The Knight Avenger a work in progress

The Knight Avenger

The Knight Avenger was an idea I cooked after reading Will Eisners Spirit.He like Danny Colt ,Richard Benson  Guardner  was thought to be dead,but actually got resurrected by science secretly,in a hidden underground lab.I wanted him also to create something along the lines of the Shadow and the Avenger-two pulp crime fighters-who work at night,uses a team of assosiates to wage this war.He wore a dark slouched hat over a black Iron Man mask and a bullet proof trenchcoat over a thin suite of armor. The Knight Avenger chronicles the adventures of a masked vigilante –perhaps from a long line of individuals,used the same identity,who fights crime with the blessing of the city's police commissioner , an old friend. Jonathan Christopher Guardner is original 16^th Century The Knight Avenger. 

Despite  The Knight Avenger  origin as detective Richard Benson  Guardner , Guardner Investigation,Inc.The stories range through a wide variety of styles, from straightforward crime drama and noir to lighthearted adventure, from mystery and horror to comedy and love stories, often with hybrid elements that twisted genre and reader expectations.

The Knight Avenger  as a man with villainous characteristics, who used them to battle crime, and  complete with a stylized imagery, a stylized name, sidekicks, supervillains, and a secret identity. Clad in black, The Knight Avenger operated mainly after dark, burglarizing in the name of justice, and terrifying criminals into vulnerability before he or someone else gunned them down.  The Knight Avenger wore a wide brimmed black hat and a black, crimson-lined cloak with an upturned collar over a jumpsuite suit,also acted as his suite of armor.The suite,was of mysterious origin-possibly an ancient prototype Imperial Delkhon Battlearmor,mixed with elements of The Zhatikhon Enforcers armor. a crimson scarf just below his nose and across his mouth and chin. Both the cloak and scarf covered either a black doubled-breasted trench coat or regular black jumpsuit,that conseals all sorts of weapons

•  Vincent Willianson, an operative who work as Private Detective for  Guardner Investigation,Inc.
• Marvin Vinchenzo," a cab driver who doubles as The Knight Avenger and his agents chauffeur.  Works Vinchenzo New York Metro Yellow Cabs.

·        Leo Vinchenzo," a cab driver who doubles as  The Knight Avenger and his agents chauffeur.  Works Vinchenzo New York Metro Yellow Cabs.

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·        Alexandria Kane, a Jewish socialite was granted the power of telepathy, and hence the ability to pierce The Knight Avenger’s  hypnotic mental-clouding abilities.)

      William Gilbert Kane New York  City Police Commissioner

·        Calvin Burke, a newspaper reporter.

• Donald Branson,  operator who maintains contact between The Knight Avenger and his agents. Branson work for local Doomwatch-

·        Buddy Burke, a wrongly convicted ex-con who infiltrates gangs using his crooked reputation.

·        Dr. Rupert Walsh, The Knight Avenger’s  personal physician.

·        Wilburr Elwood Watson, a giant, immensely strong black man,.

·        Sarah Hill, who works with The Knight Avenger to rehabilitate criminals.

·        Steve Ashton , who sometimes pilots The Knight Avenger’s private jets,hover craft

·        Robert Schulz, a shady stock-broker who collects information.

·        Suspender Bruce Fellows,.Bookstore owner,

·        Howard Peel, a reformed underworld snoop who trails gangsters and other criminals.

• Jessica Chang, a female operative who uses the  her restaurant  in Chinatown as a base of operations The Knight Avenger and his agents.

·        Inspector Bruce Tang, The Knight Avenger’s  contact man in New York's Chinatown.

·        Fictional character biography[edit]

·        The Knight Avenger is the name an urban legend that date for centuries,about mysterious force for justice and enemy of evil,known throughout world since 16^th century   crimefighter", was the hero persona of young detective Richard Benson  Guardner

·         . Richard Benson  Guardner  seems only verson an ancient,wealthy family,whose eldest male,dones the mantle of the •     The Knight Avenger.

·        (To be precise, Richard Benson  Guardner  Jr.)

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·        Presumed killed in the first three pages of the premiere story, Guardner  later revealed to his friend, New York  City Police Commissioner William Gilbert Kane,.

