#542

Synopsis

Reed and Johnny meet in a coffee shop to discuss the Civil War. Reed brings the Thinker to the Baxter Building to check his math in calculating the necessity and social outcome of superhuman registration. The Thinker confirms his conclusions but notes that Reed has had to do some truly evil things to prove his theorem. Torch catches up with Ben in Paris and invites him to come back home.

Reprinted in

• Civil War: Fantastic Four #[nn]
• Civil War Chronicles #6
• Fantastic Four Adventures #52
• Marvel Icons #29
• Civil War: Fantastic Four #[nn]
• Civil War #6
• Civil War #4

Credits

Script

Dwayne McDuffie, Molly Lazer

Pencils

Mike McKone

Inks

Andy Lanning, Cam Smith

Painting

Adi Granov

Colours

Paul Mounts

Letters

Rus Wooton

Editor

Tom Brevoort

Assistant editor

Molly Lazer, Aubrey Sitterson

Editor-in-chief

Joe Quesada

Other printings & variants

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