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The Titular Werewolves
Jack Russell / Werewolf by Night
Jack Russell / Werewolf by Night
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #2 (1972)
Victim of an ancient family curse, Jack Russell struggled for years with his bestial alter-ego. But over time has conquered his inner demons. Now he fights the dark forces that plague our world. He is an enforcer of justice, an avenger of shadows, and a Werewolf By Night.
- '70s Hair: Jack (logically) sports it in his appearances during the 70s, but sometimes goes back to it in later years, notably in Witches #1 (2004) and X-Factor #242 (2012).
- '90s Anti-Hero: Jack developed shades of this after Marvel Comics Presents #54-59 in 1990. He sported longer hair, rode a motorcycle, wore a leather jacket with nothing under it, and suddenly started using colloquialisms. His attitude changed accordingly, from a guy suffering under his curse to reveling in it. After volume 2 he kept the hair and the motorcycle, but The Dark Age of Comic Books was shed.
- The Alcoholic: In WbN volume 2 Jack drowns his sorrows about the curse in large quantities of booze. He even drinks while driving a car.
- Angst: After nearly killing Buck Jack’s mood progressively edges towards suicidal. Things start to look up again, until he hits absolute rock-bottom in WbN volume 2.
- Big Brother Instinct: Whether he's man or beast he's very protective towards his little sister.
- Break the Cutie: In the time between volumes 1 and 2 the curse breaks Jack beyond recognition.
- Character Development: Jack has been around since 1972 and has changed quite dramatically over the years. A wide-eyed teenager dragged into all kinds of supernatural mayhem against his will (1970s) → a leather-clad motorcycle riding Anti-Hero living life to the fullest (late 80s-early 90s) → a downtrodden alcoholic doing everything in his power not to have to face reality (late 90s) → a suicidal hotheaded Jerkass looking for a fight (late 2000s) → a pleasant guy looking after monsters when the rest of the world would rather kill them (early 2010s).
- Deadpan Snarker: Jack is one, usually in combination with Self-Deprecation.
- Depending on the Artist: Jack's werewolf form varies depending on whose drawing him, most artists have him resemble Lon Chaney Jr, while some give him a more wolf like head. When he showed up in X-Factor he was given a tail.
- The Drifter: Though his home base is Los Angeles, Jack never stays in one place for very long.
- Enemy Within: As mentioned in X-Factor #224, human Jack vs werewolf Jack is a constant struggle.
- Fake Defector: His stint with the Night Shift is a case of this, especially considering one of his old foes, Tatterdemalion, was also on the team.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Jack mostly uses "stinking" to express displeasure. Possibly justified by his heightened senses, particularly smell, and his human mores remaining in effect. "Stinking" could well become quite the pejorative term if you really know how foul something smells.
- I Am a Monster: It varies, but Jack occasionally sees himself as this. Other times he is more accepting of himself, crossing over into I Am What I Am; often he fluctuates between the two.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Finding a cure for his condition is what drives Jack in most of his adventures. Even though in Tomb of Terror #1 he admits he sees his werewolf side as his true self and loves the freedom it comes with, he still wants it to end.
- Informed Ability: Many of Jack's powers and abilities as described in the Official Marvel Handbooks are never shown in-story. For example, it's said Jack is a practiced magic user who often casts spells, yet he is only shown doing so one single time (in Marvel Comics Presents #54).
- Limited Wardrobe: While the shirt or jacket he wears (if he wears one) may differ, it seems Jack has stocked his wardrobe to the brink with green pants.
- Magic Pants: Jack manages to ruin his clothes with alarming regularity, but in the majority of cases his pants stay firmly on.
- Meaningful Name: A Jack Russell Terrier is a breed of dog.
- The Nicknamer: Especially Morbius is on the receiving end of this in later years: Morb, Mikey-boy, M., Dracubilly... Ironically, in Morbius v2, Morbius responds to someone else calling him "Mike" with "I prefer Michael".
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Jack inherited the curse from his father, and is forced to change during the three nights a month the moon is full. His werewolf self grows progressively more violent over time, and the pain that accompanies the transformation increases with each full moon. He eventually gains some control over the change with the help of The Three Who Are All, enabling him to transform outside the full moon as well. For a while this control extends to no longer having to change at all during the full moon and retaining his mind at all times, but those days don’t last.
