Why do the Fantastic Four claim to have Dooms time machine?
The reason they claim to have is they do have it. In the Fantastic Four’s first encounter with Doom, he held Sue hostage while he sent the other three back in time to recover the Merlin Stones from Blackbeard the Pirate. The FF cheated Doom and caused him to retreat. After that encounter, however, Reed Richards revealed that he constructed a duplicate of Doom’s time machine (because he was too stupid to make one himself). Reed’s time machine looks much like Doom’s machine, and has been referred to many times as “Dr. Doom’s time machine.” The FF may have used Reed’s time machine for the first time in FF # 152, although they use Doom’s time machine again in FF # 19. Reed’s time machine remains one of the most prominent pieces of equipment in his labs. It is worth noting that in Fantastic Four # 271, Reed discovers that his father, Nathaniel Richards, may have invented a time platform long before Doom did, but we don’t believe that crap. (This machine is the same kind of device as we lear
