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2010 - 2019

Philoso-Flea - A relatively new character to the MC Universe, Philoso-Flea is the all-knowing, all-seeing brains behind the T.O.R.N.A.T.O. top secret operation - as seen in the recent MC Universe live-action films.

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Skull Boy - Created 1948 / Reborn 2015

Skull Boy - A character born in 1948 out of the horrors of World War II was reborn in 2015 as a much more upbeat, happy Skull Boy. He always puts a positive spin on the worst of news. Based in Las Vegas, he is a constant thorn in the side of 'Poker Face.'

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The Forgotten 8 - Created 2012

The Forgotten 8 - It's a cruel world and sometimes Superheroes just die - especially when they suck.

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PRISM - A relatively new addition to the MC Comics Universe, PRISM is an awesome force of nature who uses the power of light to destroy the enemies of mankind. He has the ability to refract light that produces different weapons: Yellow = Lightning; Blue = Tidal Wave; Red = Heat, etc.

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2000 - 2009

Balloonatic - Once a prominent Boston cardiologist until his head was blown off by Gunshine in a country and western bar, Dr. Ball - now known as Balloonatic - was able to continue living with an experimental head replacement operation. Now the only thing left to live for is revenge.

Dr. Crossword - He is often described as a four-letter word meaning morally bad : wicked. : causing harm : tending to injure.

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Chimpanzebra (Manka Manga) - Created 2003

Chimpanzebra (Manka Manga) - MC Comics forms a Manga division to leverage that booming Japanese comic format to expand the reach of Manka Bros. IP. The first title was based on ‘Chimpanzebra’ - a character from the popular MBS ‘Animaltered’ animated series.

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1990 - 1999

Sherpent - This half-Sherpa / half-Serpent creature can help anyone find the secrets of the universe. But first, you have to find Sherpent - and second, you have to pay Sherpent. Good luck!

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Sue Nami - No beach is safe. No human is safe. Sue Nami doesn't care - she will destroy anyone in her path (except Cardinal Sin - for some reason, she is in love with him).

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Pecs Machina - This 3,000 foot body-building robot is always ready when a story needs some sort of ending. When things look hopeless, Pecs Machina steps in to destroy evil with a mighty flex or a fatal squat.

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Gunshine - The Gun rises in the East - and kills in the West.

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Everyman Comics - Created 1991

Everyman Comics - Short-lived comic book series about the 'warriors for the working day' - featuring a plumber, road construction guy, cashier, etc. Their superpower? Doing their everyday jobs.

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Twinvisible - Failed magicians because they couldn't figure out how to be invisible, they thought it would be easier to be superheroes. But when your superpower is invisibility and you aren't - you may be in trouble.

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1980 - 1989

Slacks - The top undercover informant for T.O.R.N.A.T.O. Slacks expects to be killed all the time, every day.

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Rotten Egg - Rebooted 1988 (Created 1968)

Rotten Egg - The first one to Hell is a Rotten Egg.

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Condiment King (Presented By Heinz) - Created 1987

Condiment King (Presented By Heinz) - An absolutely horrible limited comic book series sponsored by Heinz to promote various condiments - mainly ketchup, mustard and relish. That's enough said about that.

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Paindrops - Cardinal Sin summons the Paindrops to destroy all those who chose not to have umbrellas (sonic umbrellas). Only appeared twice in the Cardinal Sin universe but one of the most popular 'charachters' in the series.

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Baby S.E.A.L.S. - Created 1986

Baby S.E.A.L.S. - Created during the height of the Baby Seal genocide in the Arctic Circle, Baby S.E.A.L.S. are gun-totting vigilantes who have one goal - eliminate all the poachers. Eventually, they joined up with the Brown HAZE and Pebble Boy to expand their vengeance on a global scale.

Orange Crush (1986 Reboot from the 1968 Original) - After being kicked out of his childhood home for being the only 'Orange' Crush in a family of 'Green' Crushes, Orange Crush, after failing miserably at University of Michigan Law School, finds found his purpose in life - to crush things. Anything and everything. [Stan Lee and Marvel Comics attempted to sue MC Comics for stealing the concept and the art from 'The Fantastic Four' and The Thing. Manka Bros. lawyers told them to go 'fuck themselves' and we assume that's what they did.]

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Guydrant - Years ago, it was one of the top undercover informers in the T.O.R.N.A.T.O. universe, but after Guydrant's cover was blown in Issue 425, it has been relegated to being just a simple fire hydrant - at least for now.

