Appearing in "The Frightful Four!"
Fantastic Four #36
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Frightful Four (First appearance)
- Wizard (Joins)
- Paste-Pot Pete (Joins)
- Sandman (Joins)
- Medusa (First appearance) (Joins)
Other Characters:
- Avengers
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Referenced)
- Rick Jones
- X-Men
- Spider-Man
- Yancy Street Gang (Behind the scenes)
- Doctor Doom (Mentioned)
- Namor the Sub-Mariner (Mentioned)
- News reporters
- Charlie
- Police officers
- François
- Auto mechanics
- Steve
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Inhumans (First appearance)
- Mutants
- Atlantean-Human Hybrids (Mentioned)
- Birds (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Prime Marvel Universe
- Milky Way
- Sol System
- Earth
- North America
- United States Of America
- New York State
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Baxter Building
- Yancy Street (Mentioned)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters (Mentioned)
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Hollywood (Mentioned)
- Disneyland (Mentioned)
- New York State
- United States Of America
- Mediterranean Sea
- Madam Medusa's Island
- Earth's Stratosphere
- North America
- Earth
- Sol System
- Heaven (Invoked)
- Asgard (Invoked)
- Milky Way
Items:
- Captain America's Shield
- Captain America's Uniform
- Paste-Gun
- Infra-Red Sniper-Scope
- Fantasti-Flare
- Wizard's Anti-Grav Discs
- Wizard's Sleep Spray
Vehicles:
- Pogo Plane MK I
- Wizard's Ship
- Johnny's Car
- Fantasti-Car (Mentioned)
Events:
- Reed and Sue's Engagement Party
Synopsis for "The Frightful Four!"
Fantastic Four #36
Reed Richards and Sue Storm publicly announce their engagement to the press. As they are making their announcement, a package is delivered from the Yancy Street Gang. The Thing opens it, fearing it's the worst and discovers that it's bomb of some kind. However, instead of a harmful explosion, the bomb was a gag filled with flowers.
Elsewhere, Paste-Pot Pete meets with the Sandman and the Wizard to form a new group to go after their mutual foe, the Human Torch. Pete and Sandman recount how they broke out of prison, stole a plane, and saved the Wizard from floating out in space following his last battle with the Human Torch. The Wizard then tells them that he has heard a potential fourth member to their group, a strange woman who can control her hair that lives on an island out in the Mediterranean Sea and has no memory of her past.
Meanwhile, the Fantastic Four are busy preparing for the wedding. As arrangements are being made, the Frightful Four meet for the first time and begin plotting the doom of their good counterparts. Back at the Baxter Building an engagement party is underway with the Avengers and the X-Men in attendance. The Frightful Four make their attack after the party goers leave, ambushing and incapacitating the Thing, the Invisible Girl, and Mister Fantastic. They are unaware that Alicia Masters is also on the premises, and while the Frightful Four are placing anti-gravity discs on their foes, she takes the Signal Flare from Sue's belt and fires it off.
It is seen by the Human Torch, who is over at his friend's garage working on a car, and he races to the Baxter Building. However, Alicia is caught by Medusa, and she, too, is taken prisoner. The four prisoners are then left to drift into the sky on the Wizard's anti-gravity discs. The Torch rushes on the scene and, using his flame powers, forces the Wizard to fly his anti-gravity ship into the sky and rescue his friends. After the Fantastic Four and Alicia are rescued, the ship is attacked by the Frightful Four, who followed after them in the Fantastic Four's Pogo Plane. Forced to land, the two groups battle it out until things start going in the Fantastic Four's favor. Seeking to escape, the Wizard detonates his ship, allowing the Frightful Four to flee the scene in all the confusion.