I was just curious about something I read in a comic from late 1978. I remembered that the folks here seem remarkably clued up on events, movies and comics from the 1970s so I have to ask.

In Fantastic Four 206 the team is put on trial by the Skrulls. The issue spends several pages on the Skrull's need to tick all the legal boxes, particularly of the Convention of Fornax. It seems odd to spend so many pages on that. It's never been a consideration before or since, so I wondered, why include it? Any ideas?

To me it reads like a commentary on governments doing the minimum needed to rubber stamp international law. Was this kind of thing in the news in the late 1970s? Or in movies?

I gather that the convention of Fornax featured in the Avengers, but I don't know much about it. Were the politics of the Kree Skrull war a big deal in other Marvel books of the time? Can anyone fill me in?

Thanks for any help.