Terrible Trio (Marvel Comics)
| Terrible Trio | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Fantastic Four #23 (1964) |
| Created by | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
| In-story information | |
| Member(s) | Bull Brogin "Handsome" Harry Phillips Yogi Dakor |
The Terrible Trio is a supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Publication history
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they first appeared in Fantastic Four #23 (1964). They made several appearances in the 1960s and then one appearance in the late 1970s in Marvel Two-in-One #60.
Fictional team history
Bull Brogin, "Handsome" Harry Phillips, and Yogi Dakor were three career criminals brought together by Doctor Doom to help him destroy the Fantastic Four. He pays their bail using a robot and gives each of them superpowers, multiplying their natural abilities by a dozen. The trio capture the Fantastic Four, Phillips tracks the Invisible Girl and gases her, Dakor pretends to be delivering a car to the Torch from a Maharaja, but reveals it is fireproof when he traps him inside and fills it with gas, and Bull uses a cosmic ray gun from Doom to briefly turn the Thing to Ben Grimm and knocks him out. Doom captures Mr Fantastic using a robot Thing which helps him imprison Mr Fantastic in a glass box. Doom sends the Trio them to another dimension until he again needs their services. The Fantastic Four, however, defeated Doom, sending him into space, and the trio was returned to Earth as the power needed to keep them was lessened.
The trio faced the
The trio then spent the better part of a decade in prison before Dakor gained the ability to project their minds into inanimate objects. They possessed Alicia Masters' statues and battled the Thing, he was initially unwilling to damage the statues until Alicia told him it was fine, who defeated them with the help of the Impossible Man.
Years later and allied with
Powers and abilities
Each of the Terrible Trio has different powers:
- Brogin has strength twelve times a normal man.
- Phillips has increased hearing.
- Dakor is completely fireproof and has other lesser abilities. He sometimes rides a mechanical flying carpet. In one story he shows a skill for snake conducting. Dakor later develops the ability to possess inanimate objects, a power he can share with Brogin and Phillips.
The trio employ an asbestos blanket and rope against the Human Torch.
References
- Christiansen, Jeff et al. Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook. Marvel Comics, 2006.
- Olshevsky, George The Official Marvel Index to the Fantastic Four Volume 2, Issue 2. Marvel Comics, 1986.
External links
- Terrible Trio at The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
