Armed with the knowledge that the mother of all Big Monsters is headed their way, the Fantastic Four and Iron Man are heading south! To Antarctica, that is, and to the very source of the disturbance sending monsters worldwide into an uncontrollable panic. But even the greatest scientific minds in the Marvel U, and their Japanese cohort, monster expert, Dr. Yamane, may have met their match when the unknowable, the unimaginable, the biggest darn big monster ever, comes home to crush a little planet called Earth.
Stories from this comic have been reprinted in a collection, Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (Trade Paperback), which was released on Jun., 07, 2006 Find it at online retailers or at a comic shop near you:
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