Initially the werewolf looks like a typical wolfman à la Lon Chaney Jr. Starting with Moon Knight #29 (1982), his appearance becomes more wolfish, still standing on two legs but with a fully lupine head. This change is explained as his werewolf self regressing ever further after an experiment to gain more control went badly. - Painful Transformation: Until he is helped by The Three Who Are All, each transformation is more painful than the last. And it’s not just on a physical level: Jack describes part of the transformation as if his soul is being ripped apart. After he gains control of, the changes become more bearable. But then the full moons come with the added side-effect of glimpsing hell.
- Punny Name: A jack russell is a kind of terrier. But Jack is a nickname for Jacob and Russell is the Americanized equivalent of his ancestorial name, Rusoff, so it’s not like his parents intentionally named him after a dog.
- Redhead In Green: The red-furred werewolf runs around in torn-up green pants a lot.
- Resist the Beast: Jack often tries this while subject to involuntary transformations brought on by the full moon; sometimes it works, usually it doesn't.
- Self-Deprecation: A habit of Jack’s. Upon changing into a werewolf through the sheer force of will for the first time: “It might’ve been the ugliest one on record, but it was still a miracle.”
- Slasher Smile: Jack is quite capable of them, especially in WbN volume 2. Even more so if he couples it with a couple of razor-sharp teeth.
- Stages of Monster Grief: Jack goes from denial to anger to acceptance to seeing his condition as a blessing to self-destruction and back again. In Marvel Zombies 4 #3 he claims he’s gone through all five stages of grief and has finally reached acceptance. Teammate Morbius thinks he simply no longer cares whether he lives or dies.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Due to his transformations, Jack spends half of the time shirtless.
- Walking the Earth: Jack mostly rides his motorbike across North America but ends up in Italy on at least one occasion.
- Wolf Man: How wolf-like Jack's werewolf form looks fluctuates, but he always retains somewhat human proportions, and walks on two legs. Other werewolves, even those subject to the same curse such as Jack's niece Nina, may look much more wolf-like.
Jake Gomez / Werewolf by Night
Jake in his human and wolf form
First Appearance: Werewolf By Night Vol.3 (2020)
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: An Indigenous American taking the mantle of Werewolf By Night.
Supporting Characters
Buck Cowan
Buck Cowan
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #4 (1972)
Best friend of Jack Russell. A reporter and former screen play writer.
- Intergenerational Friendship: He's in his forties while Jack is eighteen when they first meet.
- Intrepid Reporter: His job. He met Jack while he was researching the Darkhold for an article on the occult.
- Token Human: The only normal human in the main group.
Lissa Russell
Lissa Russell
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #2 (1972)
Sister of Werewolf By Night and mother of Vampire By Night.
- Brought Down to Normal: Loses her Lycanthropy after her second transformation.
- Heat Vision: Her Weredemon form can shoot jets of fire from its eyes.
- Hypnotic Eyes: In her Weredemon form.
- Morality Pet: Serves as this to her older brother, even his wolf form is surprisingly gentler when around her.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: To describe her costume's neckline as "plunging" would be a massive understatement. It ends just above her crotch.
- Our Werebeasts Are Different: Exposure to the magical energies weilded by villain Dr Glitternight during her first transformation turned her into a Weredemon.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears completely after a while.
Nina Price/Vampire By Night
Nina Price
First Appearance: Amazing Fantasy Vol 2 #10 (2005)
Werewolf By Night's niece, like her uncle she inherited the Russoff family curse on her eighteenth year, but she was also attacked by a vampire transforming into a hybrid of the two kinds of monster. She is a recurring member of the monster team of Howling Commandos.
- Badass Longcoat: Wears one made of red leather.
- Missing Reflection: Her vampire powers make her unable to cast a reflection (which makes it impossible for people to take her picture at night).
- Vampiric Werewolf: Nina is a hybrid of a vampire and a werewolf, and possesses a combination of all vampire and werewolf powers and abilities after sunset.