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·         When Guardner  began a life of fighting crime wearing only a small domino mask, blue business suit, red necktie, fedora hat, and gloves for a costume. The Knight Avenger’s   dispensed justice with the aide of his various  assistant, , funding his adventures with the rewards for capturing villains.

·        The Knight Avenger’s   was based originally in New York City , but his adventures took him around the globe. He met up with eccentrics, kooks, and femme fatales, bringing his own form of justice to all of them. The story changed continually, but certain themes remained constant: the love between The Knight Avenger’s  and Kane feisty protofeminist daughter Alexandria (Alex) ; Doctor Noah Blackwell  (a psychopathic criminal mastermind who was never seen, except for his distinctive gloves)..Some believe Doctor Blackwell  urban legend that date for centuries,about mysterious force for justice and enemy of evil,known throughout world since 16th century . Richard Benson  Guardner  believe simply the for mysterious Doctor Blackwell is fictional legend created the local agent for  the Zhenn Lann Authority Black Market operations.Imaging Technology can’t any sourse,for original picture,it seems a several layered photoshopped images of several hundred sourse-actors like Joseph Ruskin,fictional like Xaltotun from Conan of Cimmeria comic,various Jesus Christ pictures,. Guardner believe either ebarate hoax,,someone using a holographic persona or other.

 A stolen formula transforms ordinary people
into superhuman murder machines

The Black Death is from the May 1942 issue of the magazine.  Again
from the back cover: Targeted with The Black Death, The Avenger
must unmask the satanic mastermind behind the Black Wings Cult
before his own life is forfeit.

Cargo of Doom originally saw print in the May 1943 edition of Clues
Detective Stories.  From the back cover: A child makes an appeal
for help to Richard Henry Benson, leading The Avenger along the
deadly trail to a Cargo of Doom.  

Zatikhon Enforcer Agents wear dark grey or black business suits lined with a gold fabric, black dress shoes, a silver bar tie clip to complement the tie, square sunglasses or Macroscope Visors, over the masks,that hide true faces and a communication earpiece to inform them of any disturbances within the system. These features are copied from the attire for plainclothes agents of the United States Secret Service, as well as those of the Men in Black conspiracy or the stereotypical G,Man/FBI official.  Agents carry handguns in shoulder holsters that are concealed beneath their suits. In addition Zatikhon Enforcers to proficiency in the use of firearms, all Agents are masters of the martial arts and hand,to,hand combat.They also carry Cosmic Canes,similar to certain members of the Legion of Time Sorcerers,to appear as simply walking sticks,but are actually disguised hand weapons.

Zatikhon Enforcer Agents are programmed to be extremely agile,unlike regular Special Commerse Agents allowing them to perform superhuman feats such as leaping great distances, while possessing exceptional reflexes; on one occasion managed to directly counter a punch from with a punch of  their own to still,moving fist. They can briefly move at speeds fast enough to evade gunfire, at least in most circumstances; contact shots are effective, as are weapons with an extremely high rate of fire, such as that from a as seen in They seem to be impervious to pain, or to have an extremely high tolerance for it; when shoots one Agent with a pistol or rifle, he shows no visible reaction to several bullets piercing  their arm. They can only be "killed" by wounds that would be instantly lethal to a human; trauma to the head, heart, upper spine, and plant like skeleton structure,that somewhat similar to a cross between a human skeleton and a hard,bark like tree structure,so on.The Zatikhon form  are made up of vegetable matter, and very difficult to harm,but can injured or severly damaged.The Zatikhon Agents can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts,

Neither the   Zhatikhon  nor their planet were ever named. Their human appearance was a disguise; they were never shown in their true form except in one episode, "Genesis", in which an ill   Zhatikhon  researcher loses  their human form and  are briefly seen immersed in a tank of water. Unless they receive periodic treatments in what Vincent called "regeneration chambers", which consume a great deal of electrical power, they revert to their   Zhatikhon  form. One scene in the series showed an   Zhatikhon  beginning to revert, filmed in soft focus and with pulsating red light.

