

Ivan Kragoff
A Soviet scientist of extraordinary intellect, Ivan Kragoff deliberately exposed himself and his trained simian crew to cosmic rays during a space mission, transforming them all — and earning him the alias the Red Ghost, a sworn enemy of the Fantastic Four.
Few villains made a splash quite like Ivan Kragoff — bursting onto the scene in Fantastic Four #13 in 1963, right in the thick of Marvel's electrifying Silver Age, conjured by the legendary team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He's a figure shaped by the space-race anxieties of his era, a Cold War antagonist who has shared the page with Marvel's First Family — Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm, and the ever-lovin' Thing — across nearly 63 years of adventures. With five key-issue appearances to his name and a presence stretching from classic Fantastic Four tales to Marvel Comics Presents and even the wild crossover territory of Planet of the Apes vs. Fantastic Four, Kragoff has proven himself a remarkably durable corner of Marvel's cosmos. For collectors tracing the deep roots of the FF's rogues and rivals, he's exactly the kind of Silver Age original worth hunting down.
Real name. Ivan Kragoff
Powers. Super-Genius Intelligence: Ivan Kragoff is considered to be one of the smartest people on the planet. He is a brilliant scientist skilled in the fields of rocketry, engineering and physics. He is also skilled in training simians. ; Technological Achievements

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