The Hood

The Hood

Creator: Wayne Greenbaugh

Characters

Thanet Blake (P.I.)

Capt. Sebastian Holt (Police)

Dr. Gannon (Medic)

Rumpatt

Jake Slippery (Shyster Lawyer)

Aphrodite Morgano (ex-girlfriend)

Starla Smith (current girlfriend)

Isis Jones (weird woman)

Who is the hooded person the city knows as The Hood? All that’s known is the vigilante appeared after the death of a policeman rumored to be on the take. The Hood wears all black, including a hood. Blue eyes are all that’s visible. 6-foot, slim build, moves with feline grace, uses martial arts to take out four men at once.

Captain Sebastian Holt, the head detective, wants the vigilante brought to justice, and hires private detective Thanet Blake to use his underworld connections to discover The Hood’s identity.

Rumpatt is an old friend of Blake’s. A Vietnam veteran, he married Lotus before the war ended and they were separated. He’s trying to bring her over now. A bit weird, he dresses like Flash Gordon, and watches Saturday Matinee serials.

Isis Jones lives in the apartment next to Blake’s office, and owns the building. She has a shooting range in her room where she target practices with two .38 revolvers on targets attached to hay bails. She goes out at all hours of the night.

Starla Smith is Blake’s current flame, but they break up in this story.

Aphrodite Morgano was Blake’s girlfriend two decades previous when he was 18 and she was 24. Now she may be back.

Although Thanet Blake has been in many stories to-date, there has only been one story featuring The Hood (or Hooded Person).

“The Hooded Person” (2016) Devine Destinies

The Apparition

THE APPARITION

Creator: Wayne Greenough

Characters

Bryan Sloane

David Stryker

Police Lieutenant Jackson McCoy

Jordan

Edgar Wells

Mike Johnson

Alicia Johnson

Mr. Know

Professor Mobous Proctorius

The Apparition: A figure appeared in the doorway. The hooded shape in black wore a menacing hood, and a blood-curdling laugh chilled the bones of room’s occupants, and chiseled fear into their faces.

            Mobsters brought .45 automatics up to confront the intruder, and the room filled with gun smoke, the hooded figure firing a pair of old-fashioned six-shooters.

            When it was over, one dying hood gasped, “I shot you three times … you’re not human.”

            “I was once. Not anymore,” The Apparition said.

Bryan Sloane is a young billionaire. He had killed Nick Putty Stryker, the son of mob boss, David Stryker, in a fistfight. Attired in all black, suit, shirt, fedora and gloves, he was almost invisible at night. His automobile, a powerful Daimler, is also black. Behind the steering wheel, Sloane pressed a secret button, and a small compartment opened revealing a black costume and a black hood. The ominous darkness of the night was joined by Sloane’s laughter.

Police Lieutenant Jackson McCoy is a long time acquaintance of Sloane.

Professor Mobous Proctorius is an experimental scientist. The scientific community mocks his inventions. His nicknames among the scientific establishment are Mad Scientist, Crank, and Insane Madman, to name a few. He had turned Bryan Sloane into a zombie-like slave, but when the chemical wears off, Mobous is forced to kill the billionaire.

Jordan is Sloane’s butler, a giant of a man, but suffers from ulcers.

Edgar Wells is about 35. The death of his wife leaves him a wreck; now The Apparition wants Edgar to work for him. He is to care for, and assist Alicia.

Mike Johnson was the original Apparition. He was shot down, and died in the streets.

Alicia Johnson, Mike’s granddaughter was helping him walk the day he was killed, and she was gunned down, her spine shattered. She now must live in a wheelchair. She is a lovely young woman, with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Mr. Know always wears a gray suit; shirt, tie, socks, and shoes. He has piercing blue eyes, and pure white hair. Perhaps an angel, he offers a favor for a favor.

I’m not going to identify The Apparition, as I’m sure the author plans to build on the characters in future stories. I’ll just say there were numerous plots and character twists in the story, but with a little thought you should be able to make the right choice.

There has only been one story so for:

“The Apparition” (Devine Destinies) February 14, 2016.

Mask

Mask

Creator: Wayne Greenough

Characters

Mask

Missouri

Wrangler

Roger Blake

Pete (Bartender)

Smithy (Blacksmith)

Sebastian Jones (Newspaper Owner)

Doc Dakota

The Waddy Bushwhackers

Captain Crawford (Rangers)

Tex

Jack Dugay

         “He who looks upon her true beauty shall forever be enslaved.”

The lawless town of Dead’s Man’s Town is ruled over by Jack Dugay, a bull-shaped, bloodshot black eyes and bushy eyebrows of an hombre. He face was covered with a black beard showing gray streaks, and he was fast on the draw, and had killed many men in gunfights.

         Fighting Dugay and his outlaws is a beautiful woman wearing a black domino mask. Only called Mask, she has short wavy black hair well combed and soft. She wears a long sleeved red shirt, and has green eyes that flash fire. She wears a pair of .44s on her hips, and is lightening fast on the draw with both hands. She is also the saloon singer known as Missouri. Her voice is sensuous and low, melodic.

         Wrangler is Mask’s cook, livestock handler, crop raiser, bullet maker, and sometimes sawbones when needed. He has white, unkempt hair, and dressed in leather shirt and homespun trousers. Wrangler is shy of six foot by a couple of inches, and light of weight. He is also lighting fast with a gun. He raised the young girl who would become Mask after her parents were killed by Jack Dugay.

         Roger Blake had been an outlaw and gunslinger before joining the Rangers. Captain Crawford assigned him to bring law and order to Dead Man’s Town, and bring in the notorious Mask, dead or alive. But was he fast enough to take her, and did he really want to?

         Tex rides tall in the saddle. He has black eyes.

         There has only been one story so far, but another is being written.

“Mask” (DEVINE DESTINIES)

Champion of Justice and Freedom

Champion of Justice and Freedom

Creator: Wayne Greenough

Characters

Tate Twilliger

Nickels O’Brian (Mountain)

Proscilla

Grandpa

            Tate Twilliger is in the 7^th Grade. He has watched all the old Republic serials with Grandpa, and wants to be a hero. Taking on the guise of Champion of Justice, at first he merely wears an old Army helmet, but everyone knows who he is, so soon he dumps the relic.

            Nickels O’Brian is big and dumb, and the school bully. When Tate sees him bullying the beautiful Priscilla, he puts on the helmet and becomes Champion of Justice and goes to her rescue. When O’Brian pushes him down, Tate’s leg comes up connecting with the Mountain’s knee and sends O’Brian to the floor in tears.

            “My hero!” Pricilla says, kissing Tate on the cheek.

            Priscilla is super gorgeous with long blond hair, and flashing green eyes.

            Nickels O’Brian is a mountain of a boy, thus his nickname; but he wants people to like him, and joins Tate as Freedom. Now they are a super team, but every time they go to the rescue, it seems to backfire, and they are the ones who get in trouble.

            These are new pulp heroes for ages 7 to 14. One story has been published, but more are planned. This story was written in something of a 12-chapter cliffhanger, like the old Republic serials.

Champion of Justice and Freedom (Musa Publication)