me a headshot of the Thing in the early 70's, and I 
haven't been able to find it in the past 20 years.  I always liked John 
Bucema's artwork best, even if Kirby was a groundbreaker.

This was after my time (I was an active fan in the early to late FF 100's), 
but Google was accomodating as I read this Fantastic Four #227 issue (Feb. 
1981) summary.  Our resident genius, Dr. Reed Richards (a.k.a. Stretcho or Mr. 
Fantastic), was invited by his geologist friend "Gideon Carrothers, not 
Gibeon:-)" from his ol' college days to investigate a meteorite fall he had 
successfully triangulated.  The locality of the fall was "Lost Lake" somewhere near the 
Catskills or Peekskill I suspect.  The meteorite was from a world destroyed by 
an asteroid-type collision, and some of the dominant creatures living on it 
(hmmm dominant creatures being parasites? wouldn't the host be the dominant 
creature well maybe not as they had a broad range of animal hosts here) survived 
on the meteoroid that eventually survived as a fall into to Lost Lake while 
they had planned their geology/R&R vacation.  Funny things happen as the 
creatures are a bunch of brain parasites that infected animals, the geologist, and Sue 
Storm-R and cause them to all revert to monster versions of their respective 
evolutionary trees.  And somehow they produced eggs with Sue.  After some good 
classic fighting and separation and destruction of the parasites or whatever 
they were, evolution was reverted to normal in the affected individuals.  The 
Brain parasites when dead turned into trilobites and there were other 
geological things going on as geology was married to the wolfman.  Reed apparently 
studied both the meteorite and the creatures and I believe it was published in 
the mag's Meteoritical Bulletin, which he no doubt cold pull stings on to get 
his work published probably with Gideon.

Dates to remember:
Orgueil Fall: 1864
Orgueil has hydrocarbons and ET fossils published in Nature by Bart Nagy: 1961
Lost City Meteorite Fall: 4 Jan 1970
This Issue: Feb. 1981
Peekskill Fall: 1992
Allan Hills 84001 first recovered: 1984
Allan Hills 84001 Science article on fossils and hydrocarbon content: 1996


Read it all here:
http://www.ffplaza.com/library/?issue=ff227
'Nuff Said !!!
Doug