BRONZE AGE MINUTE: The Inhumans #7

Marvel; October 1976
Cover uncredited

Title: “A Trip to the Doom!”
Synopsis: The Inhumans take to the stars in search of a new home, but instead find danger on a dust-covered world.

Writer: Doug Moench
Penciler: Gil Kane
Inker: Don Perlin

Review: With Attilan in ruin, the Inhumans finally break free from the perpetual “Maximus is mad and has seized control!” plot that had plagued them since their debut in The Fantastic Four. Though the “search for a new world” storyline isn’t exactly fresh, the sci-fi approach is a promising new direction for The Inhumans. Doug Moench does a nice job establishing the premise with this standalone issue, which also features a tale about class divisions on a perpetually mobile city. Gil Kane turns in his weakest issue, though the blame might actually lie with the book’s latest B-list inker, Don Perlin.

Grade: B

Cool factor: The bug-like, mobile city concept is loaded with potential, and the story’s ending makes fine use of that fact.

Character quotable: “Medusa, if you don’t keep that cursed hair off me, I swear I’ll rip it right out of your –” – Gorgon, making himself popular once again.

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