Phillip Russell
Phillip Russell
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #2 (1972)
Jack's stepfather whom he barely gets along with, and the feeling seemed mutual. Later, revealed to be the younger brother of Jack's birth father and their relationship rapidly improved.- Parental Substitute: After he comes clean to his stepchildren about how he's their parental uncle their relationship noticably improves to the point Jack calls him "Dad".
- Wicked Stepfather: How Jack's view of him started off but eventually they moved past it.
Raymond Coker
Raymond Coker
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #1 (1973)
Raymond Coker is a Jamaican immigrant once cursed with lycanthropy.
- Bash Brothers: His and Jack's wolf forms view each other in a much friendlier light then their human forms after fighting a pair of vampires together.
- Foreshadowing: His werewolf status was hinted at from his first appearance with him carrying books on the subject, sitting cross-legged in his apartment in his underwear with incense burning to perform the spell that keeps him form changing and getting angry at Jack for simply asking him about werewolves.
- Palette Swap: His wolf form is essentially Jack's but with red eyes and black fur.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Werewolf Jack against a pair of vampires, made harder that the former's wolf form works on simple instinct while Raymond retains some control of his transformed state or at least for a brief time.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: His shirts had a habit of being torn during his transformation, and his preferred spell for some reason always had to be performed while he was shirtless.
Topaz
Topaz
First Appearance: Werewolf By Night #13 (1974)
A young woman born with incredible magical powers. She becomes Jack's companion and lover.
- Familiar: Was one for her adoptive father Taboo and later forced to be one for Maria Russoff.
- Horrifying the Horror: Her power is so great Dracula is scared of her.
- The Kid with the Leash: She can calm Jack in his wolf form and keep him somewhat under control.
- Telepathy: One of her main powers.
Enemies
Aelfric the Mad Monk
Aelfric the Mad Monk
Alter Ego: Aelfric
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #3 (1973)
A twelfth century monk who turned his back on God to devote himself to Satan, and author of the arcane scrolls that became the Darkhold. Burned at the stake in 1149, his spirit lived on to wreak havok in the twetieth century.
- Expy: Of Abdul Alhazred, author of the Necronomicon in the Lovecraft Mythos.
- Grand Theft Me: His spirit possesses the body of Ramón Jóquez, a priest Jack Russell asked to help translate the Darkhold.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A Villain of the Week but his actions resulted in most of the events of the series. He wrote the scrolls of black magic that centuries later amateur warlock Baron Gregor Russoff would bind together into the Darkhold. An action that would result in the awakening of the dormant lycanthropy curse in his bloodline that he would pass on to his son and daughter. He also created other magical artifacts including a pair of rings that would allow their wearer to transform into a werewolf at will.
Agatha Timly
Agatha Timly
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #3 (1972)
Agathanote was a wannabe occultist who captured Jack in order to find the ancient spellbook Darkhold, which used to be in his father's possession.
- Psychic Powers: She has some telepathic skills, which able her to sense Jack's transformation to his Werewolf form after he escapes from her clutches.
- The Unfought: After the deaths of her husband Nathan and her assistant Kraig, she tried to do a magical incantation without the help of the Darkhold, and ends up burning to death.
Atlas
Atlas
Alter Ego: Steve Rand
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #22 (1974)
Rand was an actor in Hercules-esque movies who is now out of touch with reality, confusing himself and others with the roles from his last movie, and is out to get those he thinks is responsible for the accident that left him scarred.
- Badass Normal: He proves to be so strong that the Werewolf has to actually run away from him.
- Bad with the Bone: His character used a jawbone of an ass as a weapon, and so does he.
- Bald of Evil: Justified because all of his hair has burned away.
- The Brute: Tall, strong and out of his mind.
- Nightmare Face: His face burned badly, leaving him with no lips, a left Mad Eye and strips of flesh covering his right one.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's essentially an insane, disfigured version of Steve Reeves, the star of a series of 1950s Hercules movies.
- Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: He went insane after a botched stunt took away his handsome features.
Belaric Marcosa
Belaric Marcosa
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #34 (1975)
Marcosa was an evil aristocrat who used his status to hold parties that would end in a slaughter, and steal his victims' souls afterwards. His soul still resides in his old house, and torments anyone who steps inside.
