Fantastic Four #32, page 12, panel 6
Fantastic Four #31: Reed's Stretchy Body 90
Story by: Stan Lee (Who has never been more dramatic!)
Illustrations by: Jack Kirby (Who has never been more thrilling!)
Inking by: Chic Stone (Who has never been more realistic!)
Lettering by: S. Rosen (Who has never been more than an hour late!!)
The fight against the mysterious figure who has usurped the place of Franklin Storm continues, with a few clues as to his identity starting to appear. Reed notes, as he is punched away, that the figure has the strength of The Thing, and in the next panel, the figure can set his hands on fire ("like The Torch", he handily exposits). If you're not thinking Super-Skrull at this point, then you're really not paying any attention at all. As a side-note, John Byrne claims that the ease with which he identified the mysterious figure is the reason why he stopped read Fantastic Four comics for the next decade or so.
I'm not sure why Reed decided that the best way to break his flight was to wrap himself this intensely around a lamp-post. If he had hit it, he would have stretched around either side of it, and it would have been a lot easier to just grab hold of the lamp-post. I guess committing so much of his incredible brain power to working out the mystery of the Invincible Man meant he had little left to avoid making visually-interesting and logically-unsound stretching choices.
Check out our coverage of Fantastic Four #32 on our thirty-sixth episode: John Byrne Quits Comics