My Crazy Youth: The Fantastic Four vs. Galactus- Round 3!

 After the last Episode, I figured I'd keep going.

In Episode 20 (now fully in the new style), Galactus would return in 'When Calls Galactus...'

The FF go out to dinner, but are mobbed by fans.  Whoops.

One girl (Nova) is daring and kisses a morose Johnny (missing his beau Crystal) and... lights on fire.

It turns out that she was exposed to chemicals as a kid and now has Johnny's powers too!

Bad timing as Terrax- last seen in 'To Battle the Living Planet'- arrives and attacks!

He is Galactus' new Herald (replacing Silver Surfer), but wants their help to kill him!

They are forced to acquiesce when he floats New York City into the upper Atmosphere!

The group- with Nova and now Invisible Woman- goes to him and he explains that he was 'poisoned' by a Planet chosen by Terrax.

He attacks them and our Heroes realize that his attacks power up Galactus, allowing him to defeat his Herald!

As he goes to leave, Galactus is suddenly 'sick' from that Planet (delayed reaction?) and now decides to feed on Earth!

They battle him, but things aren't going well.

A literal Deus Ex Machina arrives in the form of Thor (voiced by John Rhys Davies!), who aids them.

However, he's still not enough.

As a Fox Crossover, Ghost Rider (who previously appeared on Hulk and was going to get a Show) rides onto the scene and uses his Penance Stare.

It makes Galactus feel the pain of every life he took by eating their Planets (which is countless 1,000,000,000s!).

Galactus goes down!

He soon begins to feed on its own energies, shrinking the giant alien!

However, Nova speaks up, offering to become Galactus' new Herald and exploring the Galaxy with him.

Johnny doesn't take it well, obviously.

She goes with him, apparently not appearing on the Show again.  Dang.

The End.

A fun Episode, even if it does speed through a ton of story in just one Episode.

Curiously, the 1st Season did a 2-Part Episode on Galactus (which I remember watching on my living room floor one Saturday morning) and then did these Episodes in just one-offs.

In the course of 20+ minutes, we have to meet Nova, get her origin, see her relationship form with Johnny, see her fight the villains and then see her change her fate to leave with Galactus.

If that's not a speed run, what is?

Having said that, I did like it.  I like that they introduced Terrax and Thor before and then paid them off in the same Episode.

Ghost Rider was a good replacement for Dr. Strange, who did the same thing in the Comics (just with a spell that caused the same effect).

It is a random, but fun cameo.

All in all, this one- sans Silver Surfer- does show what an improvement we got from Season 1.  I mean...this is a real Screenshot from that 2-Part Episode.

A less remembered, but still fun Episode of this dated Show.  Thankfully, it is less dated in the bad way, especially compared to the previous 2.