Vulture (DC Comics)

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Vulture
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Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance House of Mystery #160 (July 1966)
Created byJack Miller (writer)
Joe Certa (artist)
In-story information
Type of organizationOrganized crime
Agent(s)Faceless
Marco Xavier

Vulture is an international crime cartel in the DC Comics universe. Vulture first appeared in House of Mystery #160 (July 1966), and was created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa.

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Fictional team history

Shortly after retiring his John Jones persona, Martian Manhunter comes into conflict with cartel operatives when he travels to the French Riviera. While in the Riviera, he investigates Marco Xavier, a playboy with supposed links to organized crime. Xavier loses control of his sports car and it plunges off a mountain road, apparently killing him. Martian Manhunter takes advantage of this accident by assuming Xavier's likeness and infiltrating the Vulture cartel. The members of Vulture become Martian Manhunter's main adversaries for fourteen issues spanning House of Mystery #160-173 (1968), the final installment in the character's original solo feature. Faceless, the leader of Vulture, later reveals himself to be Marco Xavier, asserting that he had known Martian Manhunter's secret identity the entire time and allowed his masquerade to continue to lure Manhunter into a trap.

Membership

Other characters named Vulture

There have been five characters named Vulture who have appeared in the DC Universe:

References

  1. 1 2 House of Mystery #161 (September 1966)
  2. ↑ Rovin, Jeff (1987). The Encyclopedia of Super-Villains . New York: Facts on File. p. 365. ISBN   0-8160-1356-X.
  3. ↑ "Steve Rasnic Tem".
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