Issue: #1
It's Ben Grimm - the ever-lovin', blue-eyed Thing- on his own for the first time, and he's clobberin' everything in sight! The Inhumans! Wonder Man! She-Hulk! Spider-Man! The Fantastic Four! The Yancy Street Gang! The Puppet Master! And the uncanny Goody Two-Shoes! Plus: The Thing proposes marriage, and it's not to Alicia Masters! Collecting THING (1983) #1-10.
Characters: Doctor Doom, Quicksilver, Wonder Man, Black Bolt, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mister Fantastic, She-Hulk, Thing, Crystal, Gorgon, Karnak, Lockjaw, Medusa, Triton, Franklin Richards, Jarvis, Roberta, John Byrne, Alynn Cambers