Royal Flush Gang (New Earth)

The Royal Flush Gang

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Official Team Name

The Royal Flush Gang

Team Aliases

Unknown

Status

Active

Identity

Secret

Universe

Earth-One, New Earth

Base of Operations

Las Vegas, Atlantic City, most major cities in the United States.

Affiliations

Current Members

King of Spades, Queen of Spades, Jack of Spades, Ten of Spades, Ace Android

Former Members

Amos Fortune, Hector Hammond, King of Clubs, Queen of Clubs, Hi-Jack, Ten of Clubs, Ten of Spades, Jack of Spades

Enemies

Justice League of America

Creators

Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky

First appearance

Justice League of America #43
(March, 1966)

History

The Royal Flush Gang is no longer just a costumed cadre of common criminals. With branches in every major city in the country, they've become a national menace.

-- Vixen

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Paraphernalia

Equipment:

• Ace Android
• Ace Exoskeleton: To complement his already big strength, Ernest Clay used an exoskeleton. Apart from enhanced strength, it also had a large gamma blaster at the chest.
• Insulated Suits: Wanda Wayland's suit was able to shield her from the vacuum of space; a special membrane over her face mask allowed her to breathe.
• Sceptre Royale: Mona Taylor bore a scepter that could alter her appearance into any other woman.
• Stellaration: An odd-changing mechanism developed by Amos Fortune. Only used when he was part of the gang.

Transportation:

• Card Scooter: Flying playing cards developed by the first Ace of Spades.

Weapons:

• Crossbows: Ten's Little Indians were armed with crossbows.
• Cybernetic eye: The third Jack of Spades was the first to give up one eye (albeing involuntarily). Several subsequent Jacks have had either one or two eyes replaced with a laser.
• Firearms: Members have used a variety of standard firearms.
• Lance: One of the new weapons of the first Ace of Spades, this lance could shoot acid-tipped spades.
• Lasers: Several members have had wrist-mounted laser guns.
• Playing cards: Either normal playing cards or modified ones, used as throwing weapons.
• Spades: The Gambler gave Mona Taylor a wrist-mounted launcher that could shoot spade-shaped blades.
• Staff: Several members have used a variety of laser and ray-shooting staffs and scepters.
• Swords: Several members have used swords, both ordinary and laster shooting.

Notes

• Pre-Crisis, the reason for the dress-up as playing cards was that they needed to do so to make the stellaration work. Post-Crisis, Amos Fortune was a card shark, and he came up because his friends had names starting with the letters of the Royal Flush: Kerry (King), "Queenie" (Queen), Jack (Jack) and Tom (Ten).
• The Royal Flush Gang was not the first team that styled themselves after playing cards; the Ace, King, Queen and Jack of Crime of Earth-S predated them by 20 years.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• 65 Appearances of Royal Flush Gang (New Earth)
• Images that include Royal Flush Gang (New Earth)
• Team Gallery: Royal Flush Gang (New Earth)

Links and References

• Royal Flush Gang at Wikipedia.org
  

Footnotes

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