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1970 - 1979

Buddha - The most powerful, yet peaceful, of them all. The Buddha comic book series was introduced in 1976 during the United State Bicentennial week to give American kids a powerful alternative to Jesus after the country started to emerge from the darkness of Watergate and Vietnam.

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Guyotine - If you cross him, he'll cut your head off.

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Concreture - After the skyscraper building boom of the early 1970s (World Trade Center, Sears Tower, etc.), Concreture was created to destroy the 'concrete jungle' society and return the world to a better, cleaner, healthier way of living. Concreture had a brief popularity in the mid-to late-1970s, even putting out a music single (on Manka Bros. Records) about the dangers of overpopulation and urbanization.

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The Jacobeans - Oh, so you decided to Time Travel to England in the early 17th Century to commit crimes? Bad idea.

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Captain Kansas - A favorite among boys in the midwest for many years, Captain Kansas fell out of favor after the family farm started to die in the 1980s (and his superpower wasn't very strong - the ability to grow crops fast).

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Sniper Ken - Created out of the horrors of the Vietnam War, Sniper Ken was a daily syndicated single-panel comic that ran for several years. The most controversial panel was on September 6, 1972 in which Sniper Ken assassinates Ho Chi Minh.

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Tarnado - Tarnado doesn't show up very often, but when it does just pray to Odin that Tarnado is on YOUR side.

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1960 - 1969

The Paste Eaters - Created 1969 (Spun-off from 'Rotten Egg' Comics

The Paste Eaters - ‘The Paste Eaters’ - villainous children who live to terrorize the good hard working people of small town suburbia - make their first appearance in ‘Rotten Egg’ comics issue #38.

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Rotten Egg - Created 1968 (Rebooted 1988)

Rotten Egg - Incredibly dark, incredibly violent comic book series that was a hit out of the gate and spun off the wildly successful 'The Paste Eaters' (which spun off a TV series and a few direct-to-video movies in the late 1980s).

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2 Of Clubs - A main villain in the 'Doctor Proctor' Universe. Based in Atlantic City, 2 of Clubs can throw a playing card with the deadly ferocity of a Ninja Star. (Little known fact: He is also an excellent cook.)

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Poker Face - Another villain in the 'Doctor Proctor' Universe. Based in Las Vegas, Poker Face has the same reaction whether he is torturing you, praising you or just simply killing you. (Little known fact: He was in the Las Vegas High School marching band, playing saxophone.)

Orange Crush - After being kicked out of his childhood home for being the only 'Orange' Crush in a family of 'Green' Crushes, Orange Crush, after failing miserably at University of Michigan Law School, finds found his purpose in life - to crush things. Anything and everything. (Rebooted in 1986 with a design some say resembled 'The Thing' from 'The Fantastic Four.' (Manka Bros. lawyers told the Marvel lawyers to 'fuck off' and that's what they did.)

Redcoat - In what has generously been described as 'not the Golden Age of MC Comics,' Redcoat was the most evil of the English soldiers in a series of American Revolution inspired comics.

Cardinal Sin - Created as a reaction to the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, Cardinal Sin has become one of the most iconic and frightening MC Comics villains, crossing over into several different multiverses and universes. No one EVER expects Cardinal Sin!

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Gray Goose - A strategic master for both good and evil. He can't be trusted but he can't be ignored. And don't ask him for strategy advice during afternoon tea.

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The Figmen - Thank God, we're saved! The Figmen are on their way (said no one ever).

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Pebble Boy - Following a nuclear bomb test on what was thought to be an isolated Oregon beach, it turned out several locals were killed, and all thought to be dead - until one boy rose from the bomb crater, beach pebbles smashed into his body. The radiation gave him super strength and the death of his family and friends gave him the resolve to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

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The Wig - Scandalous for 1962 (a man with long hair!), The Wig was a sensation amongst high school boys. Kids started to grow their hair long which lead right into the counter-culture movement of the mid - to late-1960s. The Wig fell out of favor by the early 1980s and has not, yet, been revived in the new MC Universe.

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1950 - 1959

Tin Pan Sally - Her cabaret act will sing you to death.

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The Clockmaster - Created 1956

The Clockmaster - He always knows what time it is! Truly one of more boring characters in the MC Comics library.