They had certain characteristics by which they could be detected, such as the absence of a pulse and the inability to bleed red blood. Nearly all were emotionless and had "mutated" little fingers which could not move easily without gloves.There were also a number of mutant   Zhatikhon s, who experienced emotions similar to those of humans, and who even opposed the   Zhatikhon  takeover. The existence of the   Zhatikhon  could not be documented by killing one and examining the body: When they died, their bodies would begin to degenerate and disintegrate into mushy fungus like mass— leaving only  their clothes and anything else they were touching — leaving little more than traces of black brownish mush. On several occasions, a dying   Zhatikhon  would deliberately touch a piece of their technology to prevent it from falling into the hands of humans.Even though,much off their technology is either  purcchised by   the Zatikhons on the Zhenn Lann Authority Black Market Network.

Powers[edit]

After being critically injured during a battle with the Extremis-enhanced Mallen, Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior injects his nervous system with modified techno-organic virus-like body restructuring machines (the Extremis process).[91]By rewriting his own biology, Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior is able to save his life, gain an enhanced healing factor, and partially merge with the Imperial Delkhon  armor, superseding the need for bulky, AI-controlled armors in favor of lighter designs, technopathically controlled by his own brain. His enhanced technopathy extends to every piece of technology, limitless and effortlessly due to his ability to interface with communication satellites and wireless connections to increase his "range". Some components of the armor-sheath are now stored in Tony's body, able to be recalled, and extruded from his own skin, at will.

During the "Secret Invasion" storyline the Extremis package is catastrophically shutdown by a virus, forcing him again to rely on the previous iteration of his armor, and restoring his previous limitations. Furthermore, Osborn's takeover of most of the few remaining Starktech factories, with Ezekiel Stane systematically crippling the others, limits Tony to the use of lesser, older and weaker armors.[92]

After being forced to "wipe out" his brain to prevent Norman Osborn from gaining his information, Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior is forced to have a new arc reactor, of Rand design installed in his chest. The process greatly improves his strength, stamina and intellect. The procedure left him with virtually no autonomic functions: as his brain was stripped of every biological function, Tony is forced to rely on a digital backup of his memories (leaving him with severe gaps and lapses in his long-term memory) and on software routine in the arc reactor for basic stimuli reaction, such as blinking and breathing.[93][94] The Bleeding Edgepackage of armor and physical enhancement is now equal in power, if not a more advanced, version of the old Extremis tech.[77]

Skills[edit]

Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior is an inventive genius whose expertise in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and computer science rivals that of Reed Richards, Hank Pym, and Bruce Banner, and his expertise inelectrical engineering and mechanical engineering surpasses even theirs. He is regarded as one of the most intelligent characters in the Marvel Universe. He graduated with advanced degrees in physics and engineering at the age of 17 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[95] and further developed his knowledge ranging from artificial intelligence to quantum mechanics as time progressed. His expertise extends to his ingenuity in dealing with difficult situations, such as difficult foes and deathtraps, in which he is capable of using available tools, including his suit, in unorthodox but effective ways. He is well respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he speaks on economic matters, having over the years built up several multi-million dollar companies from virtually nothing. He is noted for the loyalty he commands from and returns to those who work for him, as well as for his business ethics. Thus he immediately fired an employee who made profitable, but illegal, sales to Doctor Doom.[33] He strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses.

At a time when Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior was unable to use his armor for a period, he received some combat training from Captain America and has become physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it.[96] In addition, Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior possesses great business and political acumen. On multiple occasions he reacquired control of his companies after losing them amid corporate takeovers.[97]

Due to his membership in the Illuminati, Imperial Delkhon  was given the Space Infinity Gem to safeguard.[98] It allows the user to exist in any location (or all locations), move any object anywhere throughout the universe and warp or rearrange space. As with the other members of the lluminati and their respective gems, Imperial Delkhon  has vowed not to use it on any occasion, even after the Secret Invasion and his fugitive status.

It was later discovered that Prince Dhell Khonn,Junior’s intelligence is the result of an experiment by a Rigellian Recorder called Recorder Recorder 451  after his mother almost loses him while pregnant, in exchange of saving his life.[99]

Nick Carter (literary character)

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For the radio program, see Nick Carter, Master Detective.

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Nick Carter is a fictional character who began as a dime novel private detective in 1886 and has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century.

