List of Fantastic Four enemies
Marvel modern universe debuted in the pages of Fantastic Four in 1960s created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. At that time Strange Tales also published stories featuring Fantastic Four cast, mostly Human Torch and Thing, where also some of the F4 villains debuted. Following are the major F4 villains who debuted in Fantastic Four, Strange Tales and other marvel comics.
Fantastic Four debuts
Supervillain name | Notable alter ego | First appearance issue # | Creator | Notes |
Mole Man and his Giganto | Harvey Rupert Elder | The Fantastic Four #1 (November 1961) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An underground leader of Subterranea, who plans to take over the outer world that rejected him. Rules over different creatures and has access to highly advanced technology. |
Skrull | Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An alien race that can shapeshift and are bent on taking over the Earth. | |
Namor | Namor McKenzie | Fantastic Four #4 (May 1962) | Bill Everett | An underwater anti-hero who tried to win Invisible Woman's heart. |
Doctor Doom | Victor Von Doom | The Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
The Fantastic Four's archenemy. Ruler of Latveria, bent on dominating the Earth. One of Marvel's biggest and most popular villains. |
Puppet Master | Phillip Masters | Fantastic Four #8 (Nov. 1962) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An artist that can control people with puppets he creates in their image. |
Impossible Man | Fantastic Four #11 (Feb, 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An alien that can shapeshift. | |
Red Ghost and his Super Apes | Ivan Kragoff | Fantastic Four Vol.1 #13 (April 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A Ghost like figure with minions of Super-Apes. |
Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android | Julius | Fantastic Four #15 (Jun 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
He is a genius specializing in evil robotics and usually comes up with very elaborate infallible devious plans that unfold like clockwork. |
Super-Skrull | Kl'rt | Fantastic Four #18 (Sep. 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A Skrull with the powers of the Fantastic Four and also hypnosis. |
Rama-Tut | Nathaniel Richards | Fantastic Four #19 (Oct. 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
One of many names of Kang the Conqueror, an Avengers villain and Reed Richard's stepbrother. |
Molecule Man | Owen Reece | Fantastic Four #20 (November 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A villain or a reluctant hero with the power of molecular manipulation. Originally could only control inorganic matter, but can now control both types. |
Delinquent | Fantastic Four #24 (March, 1964) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
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Diablo | Esteban Corazón de Ablo | Fantastic Four vol. 1 #30 (September 1964) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An evil alchemist. |
Attuma | Fantastic Four #33, (December 1964) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
Also Namor's archenemy | |
Dragon Man | Fantastic Four #35 (February 1965). | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A robot in the form of a dragon created by Diablo. | |
Frightful Four | Fantastic Four #36 (March 1965) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
The team opposite of the Fantastic Four. Led by the Human Torch's enemy, the Wizard. | |
Maximus | Fantastic Four #47 (Feb. 1966) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A member of the Inhumans, who wants to take over his brother Black Bolt's business as leader of the Inhumans. | |
Galactus | Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A living cosmic entity that feeds on planets. | |
Klaw | Ulysses Klaue | Fantastic Four #56 (Nov 1966) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A human physicist who has been transformed into solid sound, and who wears a sonic emitter on his right wrist as a prosthetic device. Also known as Black Panther's archenemy. |
Blastaar | Fantastic Four #62 (May 1967) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A villain from the Negative Zone with the power to project blasts of highly concussive kinetic force from his hands. | |
Ronan the Accuser | Fantastic Four #65 (Aug. 1967) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
The Supreme Accuser of the Kree Empire. | |
Kree | Fantastic Four #65 (Aug. 1967) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race. | |
Psycho-Man | Fantastic Four Annual #5 (Nov. 1967) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A member of a microscopic race who can manipulate emotions. | |
Annihilus | Fantastic Four Annual #6 (November 1968) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A villain that wields the cosmic control rod to take over the Earth. | |
Overmind | Fantastic Four #113 (August 1971) | Stan Lee John Buscema |
The Overmind is an alien belonging to the Eternals. | |
Air-Walker | Gabriel Lan | Fantastic Four #120 (March 1972) | Stan Lee John Buscema |
Xandarian herlad of Galactus. |
