Brilliant scientist Dr. Reed Richards, launches an experimental spacecraft into space, alongside his fiance Sue Storm, his childhood best friend and pilot Ben Grimm, and Sue's brother Johnny Storm. Exposed to cosmic radiation, they gain superhuman abilities and become the Fantastic Four. Simultaneously, ex-geologist Harvey Elder studies the Subterranean realm, creatures of this realm find the F4 spacecraft and bring it to the Subterranean realm. Harvey finds it and gets hit with a residual of the cosmic radiation and in so gaining the power to control the realm and geokinesis, he gets disfigured and altered psychologically becoming Mole Man.
