Terrible Trio (Marvel Comics) Terrible Trio (Marvel Comics) The Terrible Trio is a fictional super-villain team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. 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. 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
Superhero comics World War II and the end of the Great Depression. In comics format, superpowered and costumed heroes like Popeye and The Phantom had appeared in newspaper comic strips for several years prior to Superman. The masked detective The Clock first appeared in the comic book Funny Pages #6 (Nov. 1936). In the Great Depression and World War II era the first Superhero Comics appeared, the most popular being Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman and Captain America. After World War II superhero comic books gradually declined in popularity, their sales hindered in part by the publication of "Seduction of the