Contents  [hide]

1             Literary history

1.1         Killmaster revival

2             Authors

3             Films

3.1         France

3.1.1      Éclair

3.1.2      1960s

3.2         Hollywood

3.2.1      MGM

3.2.2      Columbia

3.2.3      Movie-of-the-week

3.3         Czechoslovakia

4             Radio

5             Comic books

6             Listen to

7             See also

8             References

9             External links

Literary history[edit]

From The New Magnet Library Collection at The George Peabody Library

Nick Carter first appeared in the story paper New York Weekly (Vol. 41 No. 46, September 18, 1886) in a 13-week serial, "The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square", a concept given by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith and performed by John R. Coryell.[1] The character proved popular enough to headline his own magazine, Nick Carter Weekly. The serialized stories in Nick Carter Weekly were also reprinted as stand-alone titles under the New Magnet Library imprint.[2] By 1915, Nick Carter Weekly had ceased publication and Street & Smith had replaced it with Detective Story Magazine, which focused on a more varied cast of characters. There was a brief attempt at reviving Carter in 1924-27 in Detective Story Magazine, but it wasn't successful.

In the 1930s, due to the success of The Shadow and Doc Savage, Street & Smith revived Nick Carter in a pulp magazine (called Nick Carter Detective Magazine) that ran from 1933 to 1936. Since Doc Savage had basically been given Nick's background, Nick Carter was now cast as more of a hard-boiled detective. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective, which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System network from 1943 to 1955

Killmaster revival[edit]

Main article: Nick Carter-Killmaster

Following the success of the James Bond series in the 1960s, the character was updated for a long-running series of novels featuring the adventures of secret agent Nick Carter, aka the Killmaster. The first book, Run Spy Run, appeared in 1964 and more than 260 Nick Carter-Killmaster adventures were published up until 1990. (Two additional books have been erroneously listed as Killmaster novels by some sources: Meteor Eject!, a memoir by an RAF pilot named Nick Carter published in 2000, and a 2005 release entitled Brotherhood which is an autobiography written by singer Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys.) The 100th Killmaster novel (appropriately entitled Nick Carter 100) contained an essay on the 1890s version and included a short story featuring the character. It marked one of the few times the Killmaster series acknowledged its historical roots.

None of the Nick Carter series of books carried author credits, although it is known that several of the earliest volumes were written by Michael Avallone, while Valerie Moolman and NYT bestselling author Gayle Lynds wrote others, making this the first series of its kind to be (significantly) written by women. Bill Crider is another author identified with Nick Carter.[3]

The Nick Carter name was treated as a pseudonym, and many of the volumes were written in first person.[4]

Authors[edit]

The works were published under the house pseudonyms of "Nicolas Carter" or "Sergeant Ryan". Known authors who contributed include:

John R. Coryell (1848–1924)

Frederick W. Davis (1858-1933)[5] who wrote eight Nick Carter stories for The New Nick Carter Weekly, in 1910 and 1912[6] as well as writing extensively under the pen name "Scott Campbell"[7][8]

Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey (1861–1922), who took his own life.

Thomas C. Harbaugh (1849–1924), who died penniless in the Miami County Home in Ohio.[9]

George C. Jenks

Eugene T. Sawyer (1847–1924) [10]

Charles Westerbrook

Richard Edward Wormser (1908-1977), who claimed to have written 17 Carter magazine stories published in 1932-33.[11]

Stories are also credited to Harrison Keith, the joint pseudonym of John A. L. Chambliss and Philip Clark, who both wrote for the franchise.

Films[edit]

The character has had a long and varied film history, with three countries producing films based on the character.

France[edit]

Éclair[edit]

In 1908 the French film company Éclair engaged Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset to make a serial film based on the Nick Carter novels which were then being published in France by the German publisher Eichler. Nick Carter, le roi des détectives, with Pierre Bressol in the title-role, was released in six episodes in late 1908, and enjoyed considerable success. Further adaptations followed with Nouveaux aventures de Nick Carter in 1909, and the character was revived for a confrontation with a master-criminal in Zigomar contre Nick Carter in 1912.[12]

1960s[edit]

American actor Eddie Constantine played the title roles in the French-made spy films Nick Carter va tout casser (1964) and Nick Carter et le trèfle rouge (1965). In one curiously circular and self-referential scene, Constantine as Carter enters a house where he finds a large collection of Nick Carter pulp magazines and other Nick Carter memorabilia. Both films are unconnected to the Killmaster book series.

