Raul Chalmers
Raul Chalmers is a male comic supervillain that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Raul Chalmers
He eventually came to be the mentor to Walter Hardy and Castillo Drake who assisted him in his various schemes. At one point, he had a game of cards against Dracula where he leaked the location to Ulysses Bloodstone in order to use the distraction of their fight to steal from the vampire. (Black Cat v1 #1)
Black Fox came to learn that his protégé Walter Hardy had been in jail and decided to look out for his daughter Felicia Hardy who he sought to be his new student. (Black Cat v1 #2)
With her training complete, Felicia Hardy was ready to operate on her own with her meeting Black Fox where she revealed that she would be taking the name Black Cat. He was happy to hear that and learnt that she was assembling a crew that would help break her father out of prison. (Black Cat v2 #5)
One day, he was told of an apartment that was said to contain riches that would allow the Black Fox to become rich and allow him to retire from being a thief. Unknown to him, this was actually a set-up arranged by the Red Ghost who owned the apartment as he had the Black Fox enter so that he could be caught. This was because the supervillain had need of the burglar's talents to secure more funds for him to help him complete his Cosmicizer machine. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #255)
Black Fox came to meet with the doctors who informed him that he was dying and only had months left to live. He tried various means to circumvent this including the Infinity Formula and Krakoan medicinal's. In desperation, he tried other options including meeting the dreaded Yi Yang who sent him away whilst Zheng Zu was long dead. He even went to Dracula but the lord of the vampires did not forget how the thief had swindled him in the past. Upon learning Black Fox was dying, he became amused and wanted the human to suffer so he commanded that no vampire were to turn him. His options were then nearly exhausted as he knew no gods or demons to bargain with to extend his life. It was then that he hatched on a plan to make a deal with the Gilded Saint who was a patron for the New York City chapter of the Thieves Guild. He intended to offer all of Manhattan to the entity in exchange for immortality for himself and Felicia Hardy. He kept this scheme hidden from Black Cat as he knew she would never agree with it but orchestrated events to achieve immortality. (Black Cat v2 #5)
He was at his home when he was attacked by the Thieves Guild where despite his efforts he was caught and taken to Odessa Drake. (Black Cat v1 #6)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was noted to use a range of different aliases to cover his true identity. (Black Cat v1 #1)
Raul was not above cheating repeatedly and frequently in card games. (Black Cat v1 #1)
He had said that he lived an extraordinary life but one filled with difficulty and had been unkind to him. (Black Cat v2 #5)
It was shown that he was a mentor to Felicia Hardy with the two genuinely loving one another as teacher and student. Chalmers believed that it was the teacher's lot to watch their students outgrow the mentor. His heart was broken when Felicia Hardy began to operate away from him but accepted this as part of her own path in being a thief. (Black Cat v2 #5)
He said that he loved Coney Island as it reminded him of growing up in Brighton Pier. (Black Cat v1 #6)
Powers and abilities
Chalmers had a long history as a skilled thief and burglar. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #255) He made use of a range of gadgets with some of them having been made by Walter Hardy. (Black Cat v1 #1) The Black Fox wore a skin-tight costume that allowed him to adhere to surfaces making it easier for him to scale buildings in order to gain entry. In addition, he had gadgets such as specialised custom-designed glass cutters that allowed him to break cut through glass without making a sound. Pockets in his suit contained special electronic devices that he could use to neutralise security systems. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #255)
By the current day, he was an old man where his frail body was slowly dying as a result. (Black Cat v2 #5)
Notes
- The Black Fox was created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz where he made his first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man v1 #255 (August, 1984).
Appearances
- Amazing Spider-Man v1: (1984)
- Black Cat v1:
- Black Cat v2: (2021)
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