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| Publisher |
Marvel |
| Published | January 1979 |
Members of the Yancy Street Gang are imprisoned and being beaten by a Mr. Carnation and some thugs. The captured Yancy Streeters had tried to send a message to the Thing, and the thugs had caught them. Unbeknownst to the thugs, another message had gotten through, however.At the Baxter Building, Ben is playing a blindfolded game of tag with his nephew Franklin, and the other FFers are using their powers to make it more difficult. Its Ben's birthday, and after the game finishes and a cake is demolished, the mailman delivers a birthday package from the Yancy Streeters with a mysterious message: "Keep Away, Thing!" Obviously, something is up, and Ben hops a jet-cycle and goes to Yancy Street.We cut away to Mr. Carnation's base, where a mysterious figure in the shadows tells him that Ben's presence was the whole point of the day's events.Ben, meanwhile, is shot out of the air by a missile. On the ground below, he is attacked by a variety of mechanized devices, from remote controlled semi-rigs to robots. As a somewhat stunned Ben faces down the robots, the Yancy Street Gang breaks free and comes to his rescue...