- Artificial Limbs: He has a wooden right leg with talons on it.
- Captain Ersatz: He is a thinly-veiled version of Emeric Belasco, the villain of the novel Hell House by Richard Matheson. The story plays out rather similarly, too, with the exception that there is now a werewolf in it and the novel's anti-psychic machine is replaced by Topaz's powers.
- Combat Tentacles: He turns his hands into tentacles when he is finally forced into physical combat with Jack.
- Ghostly Goals: To be a dick even after death.
- Manipulative Bastard: He uses illusions of his victims' loved ones to torment them further.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: He steals the souls of his victims to gain more power.
The Committee
The Committee
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #10 (1973)
A group of Los Angeles-area business people who support various menaces and engage in criminal activity for their own benefit.
- Arc Welding: They're used to explain away the Cliffhanger at the end of the original Werewolf by Night series when some of the characters turn up in Spider-Woman.
- Artistic License – Economics: Their initial motivation was stated as promoting supervillains and supernatural creatures, with the rational that the resulting fear and terror in order to somehow induce higher levels of consumer spending. It's a Zig-Zagged Trope, as some of their appearances present this as a Motivational Lie by their leaders, who actually want supernatural power for themselves, but most of their appearances treat the economic motivation as the real one.
- Big Bad: They serve as this across the original Werewolf by Night series, since they're blackmailing Jack's stepfather, sponsor a number of the villains, and repeatedly send various mercenaries to capture the Werewolf for their own purposes.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Most of the members are apparently local businesspeople who believe their criminal activities will drive up spending.
- Depending on the Writer: Even within the original Werewolf by Night series, their stated leaderhsip and motivations changed several times.
- The Man Behind the Man:
- They serve as this for Sarnak, Tatterdemalion, the Enforcer, and Moon Knight, though the latter is really infiltrating them to destroy them.
- At one point, Baron Thunder is introduced as the Man Behind the Man to the whole Committee, but after he dies, the Committee continues to turn up.
- The Mole: They were eventually infiltrated and destroyed by Moon Knight and his partner Frenchie, who made them think Moon Knight was their newest henchman in their quest to capture the Werewolf.
- Nebulous Evil Organization: A shadowy cabal of businessmen and assorted maniacs who terrorize Los Angeles for shifting reasons.
- Retcon: When Moon Knight first shows up, he's presented at face value, as a mercenary named Marc Spector who turns against the Committee. When Moon Knight was spun off into his own series, this was revised so that his ally Frenchie tricked the Committee into thinking they'd created the Moon Knight identity, which he had already adopted, as party of his scheme to infiltrate them.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Thanks to their role in Moon Knight's fake origin and first appearances in Werewolf by Night, they carried over to Moon Knight's own Spin-Off series.
DePrayve
DePrayve
Alter Ego: Dr. Winston Redditch
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #24 (1974)
Dr. Redditch was a scientist who sought create a way to suppress the aggressive portions of human brain. When he tries the mixture of his creation for that purpose, he chooses the wrong beaker that does the exact opposite and is turned into hulking brute who names himself DePrayve.
- The Brute: DePrayve is a big brute who likes to brutalize.
- Card-Carrying Villain: "DePrayve is evil!"
- For the Evulz: DePrayve rants about two things: revelling in evil is fun and how sickening his good side is.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Winston, a nice guy scientist who seeks to make the world a better place and DePrayve, all the evil in Winston unleashed who seeks to spread misery and destruction for fun.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: DePrayve chose to call himself that because he "is depraved". Simple as that.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Deciding that testing on animals is not enough, Winston decided to test his findings with himself unfortunatly his wife had moved the chemicals he was using around while he was distracted.
- Superpowered Evil Side: DePrayve is physically stronger than his good side Winston.
Dr. Glitternight
Dr. Glitternight
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #27 (1975)
An evil sorcerer who seeks to kill everyone in the world and turn their souls into a personal demon army. He was formerly a member of the Five-Who-Are-All, a group of mystical cosmic beings who banished him from their ranks.
