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After Midnight

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Appearances

Featured Characters:

  • Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
  • Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
  • Heroes for Hire
    • Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
    • Power Man (Luke Cage)
  • Moon Knight (Marc Spector)
  • Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
  • and/or original characters

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

  • Faces of Fear
    • Fixer (Norbert Ebersol)
    • Mentallo (Marvin Flumm)
    • Mister Fear (Alan Fagan)
    • Black Talon (Samuel Barone)
    • Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton)
    • Frankenstein's Monster
    • Night Shift:
      • Shroud (Max Coleridge)
      • Gypsy Moth (Sybil Dvorak)
      • Werewolf (Jack Russell)
      • Tatterdemalion (Arnold Paffenroth)
      • Brothers Grimm (Percy & Barton Grimes)
    • Yancy Street Gang
      • The Batboys
  • Maggia
    • Hammerhead
    • Blacklash (Mark Scarlotti)
    • Boomerang (Fred Myers)
    • Eel (Edward Lavell)
    • Scorpion (Mac Gargan)
    • Whirlwind (David Cannon)
  • Marauders
    • Arclight (Philippa Sontag)
    • Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)
    • Harpoon (Kodiak Noatak)
    • Vertigo
  • Mark IV Sentinels
  • Bartholomew Jacobs (Ghost)

Other Characters:

  • Artemis Hoot
  • Avengers (Referenced)
  • Black Talon I (Desmond Drew) (Referenced)
  • Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Referenced)
  • Champions of Los Angeles (Referenced)
  • CIA (Referenced)
  • Cult of Kali (Referenced)
  • Daily Bugle
    • J. Jonah Jameson (Referenced)
  • Daniel Rand's father (Referenced)
  • Daniel Rand's mother (Referenced)
  • Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
  • Dr. Farley Stillwell (Referenced)
  • Dr. Karl Malus (Referenced)
  • Dr. List
  • Dr. Peter Alraune (Referenced)
  • Dracula (Referenced)
  • Eel I (Leopold Stryke) (Referenced)
  • Egghead (Elihas Starr)
  • Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Referenced)
  • Frost International
  • Gladiator (Melvin Potter) (Referenced)
  • Grim Reaper (Eric Williams) (Referenced)
  • Harold Meachum (Referenced)
  • Harry the Met watchman
  • Jack Murdock (Referenced)
  • Jack, the Roarin' Twenties bartender
  • Jason Reed (Referenced)
  • Jimmy Biggies
  • Jonas Harrow (Referenced)
  • Judge Clayton
  • Julia Walker (Referenced)
  • Justin Hammer (Referenced)
  • Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder) (Referenced)
  • KGB (Referenced)
  • Khonshu (Referenced)
  • Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) (Referenced)
  • Lei Kung, the Thunderer (Referenced)
  • Lissa Russell (Referenced)
  • Mad Thinker
  • Marlene Alraune (Referenced)
  • Mayor of New York City
  • Mister Fear III (Lawrence Cranston) (Referenced)
  • Mr. Dodd
  • Mr. Waylan
  • New York City Police Department (Referenced)
  • Nurse Crandall
  • Project Wideawake
  • Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four
  • Reva Connors (Referenced)
  • Ronald Bushman (Referenced) (sic.)
  • Sam Evans
  • Savage Land Mutates (Referenced)
    • Brainchild (Referenced)
  • Secret Empire (Referenced)
  • Senator Edward Kelly (Referenced) (full name Robert Edward Kelly)
  • Shaw Industries (Referenced)
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. (Referenced)
    • Niels Nordstrom, SHIELD ESP Division (Referenced)
  • Shou-Lao the Undying (Referenced)
  • Sidney Sarnak (Referenced)
  • Spider-Woman (Referenced)
  • Stane International
  • Stick (Referenced)
  • SWF (SWAT)
  • Terminus (Referenced)
  • The Committee (Referenced)
  • the District Attorney
  • The Three Who Are All (Referenced)
  • Tinkerer (Phineas Mason)
  • Uncle Ben (Referenced)
  • unseen voice dealing with Jacobs (The Rulers of the Nether Realm)
  • Veronica Frankenstein (Referenced)
  • Victor Frankenstein (Referenced)
  • Willis Stryker (Referenced)
  • X-Men
    • Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Referenced)
    • Professor X (Charles Xavier )
    • Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Referenced)
  • Yu-Ti (Referenced)

