Puppet Master (Marvel)

The Puppet Master is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Phillip Masters

Phillip and Jacob started a business in the town of Watershed Lake utilizing the clay that Phillip had been using for years. However Phil eventually grew jealous of Jacob and his ideal life and soon became enraged enough to try and sabotage the company out of spite. Seeing the lights at their laboratory on that night, Jacob went to investigate. Phillip attacked his partner and during the fight Phillip knocked Jacob into a vat of clay causing a massive explosion. While Phillip was knocked clear, Jacob's wife and child were waiting in the car and went to check on him just as the lab exploded. While Marcia was unharmed, Alicia was blinded as a result of the blast. Phillip kept the cause of Jacob's death a secret, telling his grieving family that he had died in an accident. Phillip married Marcia and both she and Alicia took his name. (Marvel Team-Up v1 #6)

Phillip started his criminal career during the early days of what is referred to as the modern age not long after the formation of the Fantastic Four. Now calling himself the Puppet Master, Phillips first criminal operation was to put the Thing under his control. Doing so, he commanded the Thing to come to his apartment, unaware that the Invisible Girl was following the Thing. However the intruders presence was betrayed thanks to Alicia's acute hearing and the Puppet Master knocked the Invisible Girl out. Disguising Alicia as Sue Storm, he sent her with the Thing to the Fantastic Four's headquarters the Baxter Building. While the Thing attacked the Fantastic Four, the Puppet Master took control of the warden at State Prison and staged a jail break. At the Baxter Building, the Thing was freed from the Puppet Master's control when he was briefly reverted back to his human form of Ben Grimm. The imprisoned Sue Storm managed to fire off a warning flare and with Alicia's directions the Fantastic Four attacked the Puppet Master at his home. However while the heroes were occupied by on of his robotic puppets he escaped with Alicia. While the Fantastic Four stopped the jail break, the Puppet Master attempted to utilize a puppet of himself which he believed would make him the king of the world. However Alicia stepped in the way and pulled the puppet out of his hand, throwing it onto the floor. As he ran for it, Phillip tripped over Alicia's arm and went crashing out a window just as the Fantastic Four arrived. The group believed that Phillip had died in the fall, but never bothered to check if this was the case or not. (Fantastic Four v1 #8)

With the cosmically empowered-clay, Masters crafted a puppet of the Hulk and took control of him where he had sent him against the Thing to get the revenge he wanted against Ben Grimm for marrying his daughter. Despite being stronger, the Thing was able to knock out the Hulk with the last of his strength. This freed the Hulk from the Puppet Masters control whereupon the Emerald Giant sought revenge against Masters by smashing his way into the Raft and breaking various bones in the villains body. (Fantastic Four v6 #13)

Notes

• The Puppet Master was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby where he made his first appearance in Fantastic Four v1 #8 (November, 1962).

Appearances

• Fantastic Four v1: (1962)
• Fantastic Four v6:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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