- Bald of Evil: And he has a slightly larger chranium than a normal human's, since he is actually a former cosmic being.
- Big Bad: Of Werewolf by Night vol. 1, as his plans pose a threat to the entire humanity.
- Chest Blaster: He shoots beams of "black light" out of his chest to harm his opponents.
- Entertainingly Wrong: He thinks the Werewolf was a demon created and sent by Taboo to kill him.
- Evil Sorcerer: He is a practitioner of dark mystic arts.
- Monochromatic Eyes: His eyes constantly alternate between black and white.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: He calls himself doctor. Doctor of what, nobody knows.
- Satanic Archetype: He's eventually revealed to be a corrupted member of the cosmic entities the Five-Who-Are-All, tossed out for his evil, and he extracts and corrupts souls.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: He has an ability to steal souls, which he uses to bind their owners to his will and create demons.
Dr. Kalbfleisch
First Appearance: Dead of Night Featuring: Werewolf by Night #1
The leader of the Babylon Group, and the Big Bad of the non-canonical Marvel Max title Dead of Night Featuring: Werewolf by Night. A scientist who captures and studies "inter-species" people, like the werewolf Jack Russell and his sister, Jenny.
- Covert Group: As Kalbfleisch explains it, the Babylon Group is affiliated with the United States government (which provides it with specimens, like Jack and Jenny) but not actually apart of it, instead acting as a kind of secret R&D division for pharmaceutical concerns all over the Earth.
- Fatal Flaw: His shortsightedness, at least when it came to the Russells. His leniency and simple carelessness due to desperation and scientific curiosity basically caused one big line of Disaster Dominoes.
- Gilded Cage: His offer to Jack and Jack's daughter, and presumably any other animal people who could be reasoned with, as he mentions that some of them are with the Babylon Group simply because they "have nowhere else to go."
- Godzilla Threshold: He lets the Babylon Group's two most dangerous patients, a Frankenstein's Monster-like being and a vampire-like man, out of their rooms to try and stop Jack, because they were only ones who stood any chance at all of slowing down "that unholy thing" (Jack).
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: His methods are extreme, but have led to revolutionary medical breakthroughs, and while Jack is the protagonist, his werewolf alter-ego is a monster who has slaughtered a lot of innocent people all over the country, and a few of the Babylon Group's patient-prisoners included obviously very dangerous superhumans like a psychotic who responded to any noise with gruesome violence, a man who Eats Babies, and Jack's sister, Jenny, who, despite being portrayed sympathetically, still murdered literally everyone in her hometown (from babies to the elderly, many of whom she "sampled" while they were still alive) when her powers manifested for the first time in 1983.
- Indy Ploy: Jack having a fiancée and Jenny killing her when she was let loose to find Jack were unexpected developments, but Kalbfleisch decided to roll with it and make the best of a bad situation by having his agents scour the city for Jack, follow him, and then just call 911 as soon as Jack got home, with the expectation being that Jack would be too distraught over his lover's death to resist being arrested, at which point the Babylon Group could just swoop in and take custody of Jack, with Kalbfleisch noting, "No one wonders about a murderer once he disappears into the legal system." This did not work out, as Jack did resist arrest and flee the scene, attracting unwanted attention and forcing Kalbfleisch's agents to resort to finding and dismantling Jack's saferoom to force Jack to turn himself over to the Babylon Group.
- Morton's Fork: One of his agents, acting of her own accord, gave Jack the choice of turning himself in peacefully, but also dismantled Jack's saferoom, so Jack would have no choice but to turn himself in or risk people being hurt or killed by the Werewolf.
- My Greatest Failure: He appears to consider Jack this, lamenting that not stepping in sooner led to the Werewolf killing Jack's adoptive parents and Jack disappearing, with the Babylon Group wasting years searching for him as he uncontrollably killed people all over the US before finally gaining the means to settle down and build a saferoom in Philadelphia.
