(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#37 (fb) - BTS) - Fearing the fabled curse of the Rock of the Franks following the death of Konrad Dippel (aka Baron von Frankenstein) in 1734, Konrad's family of two brothers and five sisters (see comments) fled from Castle Frankenstein (in the territory of Hesse/Hessengau (now apparently Darmstadt, Germany) to Switzerland, taking with them Konrad's infant son, Alphonse.

     In Geneva, they began a new life.

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus) - Alphonse and Beaufort were close friends, but Beaufort fell into hard financial times despite having been a successful merchant. Alphonse helped him pay his debts and wanted to help him regain his previous status, but by this time, Beaufort was in poor health. When Beaufort passed away, Alphonse took Beaufort's daughter Caroline back to Geneva to care for her.

     Alphonse married Caroline Beaufort, and they had their first child, Victor, soon after.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#37 (fb) - BTS) - In 1760, during a journey to Naples, Alphonse's wife gave birth to Victor, the first of their three children. Looking into the smiling face of his newborn son, Alphonse believed that at last the curse of the Frankensteins was truly ended.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition) #4: Frankenstein's monster entry) - Victor was the heir to a Swiss barony.

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus) - Alphonse and Caroline had two other sons together, Ernest and William. They also adopted Elizabeth Lavenza, with whom Victor would later fall in love and marry.

 ((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - William was Victor's younger brother.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#37 (fb) - BTS) - Ernst was the third son of Alphonse and Caroline.

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus) - His marriage and subsequent family led Alphonse to leave his job as a public official for the Swiss government to focus on being a good husband and father.

    Alphonse educated his children, including teaching them Latin and English. His unforced teaching methods helped them appreciate the goals they were trying to reach.

  ((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) - BTS) - As a boy, Victor often climbed the snow-capped Alps to ponder his problems in the serenity they provided.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#37 (fb) - BTS)  <Per the Book of the Vishanti> -  Although unaware thate he was the grandson of  the notorious alchemist and necromancer Konrad Dippel, "blood -- most especially blood accursed -- will tell...and so young Victor was inexorably drawn to the same subject as his famous ancestor: Eternal life."

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus) - When Victor was a thirteen and became interested in studying alchemy, specifically the work of Cornelius Agrippa, Alphonse bluntly told Victor to stop. That subject, he noted, "is sad trash."
    Victor later stated that his father's dogmatic condemnation of the work without explaining his reasons contributed to his continuing that line of research and ultimately developing the process for creating the creature.

    Caroline contracted Scarlet Fever when caring for the young Elizabeth, who had contracted the disease; Caroline died when Victor was seventeen, right before he left for the university.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) - BTS) - Victor became engaged to Elizabeth.

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus / (The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe II (Deluxe Edition) #4) - As Victor prepared to depart for the University of Ingolstadt (see comments), he told Elizabeth that he would miss her. At his query, Elizabeth promised to write every day, and she told him to take care.

     Alphonse advised him to study hard...that his family may be proud of him on his return. Victor subsequently departed in a horse drawn coach, his spirit soaring with the hope that sparked men to greatness. Alphonse's best friend, Henry Clerval, noted that Victor would do well, if ambition did not block his path.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) - BTS) - In his first two years at the university, Victor worked himself to the verge of exhaustion yet earned the admiration and respect of the finest scientific minds in Europe.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - One of Victor's professors advised him, "It is as important to learn patience as it is to learn fact. But you will now see that...now that we begin the dissection of human cadavers."

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) - BTS) - On the contrary, with each lesson, Victor became more and more impatient to delve ever deeper into the mysteries of the human body.

(Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus) - Alphonse wrote to Victor, "You must pardon me, if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected."

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - Victor collected numerous corpses, robbing graves, collecting hanged men from the gallows, etc. and then dragging them up the stairs to his secluded laboratory.

(Frankenstein Monster#16 (fb)) - Victor was assisted by Igor in graverobbing the parts used to create the Monster from graves.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#4) - Victor embarked on experiments at reanimating dead human bodies to discover a means for human immortality.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb) / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#4) - Combining various limbs and organs from numerous sources, Victor eventually constructed a complete, giant human form.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe I#4) - Victor's extraordinary genius enabled him to discover a means of preventing cellular deteoriation in the bodily parts he used, and to overcome the human body's tendency to reject allografts (transplants from another being of the same species).

