FROST BITE

Real Name: Unrevealed; may be Frost Bite

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-333333333/"Earth-33 1/3") being of unrevealed origins (see comments)

Occupation: Superhero

Group Membership: Fantastic 400 (Aqua-Lung, Asparagus Jones, the Blocker, Blot from Planet Z, Blue Herbert, Bobby Dazzler, B.O. Kid, Captain Chelmsford, Captain Leeds, Captain Patriot, Cellophane Wayne, Celtic Warrior, Ceramic Man, Cos Mik, Cyborg Cyd, Cyborg Cyril, Damsel in Distress, Doctor Daktari, Doctor Elixar, Doctor Peculiar, Duplicate Man, the Fairly Amazing Spider-Hound, Fiery Jack, Flamer, Flamer, General Junta, Green Thingy, Hopping Harry, Human Whizz, Jet Lagg, Jock Strap, Joey Jackson, John Bull, Kid Chemistry, Lightning Bolt, Man Ant, the Mask, Mister Tremendous, Monster Man, Pogo Kid, Prince Regent, the Red Pimple, Rubber Band, Shadow Dancer, Super Ape, Super Mutant, Super Tot, Tall Man, Tin Can Tommy, Tin Can Trevor, Viking King, Weed Boy, Yak Man, others)

Affiliations: Senator Dyrich, Avengers, Justice League of America

Enemies: Common Cold Germ, Criminal Group Practice (Doc Deaf, Doc Evil, Doc Lazer), Doc Fear, Hot Metal Melvin, Ned Smaile

Known Relatives: An unidentified ice cream cone (mother, allegedly)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Fantastic 400 skyscraper H.Q., New York City, Earth-333333333

First Appearance: Fantastic Four#2/2 (Marvel U.K., October 13th 1982)

Powers/Abilities: Frost Bite is composed of living snow. This makes him immune to bullets and many other physical attacks. However, it also leaves him physically very weak, able to be pulled apart by others with ease, and vulnerable to heat, which melts him.

Height: Variable
Weight: Variable
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: None

History:
(Exploits of Spider-Man#1/2 (fb)) - In 1982 a lot of people were bitten, stabbed, injected or splashed by radioactive, gamma and cosmic rays, and so were born the Fantastic 400, the world's largest and happiest super group.

(Fantastic Four#2/2) - Frost Bite was a superhero composed of snow, who looked like a snowman come to life, complete with a carrot for a nose.

(Mighty Thor#2/2) - He was from Bournemouth.

(Fantastic Four#16/2) - Frost Bite was considered the weakest member of the world's largest superhero team, the Fantastic 400.

(Fantastic Four#2/2) - The members of the Fantastic 400 introduced themselves individually. During the second week of these introductions they reached Frost Bite's turn to do so.

(Fantastic Four#3/2) - Lined up single file, the Fantastic 400 prepared for battle, with each member passing the instruction on from the member in front of them to the member behind, in Frost Bite's case hearing the instruction "Attack. Pass it on." from Viking King and passing this back to Cyborg Cid.

(Fantastic Four#5/2) - As the voluptuous new team member Damsel in Distress introduced herself to her teammates the men all ogled and drooled. Overheating, Frost Bite went one step further, and melted.

(Fantastic Four#7/2) - Hearing a bloodcurdling shriek Frost Bite declared "Sufferin' snowflakes! That awful scream." Other members of the Fantastic 400 speculated as to the cause, until Man Ant revealed it wasn't a precursor to battle, merely a wail of despair from the artist, who had just learned they team was going to be teaming up with the Avengers and Justice League of America next week.

(Fantastic Four#16/2) - When violent criminal Ned Smaile had the cops pinned down, shooting at them from an upper story window with a machine-gun, Frost Bite rushed into the building hoping to prove he wasn't the weakest member of the Fantastic 400. Unable to be harmed by bullets he climbed in through the window and punched the villain on the nose, seized the man's weapon and threw it down to the police. However the crook immediately found himself a new weapon - the unfortunate Frost Bite's snow body - and started pelting the constabulary with snowballs instead.

(Fantastic Four#17/2) - With the rest of the team on their night off, Frost Bite was sitting by the phone in the Fantastic 400's skyscraper HQ one evening when an urgent call came in from the police commissioner, asking for his help with a job only he could handle. Pleased that the police wanted him, the weakest of the team, Frost Bite hastily flew over to the police station on his flying sled, only to discover that the commissioner wanted him because their fridge was bust and they needed a way to cool their beer.

(Fantastic Four#18/2) - Because the recession the team could only afford a single sky jet, so when called out on a mission most of the team had to hang on for dear life to the outside, including Frost Bite, clinging to the jets at the tail end, the starting point of a giant daisy chain of members clinging to one another's legs as they trailed behind the vehicle.