- Pet the Dog: He could have just taken baby Jack after he and Jenny were handed over to him by the government after Jenny's massacre of their hometown, but the chances of Jack actually being a werewolf (which are mainly female) were so low that Kalbfleisch instead decided to just give Jack to loving parents, the Russoffs, with no strings attached other than having the Russoffs bring Jack in every month or so to donate blood (which was used to keep Jenny alive after her battle with the authorities) and partake in unexplained tests; it was only when Jack started showing definitive signs of lycanthropy as a teenager that Kalbfleisch decided that Jack should be taken in, as allowing him to continue living normally would be too risky, a decision which is hard to argue with given that Jack did end-up turning into the Werewolf and slaughtering the Russoffs (among many others who somehow pissed it off) due to a misunderstandingnote when the Russoffs decided not to give Jack back to the Babylon Group.Kalbfleisch: When we found your parents, we were heartbroken. All of those years watching you grow into a young man, unaware of your capabilities, only to have them manifest like this... well, we could have helped you.
- Later:
Jack: You lied to me, Doc. All of you. You should have told me the truth about—
Kalbfleisch: You're right. We should have. And we're going to make up for it now. - Playing with Syringes: He keeps "inter-species" people in either medically-induced comas (though he claims that most of them have little in the way of consciousness to speak of anyway due to their warped physiologies, which is why so many of them die in the womb) or cells, and experiments on them For Science!.
- Spanner in the Works:
- He did not expect the Russoffs to become as attached to Jack as they did, so when he informed them that he would have to take Jack back once Jack started showing definitive symptoms of lycanthropy, the Russoffs tried to run away with Jack, which gave the Werewolf the time and the stressor (it thought that the Russoffs were going to kill it) that it needed to manifest for the first time and, unfortunately, kill the Russoffs.
- He let Jenny loose in a desperate attempt to find Jack, but did not expect her to instead go after Jack's pregnant fiancée, Cassandra (since he had no way of knowing that she even existed). His team subdued the frenzied Jenny, but failed to save Cassandra, and only just barely managed to save her and Jack's daughter.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He keeps "inter-species" people either locked up or catatonic, but the Babylon Group's studying of them has led to revolutions like cures for Polio and Diphtheria, and he believes that continued research will help them achieve "so much more."
Hangman
Hangman
Alter Ego: Harlan Krueger
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #11 (1973)
As a kid, Harlan grew to idolize silver screen heroes, and wanted to fight evil just like them. He however developed an extremely black-and-white view of the world, and became a vigilante when no law-enforcement agency wanted to hire him.
- Badass Normal: Despite lacking any super-powers, he's outright beaten a werewolf and the original Spider-Woman in combat.
- Black-and-White Insanity: You're bad in any sense of the word? You'll meet the Hangman.
- Death by Irony: After switching his methods to wiping out "bad influences" on society by killing the cast and crew of a slasher movie, he's stabbed to death with his own scythe by a film critic who had unwittingly fed him information.
- Evil Reactionary: He tends to go on about how modern culture promotes moral decay, and sees himself as enforcing the old-fashioned morality he learned from the movies of his youth. At one point, he started killing the creators of a modern Slasher Movie, seeing them as agents of moral decay.
- In the Hood: He wears a hood fashioned after ones worn by medieval executioners.
- The Jailer: He imprisons women to "protect from corruption of the outside world".
- Knight Templar: He wants to rid the world of evil, but doesn’t believe in that pesky thing called ‘the law’. He was even court-martialed because he killed Nazis a little too gleefully during World War II.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: After Werewolf by Night ended, he moved on to hassling the Jessica Drew incarnation of Spider-Woman.
- Sinister Scythe: His weapon of choice along with his trusty noose.
- Sociopathic Soldier: He was dishonorably discharged for torturing prisoners of war. Unusually, he was originally presented as a sociopathic, disgraced World War II veteran.
- Would Not Hit a Girl: See Knight Templar above. This leads to his death when he accidentally kills a woman, leaving him too overwrought to notice someone sneaking up behind him.
Kraig
Kraig
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #3 (1972)
Agatha's misshapen right-hand man, who obeys her every order.
- Artificial Limbs: He lost his right hand due to an unknown incident, and had it replaced with an artificial one with sharp metal talons.
- Berserk Button: If he thinks he's being laughed at, he'll lash out at the supposed perpetrator.