Locations:

Items:

  • The Starfire Necklace
  • Vibranium
  • book A Madman's Mutterings (1690) by Bartholomew Jacobs
  • Fixer's hypnoporter machine
  • Spider-Man's Web-Shooters
  • Daredevil's Billy Club
  • Moon Knight's Ankh
  • Moon Knight's Bola
  • Moon Knight's Ivory Boomerang
  • Moon Knight's Lasso-Grapple
  • Moon Knight's Scarab Darts
  • Moon Knight's Throwing Irons

Vehicles:


Plot

Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Maximilian Pride asks the superheroes to help him find a grimorium that, per the security cameras, was stolen by superpowered beings. Pride's assistant Felicia Bifrost is suspicious of her own brother Johnny, of the street gang Flashing Blades; she is wrong, but the heroes follow that clue. They discover that several youthful street gangs are being raided by superpowered, monster-like criminals like the Werewolf - but whenever the heroes defeat one of these monsters, the villain simply vanishes. Rumor is that the local Maggia family, headed by Hammerhead, may be trying to expand their activities and remove the gangs -but this is false, as the heroes discover when one of them impersonates Hammerhead's poker game contact: Hammerhead is angry because some strangers are trying to force their way into his turf, and he feels compelled to hire some high-tech mercenaries (not monster-themed ones) for extra muscle. The monsters are mind-controlled stooges of a newly-created gang called Faces of Fear, ostensibly led by Mister Fear. Fear himself is a figurehead, puppetteered by the so-called "Big Boss" - The Fixer and Mentallo share this rank, that to their hypnoporter machine. The Faces of Fear are trying to manipulate the events, convincing the street gangs of Maggia being behind the monster attacks. They intend to cause a gang war that would remove Maggia from New York City, allowing the Faces to take over organized crime in the area. Although the heroes discover pieces of the puzzle, they are always one step behind the villains. During their quest, they are framed and harassed by the authorities; they stumble into a Project Wideawake secret base and confront the Sentinels; they face the ghost of the evil wizard who had written the missing book; they track a missing Wakanda jewel that the Black Panther may believe they have stolen; and they have a chance to help some Morlocks against the Marauders during the so-called Mutant Massacre. They also discover that both Felicia and Johnny Bifrost are superpowered mutants.

The heroes eventually prevent an open conflict in the streets of New York and stop Mister Fear and his monstruous minions; but cannot find the real Big Boss or his (their) wonderful machine.

Notes

An adventure for the Marvel Super Heroes Role-Playing Game.

Trivia

  • Described as "Part 1 of the stupendous Gang Wars Trilogy" on page 2; further installments talk about "the Gang Wars storyline" (instead of trilogy).
  • Black Talon's Background section in the Character Roster mentions that Desmond Drew was the original Black Talon, with this character (then unnamed) having taken over the same alias. This overlooks a previous Black Talon, Pascal Horta from pre-Marvel Timely's Captain America Comics #9 (1941).
  • An example action on page 2 describes how Spider-Man uses his Strength, which is, per the narrator, Amazing (50 points). This is a typo: Spider-Man's strength, as listed on page 6 of this book and in Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe #3, is only Incredible (40 points).
  • In the other parts of the saga, Moon Knight's equipment (Ankh, Bola, Ivory Boomerang, Lasso-Grapple, Scarab Darts, Throwing Irons) are reduced to only nunchakus and scarab darts.

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