Apparently, being a word-devouring cosmic entity is better than you'd expect for merchandising:

Take that, C'Thulu!!

And just who on Earth gets the benefit of all this Galactus money?

Well, if you believe Henry Peter Gyrich, it's...

...the Fantastic Four!

Silly, but it's entirely worth it to see Ben rolling around like Uncle Scrooge in his money bin...

From The Marvels Channel: Monsters, Myths and Marvels #3 (2008)

NSA-jerk Henry Peter Gyrich has been making the Avengers jump through hoops to keep their government-issued security clearances, going so far as to dictate their line-up.

Well, he's still not happy with how they operate, because jerk, so he's convened a special hearing of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee to try and strip away their ability to access any government cooperation...

Meanwhile, a mysterious intruder from space is running amok through New York...



SPOILER ALERT: Don't tell anyone, but it's the Grey Gargoyle in a fancy space-suit...

So as the hearing continues...








[Note--by law, Captain America is the one person allowed to violate Godwin's Law with impunity...]




Man, I miss this version of the Beast...

Anyway, the Avengers save the day, and the hearing results do not go quite the way Gyrich expected:

Ouch, Pete.

See, back in the day, "Let heroes be heroes" was a winning argument, not a debatable subject that led to civil wars and public distrust and random character deaths and terribly-written and terribly late Bendis scripts and...

Just sayin.

From Avengers #190 (1979). The final panel above is from Avengers #191 (1980)

Henry Peter Gyrich gives good meeting:

By John Byrne and Gene Day.

Or, if you prefer, you can try the George Perez/Terry Austin version:

From Avengers #181 (1979)