The Butcher

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Catholic priest

Affiliations: None

Enemies: Spider, Weasel, Charles Gambino

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New Orleans, circa 1930s

First Appearance: "Forgive Us Our Trespasses", Eerie #62 (Warren, January 1975)

Powers/Abilities: Capable shot and knifeman.

History: Afraid his terminally-ill mobster father Don Carlo Gambino might spill damaging information about his son's criminal activities during his final confession, Charles Gambino ordered a hit on the Don, intending to make it look like a rival mob family had been behind it. The priest taking Carlo's confession was hideously mutilated and left for dead; surviving, he hunted down his attackers and then Charles, before retiring, realising he had come to enjoy the killing.

Comments: Created by Bill DuBay and Roger Corben.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

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