Jack Frost (Marvel Comics)

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Jack Frost is the name of two unrelated fictional comic-book characters in the Marvel Comics universe, the first of them published by Marvel's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books.

1 Jack Frost (Golden Age)
- 1.1 Publication history
- 1.2 Fictional character biography
2 Jack Frost (Modern)
3 Footnotes
4 References

[edit] Jack Frost (Golden Age)

Jack Frost

Golden Age Jack Frost
Detail from cover of The Invaders #6 (May 1976)
Art by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott

Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941)
Created by	Stan Lee Frank Giacoia

Characteristics
Alter ego	unrevealed (possibly Jack Frost)

[edit] Publication history

Marvel Comics' first character named Jack Frost outwardly recalls the folklorish spirit of winter Jack Frost. First appearing in USA Comics #1 (Aug. 1941), from Marvel predecessor Timely Comics, he was one of the first creations of future Marvel editor-in-chief and publisher Stan Lee ^[1], who collaborated with penciler Frank Giacoia and inker Carmine Infantino.^[2]

[edit] Fictional character biography

This Jack Frost seemingly awoke wandering the Arctic wastes with no knowledge of his past or origins. He resembles a young man made of ice, and can create and withstand extremely cold temperatures and generate large amounts of ice. In Marvel Premiere #29 (April 1976), he was retconned to have been a member of the stateside World War II-era superhero team the Liberty Legion.

Jack Frost appeared in the modern era in Captain America #384 (April 1991), where it was explained he had sacrificed himself by melding with an Arctic "ice-worm" monster in order to neutralize it and keep it from possibly devastating humanity. Jack Frost was briefly freed during an encounter with Captain America before willingly melding with the ice-worm once more. Marvel's mythological character Thor in this issue speculated that this Jack Frost may be the diminutive child of a Norse mythology Frost giant.

[edit] Jack Frost (Modern)

Main article: Blizzard (comics)

In modern Marvel continuity, an unrelated, human scientist, Professor Gregor Shapanka, using technological means to generate incapacitating ice, became the supervillain Jack Frost, Introduced as an antagonist of the superhero Iron Man in Tales of Suspense #45 (Sept. 1963), he later took on the name Blizzard.