FALSE FACE

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Fictional character (Earth-616)

Occupation: Inapplicable

Group Membership: Marvel Comics

Affiliations: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee (loose)

Enemies: Dr. Doom/Victor von Doom (loose)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Marvel Bullpen, Madison Avenue, New York, USA

First Appearance: Fantastic Four I#10 (January, 1963)

Powers/Abilities: No powers were revealed, but False Face apparently was a master of disguise, and potentially possessed some sort of shape-shifting ability.

Height: Inapplicable
Weight: Inapplicable
Eyes: Inapplicable
Hair: Inapplicable

History:
(Fantastic Four I#10) - With a deadline looming, and complaining about the lack of any decent villains since Dr. Doom's unwitting exile into space (@ Fantastic Four I#6), Jack Kirby quickly drew up a head-shot of a proposed new villain for the next issue of their Fantastic Four comic. Stan Lee nixed the idea, calling the concept commonplace and bemoaning the lack of excitement, citing Dr. Doom as a great villain; Jack agreed, stating that villains like Dr. Doom were not created every day.

   But when the Latverian dictator announced his return in the Marvel offices, the character of False Face was quickly abandoned and never used again.

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.

Hey, will someone out there start a letter-writing campaign to finally get this guy into the Fantastic Four series?

   Now just tell me he wouldn’t fear the Living Eraser. Or maybe they could team up?

   Maybe he got wiped out by the Time Variance Authority's Retroactive Cannon as used by Clockwise, which was used to wipe out various timeless characters like ... um ...?
--Grendel Prime

Maybe when Jack Kirby created False Face, he was inspired by stories of the villain of the same name who fought Bob Brant and the Trouble-Shooters (@ Man Comics#26 and 28) [see clarifications].--John Kaminski

Thanks to David A. Zuckerman for a small correction. New main image by Ron Fredricks.

Profile by David Lawrence.

CLARIFICATIONS:
False Face has no known connections to:

• False Face - criminal/spy with a seemingly endless supply of face-masks--Man Comics I#26/1
• any other "False" or "Face" characters

images: (without ads)
Fantastic Four I#10, p5 pan1 (picture of False Face on Jack Kirby's drawing pad; Stan Lee [background])

Appearances:
Fantastic Four I#10 (January 1963) – Stan Lee (script/editor), Jack Kirby (pencils), Dick Ayers (inks), Art Simek and Jon D'Agostino (letters)

First posted: 08/17/2008
Last updated: 08/28/2024