Nicholas Scratch | Fantastic Four #185 (August 1977) | Len Wein George Pérez |
A wizard and son of Fantastic Four supporting character Agatha Harkness. | |
Salem's Seven | Fantastic Four vol. 1 #186 (September, 1977) | Len Wein George Pérez |
A team of magical supervillains that are children of Nicholas Scratch and grandchildren of Agatha Harkness. | |
Terrax | Fantastic Four #211 (Oct. 1979) | Marv Wolfman John Byrne Joe Sinnott Ben Sean |
A Herald of Galactus who betrayed Galactus. | |
Kristoff Vernard | Kristoff von Doom | Fantastic Four vol. 1 #247 (October 1982) | John Byrne | One who takes the identity of Doctor Doom for a while before becoming an ally for the Fantastic Four. |
Terminus | Fantastic Four #269 (August 1984) | John Byrne | An alien destroyer. | |
Paibok | Fantastic Four Vol. 1, #358 (November 1991) | Tom DeFalco Paul Ryan Danny Bulanadi |
A powerful Skrull. | |
Devos the Devastator | Fantastic Four #359 (December, 1991) | Tom DeFalco Paul Ryan Danny Bulanadi |
An extraterrestrial vigilante dedicated to bringing peace to the universe, but holds the rather warped view that this can only be done by destroying anyone whom he deems a threat to galactic peace. | |
Occulus | Fantastic Four #363 (Apr 1992) | Tom DeFalco Paul Ryan |
He was one of the first villains imprisoned in the Negative Zone prison. | |
Hyperstorm | Fantastic Four #406 (November 1995) | Tom DeFalco Paul Ryan Dan Bulanadi |
Both the future descendant and enemy of the Fantastic Four. | |
Abraxas | Fantastic Four Annual 2001 (September 2001) | Carlos Pacheco | A cosmic entity who seeks to destroy all realities. | |
Salamandra | Fantastic Four #514 (August 2004) | Paco Medina | Half-dragon woman who is The Wizard's ex-wife. | |
Strange Tales debuts
Supervillain name | Notable alter ego | First appearance issue # | Creator | Notes |
Wizard | Bentley Wittman | Strange Tales #102 (Nov 1962) | Stan Lee Larry Lieber Jack Kirby |
An enemy of the Human Torch and the founder of the Frightful Four. |
Paste-Pot Pete/Trapster | Peter Petruski | Strange Tales #104 (January 1963) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
An original member of the Frightful Four, Trapster can trap people with adhesives or lubricants |
Other titles debuts
Supervillain name | Notable alter ego | First appearance issue # | Creator | Notes |
Kang the Conqueror | Nathaniel Richards | The Avengers #8 (Sep. 1964) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
This prime Avengers villain has many ties to the team and has had more than a few tuffs with the Fantastic Four as well. |
Immortus | Nathaniel Richards | Avengers #10 (Nov 1964) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
The future self of Kang the Conqueror, an Avengers villain. |
Ego | Thor #132 (September 1966) | Stan Lee Jack Kirby |
A powerful living planet that is primarily a villain of Thor. | |
Mephisto | The Silver Surfer #3 (Dec. 1968) | Stan Lee John Buscema |
This prince of darkness has tried to tamper with the souls of the Fantastic Four and will most likely try to do it again. One of Ghost Rider's archenemies, besides Blackheart. | |
Living Monolith | Ahmet Abdol | X-Men #54 (Mar 1969) | Arnold Drake Roy Thomas Don Heck Neal Adams |
An X-Men villain who was the Living Pharaoh while in his normal appearance, but once he obtained enough cosmic energy, he would increase in mass, size, and power, thus becoming the Living Monolith. |
Llyra | Sub-Mariner #32 (December, 1970) | Roy Thomas Sal Buscema |
A female atlantean who is also an enemy of Namor. | |
Brute | Marvel Premiere #2 (May 1972) | Roy Thomas Gil Kane |
An evil counterpart of Reed Richards. | |
Aron | Captain Marvel #39 (Jul 1975) | Steve Englehart Al Milgrom |
A rogue Watcher that likes to manipulate against the Fantastic Four. | |
Beyonder | Secret Wars #1 (May 1984) | Jim Shooter Mike Zeck |
A sentient universe come to Earth in human form to study humanity | |
Lucia von Bardas | Secret War #1 (February 2004) | Brian Michael Bendis Gabriele Dell'Otto |
A woman cyborg from Latveria. |
Other Major Villains
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby collaborated on first 102 consecutive issues of Fantastic Four. Most of the major marvel concepts i.e Latveria, Atlantis, Wakanda, Attilan, Negative Zone, Microverse, Subterranea and Avalon which late became huge part of other major marvel characters, debuted in Fantastic Four title. Following are some of the villains who have gone on to become major villains of various marvel franchises.
Supervillain name | Franchise | First appearance issue # |
Skrull | Marvel Universe | Fantastic Four #2 (January 1962) |
Immortus (Kang) | Avengers | Fantastic Four #19 (Oct. 1963) |
Molecule Man | Marvel Universe | Fantastic Four #20 (November 1963) |
Attuma | Namor | Fantastic Four #33, (December 1964) |
Maximus | Inhumans | Fantastic Four #47 (Feb. 1966) |
Galactus | Silver Surfer | Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966) |
Klaw | Black Panther | Fantastic Four #56 (Nov 1966) |
Kree | Marvel Universe | Fantastic Four #65 (Aug. 1967) |
Enclave | Adam Warlock | Fantastic Four #66 (Sep. 1967) |
Annihilus | Marvel Universe | Fantastic Four Annual #6 (November 1968) |