(Frankenstein Monster#16 (fb) - BTS) - The process to revive the monster apparently involved lightning/electricity.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - After six months of labor, Victor gave the form a final injection of an unidentified chemical; he was initially frustrated with his seeming failure, but the creature soon revived, and his excitement turned to horror as his large and monstrous creation approached him menacingly.

(Frankenstein Monster#16 (fb)) - Igor was also present during the Monster's creation, although his subsequent fate is unrevealed.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - When his creation refused to listen to his commands and made only primitive sounds, Victor fled, locking himself in his bedroom. Eventually passing out from exhaustion, Victor eventually awakened to find the monster standing over him.

     As the monster apparently attempted to communicate with gestures and guttural sounds, Victor blocked this out and instead decided that the monster must be destroyed. Eventually distracting the monster with a candelabra, Victor fled in a blind panic into the rainy night until he collapsed in utter exhaustion.

    He was eventually found by his father's friend Herncy Clerval, who brought the delirious Victor to his hotel room; hovering on the brink of death for many weeks, Victor was cared for by Clerval until eventually reviving. Clerval then informed Victor that he had received a letter that same day from Elizabeth, noting that William Frankenstein had been murdered.

     Additionally, Clerval explained that Alphonse's young ward, Justine Moritz, had been charged with the murder.
 

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#1 (fb)) - Victor accompanied Clerval back to Geneva to be with his family, although all along he wondered about the monster, correctly suspecting that it had murdered William and framed Justine.

    Both Elizabeth and Alphonse would not have believed Justine to be guilty, but Alphonse noted how Justine had been found clutching William's pendant, a few feet from where William had been murdered.

     Victor argued that perhaps the killer had placed the pendant in Justine's grasp, and as Alphonse replied that the courts had dismissed the possibility, Victor apparently observed the monster's face just outside of his window. Victor rushed out but found the monster missing and considered that the tracks indicated that he had gotten away.

    Learning that Justine was to be hanged, Victor traveled to the prison in hopes of freeing her. However, upon seeing her having accepted her fate and realizing that tell his story would condemn himself as some kind of lunatic, he left her to her fate, and the next day, she was hanged.

    Witnessing this, Victor wondered whether he himself was actually to blame for the deaths of Justine and William.     The following morning, Victor packed and departed into the mountains, climbing higher than he had ever climbed before, seeking refuge from the horrors of his existence while knowing that the only escape was death for himself or for his creation.

     When his legs grew eary, he sought refuge in a cave and started a fire, but after he stared into flames for until early morning, he was confronted by his monstrous creation who -- having learned to speak -- announced that he must die.

    Briefly driving the monster back with fire, Victor reached his rifle and shot his creation. Minimally affected, the monster lifted Victor into the air, dismissing his attempts to explain by telling him to look at his monstrous appearance, and that the only explanation would be his (the monster's), and after he had told it, Victor would die.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#2 (fb)) - When Victor cursed the monster as a wretch and told him to kill him, as he deserved no better fate, the monster considered that if Victor wanted to die, then he would instead make him live to suffer as the monster had. As Victor wept uncontrollably, the monster noted that Victor felt sorry for himself, but that he, the monster, had suffered a thousand times greater because of Victor.

    The monster then related his history following his departure from Victor's laboratory, including his being hated and attacked by people and animals.

     Victor noted that he was not without sympathy for the creature, but asked why he had slain poor William and Justine instead of him directly.

     The monster told him that that would have been too easy for him and because he wished Victor to create a mate for him.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#2 (fb) / Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#37 (fb)) - Initially refusing, Victor eventually agreed, in part because the creature had vowed to leave him in peace, dwelling far from the haunts of men, if he complied and in part out of guilt for having created the creature and a feeling of owing it a companion.

    They returned to Victor's laboratory (in the vicintiy of the Swiss Alps), and they spent weeks raiding graveyards each night and returning with a fresh corpse that contained an organ vital to the task.

    When Victor became too busy in the laboratory to continue the grave-robbing, the creature was happy to offer its services.

