TAMIROFF
Real Name: Tamiroff (first name unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Human (civilian);
presumably Egyptian (he was at least based out of
Cairo; see comments)
Occupation: Financier
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Mr. Favorsham, Jacob van Vroot
Enemies: Gregory
Gideon;
while not an enemy of the Fantastic Four (Human
Torch/Johnny Storm, Invisible Girl/Sue Storm, Mr. Fantastic/Reed
Richards, Thing/Ben Grimm), he and his associates did drive Gideon to
target the group
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Cairo, Egypt
First Appearance: Fantastic Four I#34 (January, 1965)
Powers/Abilities: Tamiroff had no superhuman abilities. He lead a large business empire of unspecified size and nature, but presumably had access to great wealth and/or technology, etc.
Height: Unrevealed (head
only shown)
Weight: Unrevealed (head
only shown)
Eyes: Unrevealed (shown in gray-scale)
Hair: Unrevealed (apparently light; perhaps white or light gray)
Note: It can't be determined
from the limited images whether Tamiroff was of a more "Caucasian"
("pink" or "white") or "African" ("Black" (more accurately, a wide
variety of shades of brown) ancestry)
History:
(Fantastic Four I#34 (fb) - BTS)
- Based out of Cairo, Egypt, Tamiroff
established a large financial empire.
(Fantastic Four I#34 (fb) - BTS) - Multi-billionaire and financial wizard Gregory Gideon progressively gained control over his top rivals, Favorsham, Tamiroff, and Van Vroot.
(Fantastic Four I#34 (fb) - BTS) - Gideon set up a new company that apparently "almost ruined" Tamiroff and his associates.
(Fantastic Four I#34) - Tamiroff answered a teleconference call from Gideon via his TV intercom unit that included Favorsham and Van Vroot. He noted that Gideon's new company had almost ruined them, but vowed that they would beat him yet; Gideon scoffed, telling Tamiroff he could buy and sell him, and that Tamiroff knew it.
Gideon then explained that while, at his current
rate, it would take three more years to drive them all out of business
(and to take over financial mastery of the world), he had not the
patience for that and wanted to own everything now.
One of the three rivals told Gideon he sounded like a
madman, but to accomplish his goal, an unconcerned Gideon offered the
trio a challenge: to set him a task, anything they thought impossible,
and he would accomplish it in one week--if he failed, he would give up
his plan for world domination.
Favorsham readily accepted the challenge for his
associates, naming Gideon's task as "the most impossible one of all
time"-- to defeat the Fantastic Four.
Eager for the challenge, Gideon readily accepted and
summoned his top planning board.
(Fantastic Four I#34 - BTS) - As Gideon's plans
proceeded, he vowed to defeat the Fantastic Four in "the hardest way
possible," to show Van Vroot, Tamiroff, and Favorsham that his money could
achieve anything for him.
(Fantastic Four I#34 - BTS) - Ultimately, Gideon forfeited his challenge when his son, Thomas, was endangered by his plot; Gideon realized the importance of family and vowed to donate his vast wealth to charity.
Comments: Created by Stan "The Man" Lee, Jack "King" Kirby, and Chic "...The Brick?" Stone.
These images are from the Masterworks reprint, but even in the original comic, the character was only shown in gray colors.
New images by Ron Fredricks.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Tamiroff should be distinguished from:
images: (without ads)
Fantastic Four I#34, p4, pan3 (larger picture; top right of head cut off)
Fantastic Four I#34, p4, pan3 (smaller picture; bottom right of head cut off)
Appearances:
Fantastic Four I#34 (January, 1965) - Stan "The Man" Lee (writer, editor), Jack "King" Kirby
(penciler), and Chic "...The Brick?" Stone (inker)
First posted: 05/04/2018
Last updated: 05/21/2024
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