Heroes for Hire (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 2006):
“Taking it to the Streets, Part 1”
by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Billy Tucci, Tom Palmer

Heroes for Hire (vol. 2) #1

Title: “Taking it to the Streets, Part 1”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 2006

Publisher:
Written by: Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti
Art by: Billy Tucci, Tom Palmer

39 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Iron Man (Tony Stark)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Shang-Chi	Taoist monk	black; Heroes for Hire...  Marvel Knights; MI-6; Secret Avengers; The Avengers		313
Misty Knight		black; Heroes for Hire...  Metro College; Nightwing Restorations; NYPD		192
Colleen Wing	Bushido	Asian; Heroes for Hire...  Nightwing Restorations		137
Black Cat (Felicia Hardy)	Catholic	Heroes for Hire		374
Humbug (Buck Mitty)	insect-based beliefs	Heroes for Hire		25
Tarantula (Maria Vasquez)	Christian (denomination unknown)	Heroes for Hire; Hispanic		16
Shockwave (Lancaster Sneed)	Golden Dagger Sect	Hood's Army; Initiative...  MI-6; Oriental Expediters; S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Masters of Evil [Was one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Deltites.]		35
Warfist		Avatars of the Mandarin		4
unnamed battle robots	N.A.	[1st app: Heroes for Hire (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 2006)]		1
Grindhouse		[1st app: Heroes for Hire (vol. 2) #1 (Oct. 2006)]		1
Bloodshed (Wyndell Dickinson)		Hood's Army; Mafia		4
Ghost Maker (Grigori Sovchenko)	resurrected	KGB; Snakeroot...  The Hand [part Mongol from the Russian steppes]		4
Goldbug (Matthew Gilden)	obsessed with gold	[executive; thief]		11
Kogar (Li-Peng Kai)		[leader of own smuggling ring]		6
Vienna		[freelance spy; mercenary]		4
Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (7-panel cameo)	Protestant	Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  The Avengers; Weapon X (Exiles)		10,664
Ancestor (6-panel cameo)	Chinese traditional religion; ancestor veneration	Avatars of the Mandarin		7
Foundry (6-panel cameo)		Avatars of the Mandarin		4
Equinox (Terry Sorenson) (6-panel cameo)		Freedom Force; Initiative: Vil-Anon		22
Orka (5-panel cameo)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Deep Six...  Heroes for Hire		62
Q'Wake (5-panel cameo)		Avatars of the Mandarin		4
Sickle (5-panel cameo)		Avatars of the Mandarin		2
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (4-panel cameo)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Paladin (4-panel cameo)		Heroes for Hire; Intruders...  Outlaws; The Thunderbolts; Wild Pack		136
Lich (4-panel cameo)		Avatars of the Mandarin		6
Shadow-Slasher (Xi-shan Hao) (4-panel cameo)		[martial artist]		3
Otis Danger Johnson (3-panel cameo)		A.I.M.; Heroes for Hire (staff)...  Nightwing Restorations (staff)		7
Captain America (Steve Rogers) (mentioned & on cover)	Protestant	Redeemers; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Invaders; The Ultimates; Weapon Plus		5,992
Luke Cage (mentioned)	Christian (denomination unknown)	black; Heroes for Hire...  Marvel Knights; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Fantastic Four [formerly owned a bar and theater]		951
Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (mentioned)	Tibetan (K'un L'un) Buddhism	Heroes for Hire; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers		672
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn) (mentioned)	manifestly non-religious	Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Dark X-Men (leader); H.A.M.M.E.R. (leader); Sinister Twelve (leader); The Cabal (leader); The Thunderbolts (leader)		417
Venom (Mac Gargan) (mentioned)	manifestly non-religious	Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Sinister Twelve; Spider-Man Revenge League; The Masters of Evil; The Thunderbolts		315
Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius) (mentioned)		Sinister Six; The Masters of Evil...  Thunderbolts Army		1,006
The Mandarin (Khan) (mentioned)		Asian; Mandarin's Minions...  The Hand		190
Fu Manchu (mentioned)	Si-Fan (leader); Order of the Golden Dawn (leader); Leopard Cult (leader)	Asian; Si-Fan [father of Shang-Chi]		148
Wyatt Earp (mentioned)		U.S. Marshals		408
Susan B. Anthony (mentioned)	Quaker	[famed suffragist]	, etc.	13
Kenji Ozawa (mentioned)	Bushido	Asian [Samurai; Colleen Wing's grandfather; raised her]		2

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