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Lou Tonium - MC Comics’ ‘Lou Tonium’ Issue #1 is released. In the story, the Mafia is trying to develop a hydrogen bomb. In a horrible chemical mix-up in the lab, mobster / scientist Lou Tonelli absorbs so much plutonium that HE becomes a hydrogen bomb… and the most powerful mobster in Chicago.

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1940 - 1949

Skull Boy - Created 1948 / Reborn 2015

Skull Boy - A character born in 1948 out of the horrors of World War II, reborn in 2015 as a much more upbeat, happy Skull Boy. He always puts a positive spin on the worst of news. Based in Las Vegas, he is a constant thorn in the side of 'Poker Face.'

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1930 - 1939

Phillip Jagstone - Created 1938

Phillip Jagstone - The hardboiled detective was featured in a long running comic strip, radio serial and short-lived TV series from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Captain Stoppo - Became the first breakout comic strip character after first appearing in the Detroit Free-Press. Captain Stoppo was widely syndication in the country's largest newspapers for nearly fifty years, spawing a hugely popular weekly radio show in the 1940s and a short-lived TV series in the 1960s.

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The Adjuster

Admiral Admirable

Air Pirates (Pirates On A Cessna)

The Amazing Echo

The Animal Jaguar

Annihilist

A.O. Che

Atmosfear

Auntie Maim

Badassifist

The Baffler

Banguish

Battle Tail

Biclops

BBW - Big Beautiful Weapon

Birkensock

The Black Mark

Blady Of The Night

Bodular

Boredoom

Brawlgirl

The Brown Haze

Brutaliteer

Bullet Points

Ca-Nun

Captain Albania

Captain Camouflage

Captain Freeball

Carbine Copy

Castastrofiend

Changel

The Checkered Pest

Chief Of Staff

Clawedball

Con-Juror

Crocodoll

Czechmate

Da Boss

Dare Trigger

Deadache

Diastolic

Dicku

Dimensa

Doctor Proctor

The Duchess Of Malfi

Dude Swing

Dumb Kirk

Electrick

The Environ-Mentalist

Fallen Star

Fast Feud

The Father

Fatomic

Fear By Four

The Felon

Flamer

Forcepower

Foregone Contusion

FryTech

Fulminot

Galbatross

Gamblur

The Ghost Of Hamlet's Father

Glandslide

Glucifer

Groan

Gruffian

The Guardener

Guilty Bystander

Guy Pressure

Hataclysm

The Heckler

Hellcyon

Hephinay

Herocious

Hexecutioner

Him Fatale

Hitronome

Hologrim

The Holy Ghost

The Human Jaguar

Hydrogen Bob

Isolution

The Jester

Johnny Crasp and The Lost Trood

Ka-BOMB!

Keystrike

The Killanthropist

Knock Knock

Ku Klux Klone

Lass Celing

Leaditor

The Liberal Spear

The Lifter

Lothario

Lou Tonium

Madaver

Madgician

Madgician's Rabbit

Malignimus

Manarchy

Manateen

Maneurism

Manibal

Mankite

Manopoly

Mantapreneur

Manvil

Marecal

The Masked Apparition

Maxident

Microfiche

Migroan

Miss Chief

Missipline

Monochrome

Mr. Mirror

Mutantneer

Mysteria (Missteria)

NASAssin

Nhonor

Ninechuck

Noflake

Noose Lips

Open Harms

The Obscurator

The Orthoducks

Panic Attract

Paper Tiger

Papier-Machete

Paragoon

Parole Model

Paste Eaters

Peril Lass

Pest Friend

The Planet 4

Portfolio

Powitzer

The Precipitator

Private Spectacle

Private Spy

Professor Chuck

Professor Pollen

The Psoriasist

Pundemic

Pusherman

Randoom

Ron Target

Sargeant Insurgent

The Saviator

Scarnivore

SegreGator

Shaim

Shorepedo

Shrillicon

Sinistar

Sir Squire

Slapshot

Slaydist

Smallecule

Smugly

Solarion

The Son

Stellar Nick

Stock Breaker

Stringler

StruGal

Stundra

Superheroes

Superscar

Systolic

Tarmoil

Tattoomb

The Therapist

Throwciologist

Tompact

Topcoat

Tragique

Tragitator

Trau-Man

The Tricktator

Twinvisible

Uncivil Servant

Uncle Knuckles

Utopium

Villuptuous

Whambedextrous

White Rabbit

The Wondertaker

Zaplock

Zigzag