Hollywood[edit]

MGM[edit]

The actor Walter Pidgeon portrayed the detective Nick Carter in a trilogy of films released by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company. Though MGM purchased the rights to a large number of Nick Carter stories, the films used original screenplays.[13]

Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

Sky Murder (1940)

Phantom Raiders (1940)

In the 1944 movie The Thin Man Goes Home, the detective character Nick Charles (William Powell) is seen reading a Nick Carter Detective magazine while relaxing in a hammock.

Columbia[edit]

Columbia could not afford the rights to produce a Nick Carter serial, so they made one about his son instead: Chick Carter, Detective, appeared in 1946.

Movie-of-the-week[edit]

In 1972, the actor Robert Conrad made a television pilot set in the Victorian era, The Adventures of Nick Carter that was shown as a made for television movie.

Czechoslovakia[edit]

The Czechoslovakian movie Dinner for Adele (1977) is a parody inspired by Nick Carter's pulp magazine adventures. It features "America's most famous detective" visiting Prague at the beginning of the 20th Century and solving a case involving a dangerous carnivorous plant (the Adele of the title). The Slovak actor Michal Dočolomanský played Nick Carter.

Radio[edit]

Charlotte Manson and Lon Clark in the Mutual series Nick Carter, Master Detective (1946)

Nick Carter first came to radio as The Return of Nick Carter. Then Nick Carter, Master Detective, with Lon Clark in the title role, began April 11, 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over a decade. Jock MacGregor was the producer-director of scripts by Alfred Bester, Milton J. Kramer, David Kogan and others. Background music was supplied by organists Hank Sylvern, Lew White and George Wright.

Patsy Bowen, Nick's assistant, was portrayed by Helen Choate until mid-1946 and then Charlotte Manson stepped into the role. Nick and Patsy's friend was reporter Scubby Wilson (John Kane). Nick's contact at the police department was Sgt. Mathison (Ed Latimer). The supporting cast included Raymond Edward Johnson, Bill Johnstone and Bryna Raeburn. Michael Fitzmaurice was the program's announcer. The series ended on September 25, 1955.

Chick Carter, Boy Detective was a serial adventure that aired weekday afternoons on Mutual. Chick Carter, the adopted son of Nick Carter, was played by Bill Lipton (1943–44) and Leon Janney (1944–45). The series aired from July 5, 1943 to July 6, 1945.

Comic books[edit]

Nick Carter and Chick Carter appeared in comics published by Street & Smith.

Nick appeared in The Shadow Comics, then moved to Army & Navy Comics and Doc Savage Comics briefly, before moving back to The Shadow Comics. Some of these appearances were in text stories.

Chick appeared in The Shadow Comics, some of which were in text stories.

There was also Nick Carter (comic strip), a 1972 Italian comic strip featuring detective Nick Carter.

Nick Carter-Killmaster

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Nick Carter-Killmaster is a series of spy adventures published from 1964 until 1990, first by Award Books, then by Ace Books, and finally by Jove Books. At least 261 novels were published. The character is an update of a pulp fiction private detective named Nick Carter first published in 1886.

No actual author is credited for the books, with the Nick Carter name being used as a house pseudonym. Volumes varied between first person and third person narrative. Authors known to have contributed entries in the series are Michael Avallone, Valerie Moolman, Manning Lee Stokes and Martin Cruz Smith.[1]

The title character of the series serves as Agent N3 of AXE, a fictional spy agency for the United States government. The novels are similar to the literary James Bond novels - low on gadgets, high on action. Sexual encounters in particular are described in detail.

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Contents

1             The Character

2             Weapons and paraphernalia

3             AXE

4             AXE Agents

5             Novels

6             See also

7             Footnotes

8             References

The CharacterEdit

The definitive description of Nicholas J. Huntington Carter is given in the first novel in the series Run, Spy, Run. Carter is tall (over 6 feet / 1.83 m), lean and handsome with a classic profile and magnificently muscled body. He has wide-set steel gray eyes that are icy, cruel and dangerous. He is hard-faced, with a firm straight mouth, laugh-lines around the eyes, and a firm cleft chin. His hair is thick and dark. He has a small tattoo of a blue axe on the inside right lower arm near the elbow - the ultimate ID for an AXE agent. At least one novel states that the tattoo glows in the dark. Carter also has a knife scar on the shoulder, a shrapnel scar on the right thigh. He has a sixth sense for danger.

