DISINTEGRATOR

Classification: Extraterrestrial technology

Creator: Unrevealed, presumably Kree scientists

User/Possessors: Red Ghost (Ivan Kragoff)

First Appearance: Fantastic Four I#13 (April, 1963)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: The disintegrator could fire a powerful energy beam. It located its targets using sensors within the visible spectrum of sight, making it useless against invisible targets.

History: (Avengers I#133 (fb) - BTS) - The disintegrator was likely built untold centuries ago, when representatives of the Kree race built the Blue City on Earth's Moon. (Fantastic Four I#13) - When the Red Ghost first fought the Fantastic Four in the Blue City on the Moon, he managed to discover an ancient disintegrator weapon and brought it under his control. He had the device rigged up behind a wall of stone, and intended to blast the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) with it when he burned through the wall to catch him.    However, the Invisible Girl (Sue Storm) had secretly witnessed the Red Ghost hatch his plot, and she warned her brother off just in time. She pointed out the disintegrator to the Torch, as it could not detect her, and the Torch melted the weapon into slag.

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.

This weapon may be similar in design to the energy cannon that killed the Phoenix in X-Men I#137.

Profile by Prime Eternal. Expansion by Ron Fredricks.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Blue City's disintegrator should not be confused with:

• disintegrator - item in King Solomon's Tomb--Black Panther I#4
• disintegrator gun - invention of Elias Poole--Tales of Suspense I#31/3
• disintegrator ray - invention of Tony Stark--Tales of Suspense I#42/1
• Project: Vanish - World War II era disintegrator ray--Tales of Suspense I#68/2
• Protonic Disintegrator - Kree execution device--Captain Marvel I#38
• any other disintegrators

images: (without ads)
Fantastic Four I#13, p19, pan6-7 (immaterial Red Ghost approaches disintegrator)
Fantastic Four I#13, p20, pan2 (disintegrator proves useless against invisible targets; Invisible Girl, Human Torch [background])
X-Men I#137, p33, pan1 (energy cannon rises from surface of Moon)
X-Men I#137, p33, pan4 (energy cannon fires beam that disintegrates Phoenix; Cyclops [foreground])

Appearances:
Fantastic Four I#13 (April, 1963) - Stan Lee (writer/editor), Jack Kirby (pencils), Steve Ditko (inks), Art Simek (letters)

First Posted: 02/12/2006
Last updated: 08/07/2024

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