     After six months, with a fresh heart the only remaining piece to be found, the monster returned with a still warm corpse, and Victor realized that the creature had murdered the woman.

    Though sickened by the monster's actions and his own involvement in the matter, Victor worked on. Hours later, Victor implanted the "still-beating heart" (see comments) into the composite female body he was building.

    With the task completed, Victor insisted the creature depart as he prepared to revive his new creation, threatening to destroy her if the monster refused. He then injected this creation with his formula and then removed the bandages.

     When the female creature revived and began shambling across the room, however, Victor was overcome with the fact that he had doubled his crime against God and man.

    Grabbing a knife, he repeatedly stabbed the intended bride of the monster, telling her that he was sparing her from God's wrath for her unnatural existence.

      After Victor had slain his newest creation, though bone-weary and both physically and mentally drained, he left the room and disappeared into the night.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#2 (fb) - BTS) - After finding his slain would-be bride, the monster was encountered by Henry Clerval, who had come seeking Victor.

     Vengefully killing Clerval, the monster took his bride's corpse and departed.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#2 (fb)) - After Victor returned and found Clerval's corpse, he was arrested by constables who had been informed of his depature early that morning by a cleaning lady. Unable to speak in his own defense, Victor was charged with Clerval's murder and taken to jail, wondering all the while it wasn't just that he die for his creation's crime.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#3 (fb)) - At his hearing, beside himself with grief, Victor was unable to defend himself. When the landlady identified him as Clerval's killer, he was bound over for trial. As he was being led away, he went mad and confessed to the crime, asking that they not take him to jail but rather hang him and be done with it.

    For months, Victor languished in prison, haunted by the image of his murderous creation. As many as a dozen times a day, he would awaken from a fitful sleep, screaming. He grew emaciated from exhaustion and poor health.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#3 (fb) - BTS) - Alphonse spoke with the woman who had testified that she had seen Victor leaving the laboratory in which Henry had been found. The woman admitted that she had seen another leave the laboratory, and Alphonse wrote a letter detailing this.

((The Monster of) Frankenstein#3 (fb)) - Alphonse met with Victor in his prison cell, telling him of the letter that would free him as soon as court accepted it. Alphonse thanked God that he sped him to Victor's side to lift this burden from him.

    Finally enjoying a restful sleep that night, Victor was awakened when the monster shattered the wall of his prison. Victor told the creature to kill him if he sought vengeance, but the creature told him that he would have his revenge in a manner ten times more horrible than death.

     He advised Victor that -- for killing his bride -- his revenge would have the same form and that he would be with him on his wedding night.

     The following day, Alphonse achieved Victor's release, and he took the strangely pensive Victor on a coach bound for their family mansion.

    When they reached their home, Victor's melancholy lifted upon being reunited with his fiancée, Elizabeth. Alphonse told Victor he had not seen him so happy in years, and and Victor replied that it was "the powers of the magic elixir called love." Before retiring for the evening, Alphonse told them that he prayed that they would have glad tidings for him on the morrow.

    Elizabeth told Victor that his father was right and that the time had come for them to be together, which was what Alphonse had always dreamed of and what she had anticipated as well. Perhaps seeing the shock and fear on Victor's face (relating to the monster's threat), Elizabeth told him that if he had changed his mind about her, he need only say so.

    Victor assured her that the thought of her what was had kept him existing for the past years, that he loved her more than life itself and that they would be married, no matter what.

    As Victor embraced Elizabeth and they set a wedding date, neither of them was aware that the monster stood outside the window and watched them. Victor hoped against hope that he could escape the monster's threat.

    A few days later, Elizabeth and Victor were married, although even then and during the farewells that followed, Victor's every thought was on a method in which he might foil his creation's plans for vengeance.

     First, Victor determined to spend their wedding night in a tiny village miles away, accessible only by sea, and as they left Geneva for that secluded spot, he felt almost confident that there was no way the creature could follow.

     But when they arrived that evening, night had fallen, and Victor was overcome by a sense of grim foreboding. Elizabeth asked what made him seem so preoccupied, and he told her that he was just concerned with the security, and that he was going to check the house while she prepared to retire.