User blog:Nausiated/Project 11/61: Frightful Four

In this most recent run of Project 11/61, I have been working on the original members of the Frightful Four. As of this writing I have completed *full* histories of the Frightful Four team, the Wizard and Trapster up to early 2015. I am putting in the final touches on Sandman up to this point as well, although as of this writing his profile now has everything up to his appearances prior to the. I am going to skip doing Medusa until I get to the first appearance of other members of the Inhuman Royal Family (who first appear in . The main reason why is because most of them all appear together for the most part and to minimize re-reading comics multiple times when approaching later characters.

Not much to really say about writing about these characters, except for the fact that like many other profiles of "b-grade" villains, most of their profiles were full of incomplete information. Nobody has bothered doing a conclusive review of all their appearances. I suspect there probably was some plagiarism here and there. But for the most part these profiles were "bottom heavy", meaning people have only bothered covering the most recent appearances of these characters and when there were massive gaps in their history. Which if a character has made over 100 appearances and their profile is only a few paragraphs long, that is a total lack of care on the part of any contributors. Seriously, if you want to be a meaningful contributor to the site, starts adding information that is missing from past decades. Anybody can add whatever is new and current, it takes effort to do the research necessary to understand where everything fits into continuity.

Another thing you'll notice -- particularly with the Sandman -- my references are THICK with supplementary material. I often find it is much easier to stick to the basic facts of a character's appearance in a given issue and then go into more detail regarding the surrounding plot devices that led to that event happening the way it did in the reference tag. If you want to see what *GOOD* reference tags look like, take a peak at some of the notes I've written in my Sandman profile.

So where am I going next? Well as I said, I am skipping Medusa even though she appeared in Fantastic Four #36 along with the rest of the Frightful Four, because a lot of her appearances go hand in hand with the rest of the Inhumans. So that'll wait. In the meantime I will be doing the following:


 * Spider-Man: An Expanded History page covering his appearances from his birth all the way up to his last chronological appearance in December 1969. Like other long running characters I'll only be doing a decade of continuity (plus flashbacks, untold tales and the like from all of Marvel's history of publications that I can find at the time I am doing my research). Keep in mind that this is SPIDER-MAN. So this is going to be a heavy endeavor. (He appeared briefly in FF #36)


 * From : Warlord Morrat and Princess Anelle, the Druffs. I've already done full profiles for the Skrulls and Dorrek VII for this update.


 * From I'll be doing the first decade of Daredevil, and a full history of Dr. Doom's assistant Boris.

So stay tuned for these updates.