MADAME FATE

Real Name: C.B. Kalish

Identity/Class: Presumably human, other attributes unrevealed

Occupation: Would-be assassin

Group membership:  None known

Affiliations: None known; sought employment with the Kingpin

Enemies: None known, although the Kingpin was somewhat annoyed with her

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None known

Base of Operations: Unrevealed, possibly New York City

First Appearance: (mentioned only) Spectacular Spider-Man II#109 (December 1985)

Powers/Abilities: As a would-be assassin, Madame Fate presumably possesses a high level of physical prowess and some familiarity with weapons; it is not known whether or not she possesses superhuman powers.

History: Nothing is known about Madame Fate's history save that she sought to become "staff assassin" to Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime.

(SSM II#109 (reference)) After making several attempts to contact the Kingpin directly, Madame Fate attacked two of his underlings, hoping to demonstrate her abilities.

(SSM II#109) The Kingpin, aware of Madame Fate's real name and evidently unimpressed with her performance, wrote her a letter declining her services, denying his criminal activities, and claiming to "have no need for assassins, staff or otherwise"; he ended his letter with a veiled threat should she continue her pursuit, and evidently she took the hint and sought employment elsewhere.

Comments: Created by Peter David.

Madame Fate's real name C.B. Kalish was an in-joke about Peter David's good friend, Carol B. Kalish (the former head of Marvel's sales department).

Profile by Ronald Byrd.

Clarifications: Madame Fate should not be confused with:

• Captain Fate (Jebediah Fate), a cursed pirate @ Man-Thing I#13
• Ian Fate, a reporter turned sorcerer who sought vengeance on Devil-Slayer @ Defenders I #104
• Fateball (Laura Broadbahr), member of the B-Sides @ B-Sides#1
• Fates (Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis), a.k.a. the Norns, trans-pantheon mystic entities @ Journey Into Mystery I#102
• MADAME WEB (Cassandra Webb) - mentor to spider-woman (Franklin), grandmother of Spider-Woman (Wittier), occasional ally of spider-man @ Amazing Spider-Man I#210
  --She is specifically included because I once saw a rant about how some idiot was making Madame Web a would-be assassin, blah, blah, blah. That was actually the comic reference to Madame Fate, not Madame Web.

• any other character using the title "Madame"

Last updated: 04/29/04

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