(Fantastic Four#20/2) - Frost Bite joined Aqua-Lung in evaluating auditions for new team members. They watched with concern as Hand Grenade exploded his right hand, then consternation as two workmen carried a gigantic flashlight on to the stage and just left it there. Confused, Aqua-Lung asked Frost Bite if he knew what was going on, but Frost Bite was equally clueless. Then the flashlight unexpectedly spoke, asking them if they'd not heard of the Human Torch.

(Fantastic Four#26/2) - While having a drink in Joe's Bar Frost Bite was unaware that two other patrons were discussing him and how he was the weakest member of the Fantastic 400. Watching as Frost Bite went over to play the bar's slot machine, one drinker added that he'd heard Frost Bite was the weakest being in the universe, with the weakest arms, weakest legs, weakest body, indeed weakest everything. The other drinker was doubtful, insisting that nobody could be that weak, but the first one insisted it was the case, and pointed out that Frost Bite was now on his knees begging for mercy, having lost his wrestling match with the one-armed bandit.

(Mighty Thor#2/2) - The members of the Fantastic 400 discussed their homeworlds, each revealing that they came from various alternate Earths with increasingly exotic codenames. The Tall Man asked Frost Bite where he originated, and he responded that he came from Earth. The others recoiled with incredulity that he came from plain old Earth, no numbers, letters or other descriptors, and a sheepish Frost Bite admitted that more specifically he came from Bournemouth (see comments). Hearing this the others pointed in unison and declared him a weirdo, leaving Frost Bite hanging his head in shame.

(Mighty Thor#3/2) - Entering the Fantastic 400 rest room Frost Bite greeted his fellow heroes hanging out there, but to his annoyance not one of them acknowledged him. After repeating himself more loudly and forcibly with still no response, Frost Bite angrily declared they were all jerks and he'd had it with them and being ignored just because he was the weakest, so he was quitting. As he stormed off his parting words began to register with Aqua-Lung, who asked the others if he'd heard it correctly. They admitted they'd not been listening, but the Blocker noted that they couldn't let Frost Bite leave. Aqua-Lung, Cos-Mik, Super Ape and Tall Man raced after Frost Bite and begged him to stay, so Frost Bite, feeling his self-worth renewed, accepted, adding he never knew they needed him so much. Aqua-Lung corrected him, stating that wasn't the reason; it would just be a huge bother changing their 400 logo on their costumes to 399.

(Mighty Thor#10/2) - Frost Bite raced to Fantastic 400 HQ in response to the emergency signal being activated, finding the others already present. Aqua-Lung explained that Senator Dyrich had called a special meeting on instructions from the President, who was disappointed with how they handled the Boston Tea Party (i.e. they weren't there) and felt they would be more efficient fighting force if their membership was pared down to a more reasonable figure - to whit, three members. When asked how the three would be chosen, Dyrich stated that only the strongest would remain, and to begin whittling the numbers down instructed all those who could leap tall buildings in a single bound to stand on one side of the room. The skyscraper titled dangerously to one side since only Frost Bite failed to move. With him eliminated and off the team, Dyrich confidently declared they only had 396 more to go.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#1/2 (fb)) - When the 1990s dawned the recession hit and El Dorado started on television, changing the previously happy Fantastic 400 into the Dark Fantastic 400. Frost Bite was among those overtaken by this new grim phase. They fought in the Eternity Crossover Crisis War, and in 1992 they were all killed to keep up the death quota for a comic strip of the gritty 1990s.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#2/2 - BTS) - Luckily they all soon fully recovered.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#17/2 - BTS) - But there were lasting repercussions, changes to the timeline, such as Frost Bite now coming from Clacton instead of Bournemouth, and other events being wiped from history (see comments).

(Exploits of Spider-Man#4/2) - Frost Bite accompanied Aqua-Lung and another unidentified team member to Liverpool to appear alongside TV presenters Richard and Judy on the program This Morning. While there they and new member Lightning Bolt cornered their deadly enemy Doc Fear atop local landmark the Liver Building. Frost Bite watched as the undentified team member used a loudspeaker to order Doc Fear to surrender and throw down his weapon, and watched in shock as said weapon, a tank, landed on the unidentified member's head, squishing him.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#15/2) - While having a drink in a bar Frost Bite was unaware that two other patrons were discussing him and how he was the weakest member of the Fantastic 400. Watching as Frost Bite went over to play the bar's slot machine, one drinker added that he'd heard Frost Bite was the weakest being in the universe, with the weakest arms, weakest legs, weakest body, indeed weakest everything. The other drinker was doubtful, insisting that nobody could be that weak, but the first one insisted it was the case, and pointed out that Frost Bite was now on his knees begging for mercy, having lost his wrestling match with the one-armed bandit.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#17/2) -  The members of the Fantastic 400 discussed their homeworlds, each revealing that they came from various alternate Earths with increasingly exotic codenames. Jet Lagg asked Frost Bite where he originated, and he responded that he came from Earth. The others recoiled with incredulity that he came from plain old Earth, no numbers, letters or other descriptors, and a sheepish Frost Bite admitted that more specifically he came from Clacton (see comments). Hearing this the others pointed in unison and declared him a weirdo, leaving Frost Bite hanging his head in shame.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#19/2) - In Chelmsford violent criminal Hot Metal Melvin had the cops pinned down, shooting at them from an upper story window with a machine-gun, Frost Bite rushed into the building hoping to prove he wasn't the weakest member of the Fantastic 400. Unable to be harmed by bullets he climbed in through the window and punched the villain on the nose, seized the man's weapon and threw it down to the police. However the crook immediately found himself a new weapon - the unfortunate Frost Bite's snow body - and started pelting the constabulary with snowballs instead.

