Character Assassin (comic story)

Character Assassin was a comic story published by Marvel Comics. It was written by Scott Gray, and featured Roger Delgado's.

Synopsis
visits the Land of Fiction and murders several other villains.

Plot
arrives at a mansion, serving as a social club for all the villains and horrors of Victorian-era fiction. He wants to join the club and meet the elusive Chairman.

Forced by the unseen Chairman to stand before an arena of these bizarre creatures, he loses a vote to join their club (being "white balled") after calling out their fictional identities. The Master quickly dispatches three of the villains who try to eliminate him. He easily kills the pirate Jas and a great tiger, then rips away the "curtain" of reality to find the Chairman - and creator of these beings — is none other than Professor James Moriarty!

Moriarty's belief in himself to allow him to find the controlling headband used to control the Land. He has decided to surround himself with peers. The Master casually takes the headband, dismissing Moriarty as the least of these characters, merely a plot device to get rid of Sherlock Holmes that failed in his purpose. He sends Moriarty back to his written death at the Reichenbach Falls.

An impressed vampire Count speaks for the villains. He offers the Master the role of Chairman, but the Master declines. However, as they've amused him, he leaves them with a gift — a glimpse at the fiction of the 20th Century, in the form of Martian tripods bringing about their destruction.

The Master knows the headband's technology will prove useful in the real world. He is briefly tempted to remain in the Land and use the headband's power to rule as a god. He dismisses this thought: he'd never be satisfied with a life of mere fiction...

Characters

 * Count Vlad Dracula
 * The Phantom of the Opera
 * Jas Hook
 * Robur the Conqueror
 * Dr. Moreau
 * Shere Khan
 * Mr Hyde
 * Professor Moriarty
 * Cerberus
 * The Invisible Man
 * Captain Nemo
 * Fu Manchu
 * A. J. Raffles
 * A. J. Raffles

Worldbuilding
to be added

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWM 311 (7)

Continuity
to be added