- The Dragon: To Agatha, since she provided him with his new right hand and doesn't "laugh" at him.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He is killed by an errant lightning bolt striking his metallic hand, which he had raised to slay the Werewolf.
- Third-Person Person: He refers to himself by his own name.
Marlene Blackgar
Marlene Blackgar
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #4 (1972)
Miles's daughter who was born a Mutant.
- And I Must Scream: Victims of her gorgon like gaze remain conscious within their stone prisons, this is the fate that befalls her and her father.
- Daddy's Little Villain: She became much more devoted to her father after he almost died in the hands of the Werewolf.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When she tries to turn the Werewolf into stone the second time, she doesn't realize that he's standing on front of a mirror until it is too late and she and her father are turned into stone instead.
- Monochromatic Eyes: She has blank white eyes.
- Mutant: Of the rare variety whose powers are active from birth.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Inherited from her father.
- Sinister Shades: She hides her deadly eyes behind a pair of sunglasses.
- Taken for Granite: She has the power to turn people into stone with her gaze and they're still conscious within the stone.
Maxwell Grant
Maxwell Grant
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #2 (1972)
The chauffeur of Jack's step-father, who blackmailed him and his wife on orders from The Committee.
- The Brute: Grant is one head taller than everyone else, and Jack thinks that he is probably strong enough to kill a man with his bare fists. He even manages to give the Werewolf a good thrashing before losing his composure upon realizing that he isn't fighting someone in a costume.
- Starter Villain: Even with his strength, Maxwell is just a human bully squeezing money out of his employer. He ends up dying in his introductory issue.
Miles Blackgar
Miles Blackgar
First Appearance: Marvel Spotlight #4 (1972)
A scientist who bought Castle Russoff from Jack's step-father and moved it to an island in his possession to do his research in peace.
- And I Must Scream: The fate of both him and his daughter after her gorgon like gaze is cast back at them trapping them as statues.
- Evil Cripple: He's confined to a wheelchair after the Werewolf throws him out of a window.
- Mad Scientist: He experiments on people in his castle laboratory on an isolated island transforming them into monstruous, deformed freaks.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Combines a color and an old English word for spear.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In order to perfect the ray that he believes will turn his daughter into a normal human one day, he keeps testing it on unwilling test subjects that keep turning into freaks.
Sarnak
Sarnak
Alter Ego: Sidney Sarnak
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #9 (1973)
Sarnak was a former sound engineer who became a villain for hire when his counterfeit production was discovered and he almost burned to death. He was hired by The Committee to cause chaos in Los Angeles. Created the Tatterdemalion, one of his former pawns.
- Alliterative Name: Sidney Sarnak.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: A pre-digital example, no less! His origin story involves pirating music albums and almost dying in an accident while fleeing the police.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: His face is covered with scars, which he hides with his mask. Or at least he thinks he's scarred.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He is eventually defeated when he loses his hold on his minions, who then unmask him and are implied to kill him.
- Killed Off for Real: Possibly; His death is implied rather than actually shown, but he hasn't shown up again since it happened.
- King of the Homeless: In this case, via his sonic Mind-Control Device.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Used a mask to hide his scarred face.
- Mind-Control Device: He uses a special "control whistle" to force derelicts, and even the Werewolf, to do his bidding.
Tatterdemalion
Tatterdemalion
Alter Ego: Arnold Paffenroth
First Appearance: Werewolf by Night #9 (1973)
One of Sarnak's vagrant army, he later strikes out on his own and wages war on the wealthy by destroying their stuff.
- Ascended Extra: He starts out as Sarnak's unnamed but memorable main henchman in volume one before returning with his own codename and gimmicks in Jack's post-series appearances.
- Eat the Rich: This is his motivation; he doesn't steal money, jewelry, and expensive things; he just destroys luxury goods and cash and brutalizes the wealthy.
- Expansion Pack Past: When he turned up in Dazzler, he got a sympathetic backstory as a failed stage entertainer.
- The Pig-Pen: He has weaponized it; rather disgustingly, he takes advantage of his poor hygiene by throwing his filthy, reeking cloak over people in battle.
- Scarf of Asskicking: Wears one to hide his face.