(Exploits of Spider-Man#22/2) - Entering the Fantastic 400 rest room Frost Bite greeted his fellow heroes hanging out there, but to his annoyance not one of them acknowledged him. After repeating himself more loudly and forcibly with still no response, Frost Bite angrily declared they were all jerks and he'd had it with them and being ignored just because he was the weakest, so he was quitting. As he stormed off his parting words began to register with Aqua-Lung, who asked the others if he'd heard it correctly. They admitted they'd not been listening, but the Blocker noted that they couldn't let Frost Bite leave. Aqua-Lung, Doctor Peculiar and Cyborg Cyril raced after Frost Bite and begged him to stay, so Frost Bite, feeling his self-worth renewed, accepted, adding he never knew they needed him so much. Aqua-Lung corrected him, stating that wasn't the reason; it would just be a huge bother changing their 400 logo on their costumes and headed notepaper to 399.

Comments: Created by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett.

   The strip never reveals Frost Bite's origins, so he could be a transformed human (mutant or mutate) but he might also be a literal snowman somehow brought to life.

   There are several other Fantastic 400 strips, and Frost Bite might well be considered off-panel in any that include mass team gatherings, but for ease I'm only listing the ones where he appears on panel (or at least gets mentioned).

   For the non-Brits, Frost Bite's hometown of Bournemouth is a very normal, very mundane and unexciting seaside town in the south of England. Clacton is considered even less interesting, and with a sillier sounding name. And for those who are not Brits or not old enough to remember the 1990s, El Dorado was a dire and thankfully relatively short-lived British soap opera set in a holiday resort in Spain.

   The Golden Age Frost Bite of Earth-Beta shows up in Mighty Thor#19/2 - or perhaps, as Mighty Thor and the X-Men#20/2 claims they are the villainous Golden Age Fantastic 400 of Earth-Alpha - the strip contradicts itself. Either way, the regular Frost Bite doesn't show up, so it doesn't impact the history above, but I'm mentioning it for completeness.

   The Fantastic 400 rested for several years after its run in Mighty Thor, eventually returning in full color in Exploits of Spider-Man. Although fully redrawn, some scripts for this new run were recycled from the original run, hence why Frost Bite's unsuccessful battle with a one-armed bandit is listed twice. In theory it might not be the same story retold; it's entirely possible he lost two times to two different machines in two different pubs. Similarly, he had two almost identical encounters where a gunman used him to make snowballs; perhaps Hot Metal Melvin is merely an alias of Ned Smaile, and this is just two tellings of the same event? Slightly harder to reconcile is Frost Bite twice getting into a conversation about where he comes from, the first time claiming he comes from Bournemouth, the second time Clacton. In the real world this would probably be because Tim Quinn either wasn't too fussed about contradicting established continuity in a humor strip, and perhaps thought Clacton was funnier than Bournemouth, but in universe I guess the Eternity Crossover Crisis War could have changed some things, the way these Crisis events tend to do.

   This profile was completed on 08/09/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent The Fantastic 400.

Profile by Loki.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Frost Bite has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
Exploits of Spider-Man#19, pan2 (main image)
Exploits of Spider-Man#19, pan3 (headshot)
Fantastic Four (UK)#17, p18, pan1 (with picture of mother)
Fantastic Four (UK)#17, p18, pan3 (sled)
Exploits of Spider-Man#1, pan2 (grim and gritty)

Appearances:
Fantastic Four (UK)#2 (13th October 1982) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#3 (20th October 1982) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#5 (3rd November 1982) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art) 
Fantastic Four (UK)#7 (17th November 1982) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#16 (19th January 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#17 (26th January 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#18 (2nd February 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#20 (16th February 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Fantastic Four (UK)#26 (30th March 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Mighty Thor (UK)#2 (27th April 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art) 
Mighty Thor (UK)#3 (4th May 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Mighty Thor (UK)#10 (22nd June 1983) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#1 (October 1992) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#2 (November 1992) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#4 (January 1993) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#15 (November 1993) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#17 (January 1994) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#19 (March 1994) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art)
Exploits of Spider-Man#22 (June 1994) - Tim Quinn (writer), Dicky Howett (art) 

First Posted: 09/29/2026
Last updated: 08/09/2026

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