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
Marvel Comics was able to capitalize on its successful superhero comics of the previous decade by acquiring a new newsstand distributor and greatly expanding its comics line. Marvel pulled ahead of rival DC Comics in 1972, during a time when the price and format of the standard newsstand comic were in flux. Goodman increased the price and size of Marvel's November 1971 cover-dated comics from 15 cents for 36 pages total to 25 cents for 52 pages. DC followed suit, but Marvel the following month dropped its comics to 20 cents for 36 pages, offering a lower-priced product with a higher distributor