Issue(s): Strange Tales #129 (Human Torch story only)
Cover Date: Feb 65
Title: "The Terrible Trio"
Credits:
Stan Lee - Writer
Dick Ayers - Penciler
Frank Giacoia - Inker

Review/plot:
The three super-villains that Dr. Doom created in Fantastic Four #23 break out of jail. They give the Human Torch a hard time and they talk about how proud Dr. Doom would be of them, but then the Thing shows up and mops the floor with them.

I've talked these guys up in the past. I mean, they've got a lot going for them. Levitation...

...asbestos rope...

...super-strength...

...and, well, listening...

..but i have to admit there's a lot of whining going on once the Thing shows up.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 2

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• The Terrible Trio first appeared in Fanastic Four #23.
  
• Subsequently, they faced the Human Torch alone in Strange Tales #122.
  
• On a date at a golf course, Dorrie Evans goads Johnny about the fact that his super hero life interferes with their romance. She also complains about Johnny's temper, comparing him unfavorably to Peter Parker, who she met in Amazing Spider-Man #21.
  

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: Marvel's Greatest Comics #32

DC also had a Terrible Trio in the early Silver Age; they made these guys look like master villains.

i don't feel good about a person with such an unstable temperament that they incinerate a golf ball because they missed a putt having fire powers.

I don't know about DC's Terrible Trio being worse. I've always thought they were better characters but as I said before not by much.