Carter practices yoga for at least 15 minutes a day. Carter has a prodigious ability for learning foreign languages. He is fluent in English (his native tongue), Cantonese,[2] French,[3] German,[3][4] Greek,[5] Hungarian,[6] Italian,[3] Portuguese,[7] Putonghua (Mandarin),[8] Russian,[8][9] Sanskrit,[10] Spanish[11] and Vietnamese.[12][13] He has basic skills in Arabic,[14] Hindustani,[15] Japanese, Korean,[16] Romansch,[3] Swahili,[14] and Turkish.[17] In the early novels, Carter often assumes a number of elaborate disguises in order to execute his missions.

The name Nick Carter was acknowledged by the series as having been inspired by the early 20th century pulp fiction detective of the same name in the 100th Killmaster volume (labelled Nick Carter 100) which included an essay on the earlier Nick Carter and included a Nick Carter detective short story alongside a Killmaster adventure.

Weapons and paraphernaliaEdit

Nick Carter uses three main weapons during the course of the series, all of which are named, and have histories. The gun, Wilhelmina, is a stripped down German Luger. In the earliest stories, Carter got the gun off a German officer during a harrowing mission during World War II. Later stories state that he has had a series of Lugers, all named Wilhelmina. The knife, Hugo, is a pearl-handled 400-year-old stiletto crafted by Benvenuto Cellini. The blade retracts into the handle, and the whole thing is worn on a special sheath on the wrist, designed to release the knife into the user's hand with a simple muscle contraction. The third member of the triad is Pierre, a poison gas bomb, which is a small egg-shaped device, usually carried in a pocket but sometimes as a "third testicle" at his scrotum. Activated with a simple twist, it would, within seconds, kill anybody, or anything, that breathed its odorless and colorless gas.

Carter often takes with him other weapons as the mission demands. These have included:

Cousin of Pierre - a smaller version of Pierre the poison gas bomb that can be concealed even more easily - described in The China Doll;

Fang - a poison-tipped needle worn on a concealed index finger cap described in Saigon;

Pepito - a non-lethal stun grenade used in Checkmate in Rio.

Tiny Tim - a nuclear grenade "containing half a grain of sand of fissionable matter" used in Istanbul and The Red Guard

10,000-watt laser pistol used in Hanoi

Cigarette lighter that fires drugged darts used in Hanoi

Exploding cigars used in Hanoi

Carter has used a variety of equipment in the novels most of which have nicknames. These have included:

Antonio Moreno - a lifelike facemask made of a latex substance called Lastotex (apparently named after Antonio Moreno the 1920s silent movie star);

Gladstone - a rhino hide suitcase with multiple concealed compartments;

Oscar Johnson - a small radio transmitter (unclear if it is named after Oscar Johnson, a baseball player active in the 1920s and 1930s, or Oscar G. Johnson the World War II Medal of Honor recipient);

Quantity K - a powerful acid strong enough to destroy evidence/documents;

Laser torch - for burning through door locks used in The Weapon of Night;

Singing Sam – a radio receiver concealed in electric razor/electric toothbrush used in Istanbul;

Wristwatch with UHF transmitter used in Hanoi;

Triple X tablet – a universal poison antidote and pep pill used in Hanoi;

Talkalot - a scopolamine-like truth drug used in Danger Key;

Unnamed injectable knockout drug requiring subsequent injection of antidote to regain consciousness used in The Weapon of Night;

Store - an injectable drug that induces a week-long state of suspended animation used in Peking & The Tulip Affair

AXEEdit

The agency Carter works for is described as being smaller and far more secret than the CIA, mostly concerned with assassinations. In the first novel of the series, Run, Spy, Run, AXE is described as "the trouble-shooting arm of the US secret services". AXE headquarters are located in the 6th floor offices of a building in DuPont Circle, Washington, DC under the cover of the Amalgamated Press and Wire Service. AXE is purported to contain several different departments with specific functions including Editing (later called "Special Effects and Editing") - headed by Mr. Poindexter - which, among other things, creates false biographies for agents and provides appropriate props (e.g. fake latex fingerprints); Documents - whose role is to plant stories in the media to support specific activities and create false identification and travel documents; Records - which provides background information on suspects; and Operations - which provides logistic support for specific missions. AXE has a branch office near Columbus Circle, New York and affiliate offices in countries around the world.

