Among us hide... the Inhumans is a Fantastic Four story arc by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, that introduced The Inhumans. It started in Fantastic Four #44.
The Frightful Four were defeated in the previous arc, but Medusa escaped. Now she's escaping from a dangerous foe, Gorgon, and even requires the help of the FF. Gorgon manages to capture Medusa and escape with her while the Fantastic Four try to save Sue from the Dragon Man, but Johnny (who was suddenly left by his girlfriend Dorrie) immediately finds in love with a girl he finds in the street, Crystal. Turns out that Crystal, Gorgon and Medusa (and others) are the Inhumans, a family of people from a race with superpowers that evolved on its own in a hidden city. Reed manages to find it, and they appear just in time to help the Inhumans defeat the evil Maximus, who intended to kill the whole human race. Maximus, however, manages to enclose the city inside an indestructible force field, with the Inhumans inside.
Among us hide... the Inhumans provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: Reed and Sue got married in Fantastic Four Annual Three, between this story arc and the previous one.
- Asshole Victim: Medusa is a Damsel in Distress that needs help against that menacing Gorgon. You may find her sympathetic, if she wasn't forcing Johnny at gunpoint to help her and then escaped leaving him to his fate when Dragon Man attacked them.
- Contrived Coincidence: Medusa and the Human Torch started fighting right where Dragon Man was buried, waking him.
- Conveniently Empty Building: Gorgon destroys one of those with just his feet, to show off his powers. Now Fantastic Four, surrender Medusa... or else!
- Crippling Overspecialization: The Inhumans give this impression, in contrast to the Fantastic Four. While the FF's powers are fairly flexible and generic, each Inhuman seems to be designed to be overwhelmingly powerful in one particular way or in one particular set of circumstances. Gorgon can only stomp hard, but he can stomp so hard that it collapses entire buildings. Karnak can break absolutely anything, but only if given time to study it first. Black Bolt is unbeatable in a fight, but only while his power source holds out... and so on. This also serves to make them at once arrogant and paranoid, which doesn't exactly make them easier for the FF to deal with.
- Determinator: Gorgon has pursued Medusa across the world and will not stop at anything in order to capture her and return her home. Or else.
- Either/Or Title: Fantastic Four #44: "The Gentleman's name is Gorgon!" or "What a way to spend a honeymoon"
- Forgot About His Powers: An attack of Gorgon broke Reed's hand. Even with that stretching power that makes him impervious to harm.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Sandman and Trapster are in prison after the last fiasco of the Frightful Four. It's a Tailor-Made Prison, and Sandman can not break the walls of sneak through any holes... hey, wait! What about the glass window? The Trapster warns him that it can't be so easy, for Sandman is tired of waiting. He gets electrocuted for breaking the window, which is immediately replaced by another.
- Love at First Sight: Johnny fell in love with Crystal the moment he saw her. And Crystal fell in love with him, as soon as she saw he had powers.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Crystal liked Johnny, and when she saw him with fire powers she assumed he was a fellow Inhuman. Only that he clearly wasn't with the group she was traveling with, and what would another Inhuman be doing outside the Great Refuge?
- Mistaken for Quake: Gorgon's power can cause small localized quakes. When he first suffers it, the Human Torch protests that there are no earthquakes in New York.
- Shout-Out: Johnny compared the Inhumans with The Munsters.
- Stalking is Love: Crystal escaped from Johnny when she first met him. So Johnny stayed watching the street, in case she appears again, to jump at her and say "hello".
