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Herb and his wife Sheila used the same Harlequin Hit-Man identity.

Sheila and Herb Hollister once lived in Springdale and were friends of Justin Baldwin, Maddie Naylor, and Alex Bow. At some point they left Springdale working as hitmen, while posing as a single person, the Harlequin Hit Man.

The Harlequin Hit Man was hired by Nathan Boder, following a chain of blackmailers who would have been able to incriminate Mr. Boder. The Hit-Man forced each one to give the name of someone else who had information. In the meantime, as Herb and Sheila, they rekindled their friendships with Justin Baldwin and Maddie Naylor.

When Philip Barton gave the name of Emil Conroy and brother were killed a clerk at the County Courthouse who had evidence against Boder and had been working with Conroy was afraid he would be next. He set up a meeting with Justin Baldwin, planning to tell him everything. The Hit Man shows up at the meeting and knocked out Baldwin as he arrived.

Speedball showed up in time to save his father, but the clerk is shot and killed. Speedball knocked out the Hit-Man, only to be attacked by another. He dispatches them both, and leaves before Justin wakes up to unmask the Hit-Men, and find out they are his friends. Both are taken to jail, but they were successful in their job and nobody is left to incriminate their boss.[citation needed]

Herb and Sheila were brainwashed by the "Ghost in the Telephone", and sent to kill Moon Knight's Shadow Cabinet. They killed five members before he stopped them. His therapist Andrea Sterman confirmed what had happened to them.[1]

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Skilled with pistols.

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