Agents are given code designations; Carter's N3, which has at least once been stated as standing for Number three, identifies him as one of the elite Killmasters. It has been stated in some novels that there are 4 Killmasters in AXE with Carter the most senior.[18] The meaning of the code N3 is described differently in different novels - sometimes it is Carter's personal designation, other times it is considered a rank, with N1 being the highest, in other novels we are told that Carter is the third Killmaster to have worked for AXE with both his predecessors having been killed in action. David Hawk, described in early novels as looking a lot like Uncle Sam, is the head of AXE and Carter's personal boss. Della Stokes, Hawk's personal secretary, is a character similar to Bond's Miss Moneypenny - flirtatious but serious. Ginger Bateman is Hawk's personal secretary in later novels. Geoffrey Poindexter, AXE's equivalent to Q, runs the Special Effects and Editing department, in charge of weapons, gadgets, disguises, and papers.

AXE AgentsEdit

In the first novel in the series (Run, Spy, Run), AXE is described as comprising 24 agents. They are identified by alphanumeric code. The following agents / codes have been described:

A2 Unnamed (mentioned in "Hanoi")

A4 Unnamed (mentioned in "Fraulein Spy")

A7 Alec Greenberg (based in AXE London office, mentioned in "The Weapon of Night")

A12 using pseudonym "Alfred" (mentioned in "Fraulein Spy")

A24 Unnamed (mentioned in "Run, Spy, Run")

B5 (mentioned in "Hanoi")

B12 Unnamed but further nicknamed "Vitamin" (mentioned in "Fraulein Spy")

C4 Unnamed (mentioned in "Fraulein Spy")

D5 Dan Eiger (based in Iraq, killed in "The Weapon of Night")

E14 Red Turner (mentioned in "A Bullet for Fidel")

H19 Hakim Sadek (Egyptian policeman and academic, mentioned in "The Weapon of Night")

K7 Unnamed (mentioned in "Run, Spy, Run")

J2 Unnamed - briefs Carter on his trip to Japan (mentioned in "The China Doll")

J20 Jean Paul Turnier (mentioned in "The Terrible Ones")

L32 Hank Peterson (mentioned in "Operation Moon Rocket") (1968)

N1 Unnamed (stated killed in "The Red Guard") (1967)

N1 Unnamed (stated killed in "Temple of Fear") (1968)

N1 Stuart Hample (mentioned in "The Peking Dossier") (1975)

N1 David Hawk (in "Trouble in Paradise") (1978)

N1 Theodore Salonikos (dies in "Hide And Go Die") (1983)

N2 Unnamed (stated killed in "The Red Guard") (1967)

N2 Unnamed (stated killed in "Temple of Fear") (1968)

N3 Nick Carter

N4 Unnamed (stated killed in "Temple of Fear") (1968)

N5 Unnamed (an inexperienced agent mentioned in "Temple of Fear") (1968)

N5 McLaughlin (mentioned in "Dr. Death") (1975)

N6 Joe Banks (stated dead in "Six Bloody Summer Days") (1975)

N6 or N7 Tom Boxer (mentioned in "Macao") (1969)

N7 Clay Vincent (mentioned in "Agent Counter-Agent") (1973)

N7 (stated dead in "Hide And Go Die") (1983)

N12 John Sparks (mentioned in "Under the Wall") (1978)

N12 Unnamed (stated dead in "Hide And Go Die") (1983)

N17 Dennis Gordon (dies in "The Golden Bull") (1981)

N17 Bill Qualley (mentioned in "Hide And Go Die") (1983)

N30 Kiki Pederson (dies in "Trouble in Paradise") (1978)

N86 Sean Singer (recruited in "Hide And Go Die") (1983)

N92 Penelope Taylor (knife trained by N86 in "Ruby Red Death") (1990)

P3 David Trainor (murdered in "A Bullet for Fidel")

P4 Unnamed, described as a mole in the Kremlin (mentioned in "Safari for Spies")

P21 Martha Ryerson (female, mentioned in "Rhodesia") (1968)

Q7 Ellie Harmon, (female, mentioned in "Hanoi")

Z4 Zeke, works in AXE Psycho Lab (mentioned in "Hanoi")

NovelsEdit

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