 The police call upon the Fantastic Four to stop him, but the Miracle Man bests them in a series of encounters and hypnotizes the Invisible Girl into obeying him.However, after the Human Torch blinds him with a flare of fire, he is captured easily and his mysterious powers are explained as deriving from nothing more than hypnotism.The Miracle Man next appears as the villain in a two-issue story arc in "Fantastic Four" #138-139 (Sept-Oct, 1973).