JOHNNY FOX

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: John James Fox 

OCCUPATION: Former soldier, US Government agent 

IDENTITY: Secret 

CLASS: Human mutate 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA 

OTHER ALIASES: Hunter, Captain Zero 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Everglades, Florida (USA) 

MARITAL STATUS: Single 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Robert Fox (father), Hilde Fox (deceased mother), Jack Fox (deceased grandfather) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: United States Army Special Forces (former), Z-Team (former), CIA 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Washington DC, USA 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Champion Comics #6 (April 1940) 

HEIGHT: 5' 10" 

WEIGHT: 215 lbs 

EYES: Brown 

HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

John Fox was born in 1947, in the Florida Everglades, to a Seminole father and a half Italian/half German mother. His mother died during childbirth and his father suffered from alcoholism, so he was raised by his grandfather. At the age of 17, his grandfather was murdered and Johnny in revenge killed the murderer with his own hands. A judge commuted his sentence in exchange for serving in Vietnam. A year later he is drafted into the US Army Special Forces and became part of a unit commanded by Colonel Napoleon Moresby. Moresby's team was codenamed Z-Team and consisted of four men (plus Moresby). The four of them were given experimental Z-Compound to awaken their latent powers and that is how Johnny got his special abilities. During one of their missions the team is ambushed and taken prisoner by the Vietcong. Fox manages to escape from the prison camp with Colonel Moresby, but the rest of the team perishes. 

Fox returns to action until the Fall of Saigon, then returns to the US and lives as a drifter until a run-in with the authorities brings him back into contact with Moresby, who recruits him as a secret agent. On his first mission, rescuing American prisoners held in Vietnam, John pairs up with South Vietnamese agent Madam Zero, with whom he establishes an intermittent but long-term romantic relationship. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

In addition to being an incredible fighter (both with his fists and with a knife), John was extremely agile and athletic, a skilled tracker and marksman (especially with a bow and arrow), an expert in stealth, and a great horseman. Compound Z gave him the power to turn invisible (except for his eyes, which glow with a faint ghostly glow) and increased his healing factor to superhuman levels. 

THULA

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Thula of Jem 

OCCUPATION: Princess of Mars, adventuress 

IDENTITY: Public 

CLASS: Mutant

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of the Confederate Planets (CP) 

OTHER ALIASES: Princess Thula 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mars 

MARITAL STATUS: Single 

KNOWN RELATIVES: Jarl and Jane (deceased parents), Jane (sister), Marsu (uncle), Taar (cousin), Vanza (aunt) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate Headquarters, Urbania (Planet Earth) 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Space Western #40 (1952) 

HEIGHT: 5' 9" 

WEIGHT: 125 lbs 

EYES: Blue 

HAIR: Blonde 

HISTORY 

XXXVII Century, in the future Mars is a monarchy and each member of the royal family possesses extraordinary powers. King Jarl is the master of thunder, Queen Jane is the mistress of the atom, Crown Princess Thula controls plant life, and little Princess Jane is capable of altering reality itself. The King's sister, Duchess Vanza is an anomaly, apparently lacking superhuman powers. When the Crown Princess is 16 years old, the King and Queen die in strange circumstances and Duchess Vanza becomes regent until Thula comes of age. Princess Jane is locked in a convent of the Sisterhood of Steel, but she soon escapes and travels as a stowaway in a spaceship bound for Earth. During the regency, Thula suffers several terrorist attacks from the Scarlet Shroud organization, but manages to survive unscathed thanks to her powers. Duchess Vanza assigns her a bodyguard, Johnny Fox, nicknamed Rapid Fox, a young but grim seminole warrior with special abilities. The princess and the warrior spend a lot of time together and end up falling in love. The Scarlet Shroud attacks become more and more frequent and soon civil war breaks out on the Red Planet. Princess Jane, now nicknamed the Magician of Mars, returns accompanied by the Inter-space Justice Syndicate. The Princesses of Mars confront the leader of the Scarlet Shroud, who turns out to be (oh surprise!) Duchess Vanza, and Rapid Fox an assassin hired for her to finish off Thula. However Fox's love for Thula is true and he turns against the Duchess, who seriously injures him while protecting the heiress. The Duchess manages to slip away, but the insurrection is put down and Thula is hailed by the people as Queen of Mars. However, the young princess has other plans. After taking care of Rapid Fox until his recovery, the two decide to become members of the Inter-space Justice Syndicate, just like her sister Jane, leaving her cousin, Taal, son of Duke Marsu (King Jarl's little brother), as Ruling Seneschal of Mars. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

She has shown to have the ability to manipulate vegetal life (chlorokinesis). 

RAPID FOX

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: John Fox 

OCCUPATION: Adventurer, bodyguard 

IDENTITY: Public 

CLASS: Mutant 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of the Confederate Planets 

OTHER ALIASES: Johnny 

PLACE OF BIRTH: Everglades, Florida (Planet Earth) 

MARITAL STATUS: Single 

KNOWN RELATIVES: John Fox (ancestor) 

GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate 

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Inter-Space Justice Syndicate, Urbania (Planet Earth) 

FIRST APPEARANCE: Space Western #44 (1953) 

HEIGHT: 5' 9" 

WEIGHT: 170 lbs 

EYES: Black 

HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

Rapid Fox was a seminole warrior hired by the Regent Duchess of Mars, Vanza, as a personal bodyguard to Thula, the Crown Princess, who had suffered several terrorist attacks by the Scarlet Shroud. But in reality the Duchess had hired him not to protect Thula, but to assassinate her. However, Fox truly fell in love with the princess and when the Duchess gave him the order to assassinate her, he was unable to do so. Even more, Fox was seriously injured saving Thula's life, thus proving that his love was true. After recovering from his injuries and after Thula left Mars in the hands of her cousin Taar, they both embarked for Earth to become members of the Inter-space Justice Syndicate. Thula and Fox's relationship, despite its beginnings, has proven to be more than stable, unbreakable.

POWERS & WEAPONS 

Johnny is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, who can easily kill with his bare hands. He is also well trained, both in the use of the traditional weapons of his people (the bow, the knife, the spear and the tomahawk axe) and in the energy weapons of the XXXVII century. As a seminole warrior, he possesses swamp survival and tracking skills. All of this is, let's say, the "normal" part of his abilities. Rapid Fox is capable of short bursts of superhuman speed, during which he moves at several hundred miles per hour. If they're short enough, he doesn't need to rest between one and the next. Those micro-bursts of speed also grant him superhuman reaction time, allowing him to dodge projectiles, attack and defend himself much faster in close combat, etc.