Vulture (Earth-One)

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"If I ever hope to smash VULTURE, I’m afraid I’ll have to go on masquerading as Marco Xavier for some time to come!"

--Martian Manhunter

Official Team Names: VULTURE
Team Nicknames: No known nicknames
Former Team Aliases: No known former aliases
Other Current Team Aliases: No other known current aliases

Status

Team Status: Inactive
Team Identity: Secret
Base of Operations: Base of operations unknown

Organization

Team Leader: Mister Vulture
Active Members: Active members unknown
Former Members: Former members unknown
Known Allies: No known Allies
Known Enemies: Martian Manhunter

Origin

Place of Formation: The French Riviera
Place of Deformation: Unknown
First Appearance: House of Mystery #160
Final Appearance: House of Mystery #173
Origin: The organization known as VULTURE (not an acronym) was a vast international crime cartel that was infiltrated, thwarted and eventually completely destroyed by J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. Their secretive leader utilized a number of different aliases including: Mister Vulture, Mister V, and Faceless (a.k.a. Marco Xavier).

History

History: Shortly after retiring his John Jones persona, J'onn came into conflict with cartel operatives when he traveled to the French Riviera. While in the Riviera, he investigated Marco Xavier, an international playboy with supposed links to organized crime. He used his shape-shifting powers to follow Xavier as he left his villa in a high-powered sports car. Xavier lost control of the vehicle and it plunged off a mountain road, apparently killing him in the process, his body consumed by the blazing crash. J'onnz took advantage of the accident by quickly transforming himself into a Xavier lookalike, and then dangled himself from the branch of a cliffside tree before the police could arrive. The disguised "Marco Xavier" was taken to his villa to recover. Slowly but surely, using his disguise as Marco Xavier, the Martian Manhunter worked his way up through the cartel, while maintaining the original Marco's role as an outside contractor uninterested in joining VULTURE. Eventually, J'onn managed to bring the organization down while working on the inside.

Statistics

Total Members: Total number of members unknown
Total Allies: Total number of allies unknown
Total Enemies: Total number of enemies unknown

Miscellaneous

Equipment: No known equipment.
Transportation: No known transportation.
Weapons: No known weapons.

Notes

The VULTURE cartel was created by Jack Miller and Joe Certa.

VULTURE is not to be confused with the Vulture, a Silver Age Batman foe and member of the Terrible Trio.

Although Marco Xavier also went by the alias of V and Mr. V, he is not to be confused with the Alan Moore/David Lloyd anarchist character, V.

Trivia

None

External Links

VULTURE profile at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe

References

VULTURE article at Wikipedia
Comic Book Resources (Review; original text)