Fantastic Four 36

"The Frightful Four!" is the story title to the thirty-sixth issue of the first ongoing Fantastic Four comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The story was written and edited by Stan Lee with artwork by Jack Kirby. It was inked by Chic Stone, and lettered by Artie Simek. Jack Kirby and Chic Stone also rendered the cover art illustration to this issue. This issue shipped with a March, 1965 cover date and carries a cover price of .12 cents per copy. In this issue, love is in the air as Reed Richards and Susan Storm announce their engagement. But the celebration is put on hold as the Wingless Wizard forms his own super-villain team to defeat them - the Frightful Four!

Appearances

 * Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
 * Invisible Girl, Susan Storm
 * Human Torch, Johnny Storm
 * The Thing, Ben Grimm


 * Alicia Masters


 * Wizard, Bentley Wittman
 * Paste Pot Pete, Peter Petruski
 * Sandman, William Baker
 * Medusa, Medusalith Amaquelin


 * Angel, Warren Worthington, III
 * Beast, Hank McCoy
 * Captain America, Steve Rogers
 * Cyclops, Scott Summers
 * Giant-Man, Hank Pym
 * Iceman, Bobby Drake
 * Iron Man, Tony Stark
 * Marvel Girl, Jean Grey
 * Professor X, Charles Xavier
 * Rick Jones
 * Spider-Man, Peter Parker
 * Thor Odinson
 * Wasp, Janet van Dyne


 * Avengers
 * Fantastic Four
 * Frightful Four
 * Yancy Street Gang undefined
 * X-Men


 * Humans
 * Altered humans
 * Asgardians
 * Inhumans
 * Mutants


 * New York
 * New York City
 * Manhattan
 * Baxter Building


 * Mediterranean Sea


 * Captain America's shield
 * Paste-gun
 * Fantasti-Flare


 * Pogo Plane
 * The Wizard's hover-ship


 * Bio-conversion
 * Elasticity
 * Flight
 * Pyrokinesis
 * Superhuman strength
 * Trichokinesis

Notes & Trivia

 * The Fantastic Four were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.


 * An edited version of this story is reprinted in Marvel's Greatest Comics #28. It is also reprinted in Mighty World of Marvel #77 (a British magazine series), the Marvel Masterworks, Volume 21 hardcover collection, the Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four, Volume 4 hardcover collection, the Fantastic Four Omnibus, Volume 2 and the Inhuman: The Origin of the Inhumans'' trade paperback collection.


 * This is the first appearance of the Frightful Four. All but one member of the group, Medusa, have made prior appearances in other titles.


 * This is the first appearance of Medusalith Amaquelin, aka Medusa. She is a member of a genetically bred race called the Inhumans. Thus, this makes this the first appearance of the Inhumans as well. The race as a whole makes their first official appearance however in Fantastic Four #45.


 * Behind-the-scenes appearance by Yancy Street Gang. This is a group of street punks that always play pranks on Ben Grimm. The Thing #1 reveals that Ben Grimm used to be the leader of the Yancy Street Gang when he was a teenager. Later stories will reveal that many of the pranks attributed to the gang, were actually conducted by Johnny Storm.