OR: "What A Way To Spend A Vacation"
With all the exposure the Kree have received in The Avengers, how curious that we first learn of them in the pages of Fantastic Four, and in only a limited number of appearances at that. As a mysterious alien race that apparently visited our world long ago, they're given quite a build-up in a pair of 1967 back-to-back FF stories; but whether by design or because of opportunity, the Kree were diverted to other titles for the time being. First, they would be briefly passed over to the Mighty Thor book at the end of the year, where they would play a part in a major revelation involving the Inhumans--and, during the same month, they would also factor into the debut of Captain Marvel taking place in Marvel Super-Heroes. Three months later, it would fall to the new Captain Marvel title to expand on their threat, where unfortunately the Kree didn't live up to expectations (much like the book itself).
In Fantastic Four, however, we were given a lot to look forward to concerning the Kree, when a professor researching an alien civilization arrives on an island in the Pacific and uncovers not only the evidence that he's been seeking of their existence, but also a remnant of that race that lives up to its name--the operative word, unfortunately, being "lives."
And so Sentry 459 makes his first appearance and heralds the debut of the Kree race in Marvel lore. But just how long has the Sentry been dormant? As we'll discover, the Sentry was walking the Earth during the formative stages of mankind--but in the here and now, it's the Fantastic Four who must bear the brunt of the Sentry's reawakening.
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