FRITZ
Real Name: Fritz ??
Identity/Class: Human (something, see comments)
Occupation: Lab assistant
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)
Enemies: Victor Creed
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Ravencroft Institute in Westchester County, New York
First Appearance: Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1 (February, 2025)
Powers/Abilities: Fritz was a blue-skinned whatever he was with talon-like fingernails and feet with four toes and a dew claw.
It is unknown whether he possessed any additional superhuman abilities beyond his appearance.
Height: 4'7"
Weight: 90 lbs.
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Blond
History:
(Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1 (fb)) <1909> - Fritz became the lab assistant of Nathaniel Essex at the Ravencroft Institute, who considered replacing Victor Creed with him because Creed couldn't get over it that the mutant Logan had gotten the better of him. Creed didn't even know what Fritz was supposed to be and immediately threatened to get rid of him. Essex told Fritz to just ignore Victor and prepare the body Creed had delivered. Fritz stayed friendly and assured his master that he would do his job.
(Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1 (fb) - BTS) - Fritz was working at the lab when Creed killed him by disemboweling him. Creed then used Fritz's blood to write a message on the wall that he quit his job with Essex.
(Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1 (fb)) - Essex was working in the lab when he called for Fritz. When the little guy didn't answer, he began looking for him and discovered his corpse with Creed's message behind him on the wall in the next room.
Comments: Created by Frank Tieri & Michael Sta. Maria.
Thanks to Quiof Thrul for pointing out this character's existence.
The character's name is a clear reference to Frankenstein's assistant from the first Universal Frankenstein movie. The character actually first appeared in the play Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1823).
Sabretooth: "What the Hell is this?"
Well said, Sabretooth! We don't know where Fritz came from or what he even was. He could be a mutant, a mutate or some kind of creature grown in the lab by Sinister himself, so maybe Essex borrowed the name from the play.
He was active in 1909, so maybe he was actually a creation or former assistant of a Frankenstein. They exist in the Marvel Universe and other assistants like Igor and Ivan> do exist. There is even another Fritz that served and secretly loved Dr. Victoria Frankenstein.
Profile by Markus Raymond.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Fritz has no known connections to:
images:
Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1, p14, pan1 (main)
p19, pan1 (dead)
Appearances:
Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk#1 (February, 2025) - Frank Tieri (writer), Michael St. Maria (artist), Mark Paniccia (editor)
First Posted: 04/07/2026
Last updated: 04/07/2026
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