Be they mystical, military, or just plain mad, these misfits and masterminds have been thorns in
the sides of the members of the Empire Club. Beware before you enter. As a wise man once
said, "Never will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!"
From the mystical city Divinidon, hidden in the mountains of Tibet, this fourteen-year-old girl
was sent by the same monastic order that taught Juliet
DuPont her occult powers to fill the vacant position of the "Crimson Wraith" when Juliet
was lost in outer space for three months in a rocket ship procured by the United States Navy.
She calls herself "Medusa," after the monster of Greek mythology, for the myriad snake tattoos
she wears on her shaved head. Demonstrating powerful psychic abilities herself, this malevolent
maiden nearly buried alive Prince
Ganefkhamen of Egypt in the catacombs beneath Paris, and continues to vie with Juliet for
the attentions of Max Galahad
His American father, Private Ezekiel Baker, was a hero in
the Great War. His mother, the daughter of a Chinese railroad worker, died in childbirth. The
physician who assisted in his delivery, Dr. Gregory
McGreger, was forcibly recruited by Chandler's great-grandfather, Wook Chang, the infamous Chinese Tong boss, to
be the personal physician to the Tong when he discovered that Dr. McGreger's Western medical
training was insufficient to save the life of his granddaughter during Chandler's breech birth in
1918. As an adult in 1934, Chandler, nicknamed "Tou Fu," or "the Butcher," led his own
organized crime gang in Hong Kong, and tried, in vain, to torture Dr. McGreger into revealing
the whereabouts of rival gangster Jimmy
Sung.
In 1910, these freckle-faced, two-fisted bullies terrorized the Irish neighborhood in Brooklyn
where Max Galahad grew up. These two tyrannical
tots would have made mince meat out of a young, wagon-toting street urchin named "Merlin" had it not been for the timely intervention of
nine-year-old Max and his pint-sized posse, aided by a young Amy Johnson and her loyal collie "Galahad."
This charlatan daredevil fraudulently forged a name for himself as a great aerial stuntman by
staging phony stunts around the turn of the twentieth century. When he tried to kill his rival,
famous pilot Glenn Curtiss, by sabotaging Curtiss'
plane before his historic flight from Albany to New York City in 1910, a nine-year-old Max Galahad and his friends thwarted the evil-doer in a
showdown at the Coney Island Amusement Park.
Ringleader of the "Baton" traveling gypsy circus, Maisie caused a diversion during a
performance in Marseilles, France, by enraging the dancing bear with a gunshot so his gypsy
performers could rob the audience members. The scheme went awry, however, when the
rampaging bear killed a spectator, and forced renowned Russian animal tamer Nicholai Petrolovich to bring his employer to justice.
Maisie vowed revenge on Petrolovich for turning him over to the gendarmes by pledging that his
gypsy minions would hunt down the Russian.
Well over one-hundred years old, this ornery matriarch of the infamous Grey family is also a powerful shaman, having been raised as a child by Sioux mystics on the plains of Texas. When a young Colonel Grey adopted the child after slaughtering the entire tribe, the young Hyacinth vowed revenge on the "pale faces" on behalf of the Sioux ancestors. And no more insidious revenge did she sow than to spawn an entire family of dastardly miscreants, such as her granddaughters Lily, Rose and Magnolia and her grandson Benedict Grey, who, although once a respected member of The Empire Club, has since assumed the ancient title of Night Tiger of the Janissaries of Arabia, guiding his followers in a slew of questionable crusades.
As much a patriot to his native Japan as Tong Godfather Jimmy Sung is to his beloved China, this Yakuza boss did everything he could to sabotage the return of the fabled deity Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King, to the shores of the Chinese mainland. With the aid of his thugs, this gangster was able to cause a riot in the streets of Hong Kong which the heroes of The Empire Club struggled to quell before the casualties became excessive. Tanaka Kyoshi has earned bragging rights as the only man to ever draw a reliable beat on Danny "Killer" Mak.
Just what twisted brand of Buddhism this sinister eremite practiced remains a mystery. All that is known of him is that he was an evil magician who was responsible for the murder of nearly every devotee of the respected, ancient Chinese philosopher Xuan Zang, the teacher who is fabled to have accompanied the deity Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King, on a spiritual quest to the West. Among the few who escaped Fung's treachery is the acolyte Lu Wen, who led the heroes of The Empire Club to Fung's ruined temple. Fung was felled by none other than Max Galahad's best buddy Sammy Palermo with a short sword Sammy pilfered from a Phoenix Horde soldier months before.
MEDUSA
CHANDLER "TOU FU" BAKER
RUSTY AND "ROUNDHOUSE" BARNES
VITO AMARONE
MR. MAISIE
HYACINTH GREY
TANAKA KYOSHI
FUNG CHI
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