JERIAH HALIDON

Real Name: Jeriah Halidon

Identity/Class: Human magic user

Occupation: Property owner, cult leader, drug pusher, terrorist

Group Membership: Halide Enterprises

Affiliations: Aregon, Checkers Freeman, Jesse, Samuel, unidentified agents

Enemies: Frank Gunzer, Wilton Jaynes, James MacDonald, Mick, Mikey (drug addict), Jennifer Montez, Sam, S.H.I.E.L.D. (Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Shannon Lawrence, others)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Halidon Building in New York City, New York

First Appearance: (BTS) The Call of Duty: The Precinct#3 (December, 2002); (seen) The Call of Duty: The Precinct#4 (December, 2002)

Powers/Abilities: Jeriah Halidon was an albino with too much money and a twisted belief system that made him a threat to humanity. He was not only an influential property and business owner, but was seemingly also heavily involved in the narcotics trade. He followed a demonic entity that granted him the power to raise submissive undead warriors using a specific ritual involving a pot and dismembered body parts.

   Though he was only ever seen using a sword to dismember one of his cult's followers, he was the owner of a wide arsenal of weapons, including missiles that could be fired from his off-shore boats, hundreds if not thousands of firearms and presumably even tanks. He also utilized a designer drug that was actually a volatile cocktail laced with a virus that could turn people into burning, highly contagious, though often unwilling agents of destruction. He owned dozens of canisters of the substance that drug was laced with to spread it across a whole city.

Height: Unknown (5'10"; by approximation)
Weight: Unknown (150 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Red
Hair: Blond

History:
(The Call#4 (fb) - BTS) - Jeriah Halidon was a rich man, who served the demon Aregon, and was served by a cult of followers. He lived under the belief that he would be served in the afterlife by all those he had enslaved during his life (including those poor souls he had killed).

(The Call#1-2, 4 (fb) - BTS) - On the anniversary of 9/11 Jeriah Halidon planned a massive terror attack on New York City with tanks and junkies that burst into flame after taking a drug provided to them by Halidon. They would not only spread the fire, but also a contagious disease on contact that would turn more people into burning mutates like them. He also planned to release the biotoxin into the air of Manhattan by blowing up canisters on a building owned by him. As the culmination of his terrorist attack he would blow up the Statue of Liberty and a lot of the Eastern Seaboard with off-shore missiles.

(The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#4 - BTS) - Drug dealer Checkers Freeman gave Halidon's drug to some of his clients and told them they could get more at the Knox Building at 9:00 PM on the sixteenth floor. Drug addict Mikey had bought drugs from Halidon before directly.

(The Call of Duty: The Precinct#3 - BTS) - Gunzer found a thankyou note addressed to Checkers in his East Side apartment in Manhattan. It was written on a paper with a Halide Enterprises letterhead, which was inside the Knox Building.

(The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#4 - BTS) - Gunzer returned to the Knox Building to investigate Halide Enterprises and ran into a group of firemen, including James MacDonald. He also ran into drug addict Mikey, who revealed to him that he was told that he could get a drug he sampled earlier on the 16th floor. Gunzer, a colleague and Mikey took the elevator to the 16th floor while more drug addicts arrived and suddenly ignited.

(The Call of Duty: The Precinct#4) - On the 16th floor Frank, Sam and Mikey followed some junkies and the sound of a drum to a room after taking off most of their clothes to blend in with the other junkies. They found Jeriah Halidon standing on a platform at the center of the room, telling the junkies that the time of Aregon had come while chanting mystic words. Mikey told Gunzer and Sam that the albino was big time drug pusher Halidon. Halidon then began to float in the air while the drum sounds continued and offered the junkies to fill themselves up on his drugs. Mikey noticed that these pills were nothing like he had ever bought from Halidon before, but the drums made him go crazy. Halidon noticed the cops and Mikey breaking apart the pills to check what was inside and then ordered Mikey, who had fallen under his control, to kill the cops. Mikey took Sam's gun, but he shot Halidon instead of the cops because he couldn't stand the drum sound. Halidon's wound healed almost immediately and he confronted Gunzer, who had been on his trail for some time. Halidon mocked Gunzer because he had no clue what he was actually dealing with and the powers he wielded. Halidon somehow influenced Gunzer's wife Mattie with the drums (even though she was far away) to hook up with his brother Joey and then told Frank about it. Halidon got closer to Gunzer the whole time despite warnings and Gunzer just unloaded his gun on him, but Halidon just laughed it off and pushed the bullets out of chest. Halidon revealed that the forensic labs could've learned something from the oily residue Gunzer had found on the parking garage where the drug dealer burned to death and the DEA would've loved to learn more about the chemical properties of his drug, but bureaucracy had delayed all that and it was too late to stop Halidon's plans to turn addicts into living torches with his drugs and release them all over Manhattan to burn everything to the ground. With several junkies in the room already burning, Halidon had Frank, Sam and Mikey trapped in the room. Sam tossed a chair through the window and caused a backdraft that caused him to fall to his death. Halidon mocked Frank for his partner's death and what was going on between his brother and wife. Frank finally had enough and tackled Halidon through a door and then tried to get to safety with Mikey through a horde of burning addicts.

(The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#5 - BTS) - The Knox Building was burning and MacDonald was informed that the fire threatened to spread a biotoxin on the roof throughout the city. James MacDonald and his crew were on their way to the roof and were warned about the burning addicts and the fire on the 16th floor. MacDonald and his crew decided to get around the addicts to get to the roof and asked to send someone else to deal with the fire on the 16th floor.

(The Call of Duty: The Wagon#4 - BTS) - Paramedic Jennifer Montez and Shannon Lawrence made it to the roof first using a fire escape ladder. Lawrence told Montez about the biotoxin on the roof that was a cocktail of the plague and other engineered diseases. The containers were not opened yet, but a timer was set to open them in two minutes and the women had no clue how to stop it.

(The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#6 - BTS) - James, Mick and their crew fought their way through burning addicts to get to the roof. On the roof Montez and Lawrence tried to manually close the tank valves before the biotoxin was released. Montez was hit by some of the biotoxin, but Lawrence had an antidote on her which she injected Montez with. A helicopter with Montez's husband aboard was called down by Lawrence, who ordered some firemen to take the tanks to the harbor and dump them there. James and Mick finally made it to the roof and the helicopter took off. Mick held back Jennifer's husband because she had been infected and stayed behind on the roof with MacDonald. They were attacked by Jennifer's ex-partner and fellow paramedic Randy, who was burning like the addicts, and MacDonald sacrificed himself to save Montez, who was in the end picked up by the helicopter. The Knox Building burned down and within the ruins MacDonald survived as another infected burning man.

(The Call#2 (fb) - BTS) - Halidon's men kidnapped Shannon Lawrence after she was released from hospital.

(The Call#1 (fb)) - Shannon, who was secretly an undercover agent working for S.H.I.E.L.D., was interrogated by Halidon because he knew from camera footage that she had made it to the roof with Jennifer Montez and helped thwart his plan to spread a biotoxin across Manhattan. Halidon just wanted to know from her why his expensive plan to terrorize New York and the entire United States had failed, but Lawrence wasn't giving him the answers he wanted to hear and instead tried to lie, unaware he already knew what she had done. Halidon's henchmen cut off all the fingers on her left hand because she kept lying before she passed out and they moved her to a warehouse. She woke up bound to a table and Halidon made it clear that she was going to die, but that it would be either painless or very painful depending on what she told him. He finally showed her the footage of her saving the day and ruining his plans before asking her why his elaborate plan had been ruined by two cops, a fireman and a paramedic when no one but him knew about his whole plan. Halidon then had his henchman Jesse threaten to cut off more fingers with a ruinsaw. Shannon told Halidon everything about how she overheard Gunzer talking about how he had learned from a little girl about the terrorist attack and she lost four fingers on her right hand for it because it sounded so ridiculous and she didn't know who the girl actually was. She claimed that she had followed Jennifer Montez into the building because she believed her to be the girl and hoped that Halidon didn't know that she was lying again. He told her how she closed the valves, how Jennifer got sprayed, which made Halidon happy again, and how they got rid of the tanks by dumping them into the harbor. She told him how Jennifer's infection broke out while they were in the helicopter and about the hazmat team, which she claimed had been called by Gunzer even though it was sent by Nick Fury. Shannon lost her final finger and she quickly spurted out that the fireman was yelling something about the Statue of Liberty. Halidon told his henchmen to stop because he wanted to hear more about what the fireman had said. Shannon told Halidon that Mick was screaming about the Statue of Liberty and that it was a creepy little ghost girl, which led everyone involved to the Knox Building. Halidon ordered to kill every fireman, policeman or any other person that came into contact with the Knox Building fire, the "little girl" or heard about an attack on the Statue of Liberty. He wanted their families and friends killed as well just to make sure. He finally had mercy and told his henchman Samuel to release the blades to grant Shannon a quick death. She was impaled by several dozen falling blades. Halidon watched and then ordered his henchmen to dump her body and burn it. Halidon himself left to dine at Nobu.

(The Call#2 - BTS) - Wilton Jaynes wanted to talk with Detective Gunzer about the Knox Building fire, but made it clear that he would not be part of the investigation because the case was connected to Halidon.

(The Call#4) - Halidon and his cultists moved to Liberty Island and slew the local authorities near the Statue of Liberty. Halidon then created more of his undead agents by slaying one of his cultists, who was was willing to sacrifice his life to their demonic lord Aregon. He ordered other cultists to finish dismembering their fellow cultist and offer his pieces to their master so that 40 more undead agents would rise in his place.

   S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military flew to Liberty Island to take the fight to Halidon and his cult and thwart his terrorist attack after mutated firefighter MacDonald had exposed Halidon's whole plan to Fury, which he had learned from the creepy ghost girl that was possessing mutated paramedic Jennifer Montez. MacDonald knew that Halidon would move up his timetable, knowing that Shannon might have already exposed the truth to Nick Fury.

   Halidon summoned more of his undead warriors while S.H.I.E.L.D. and their allies, including Gunzer's former boss Wilton Jaynes, took the fight to his cult. Fury, following a tip from Montez, ordered Dugan to take out Halidon's boats before they could fire their missiles.

   The mutated trio of MacDonald, Mick and Montez went inside the Statue of Liberty to take down Halidon and while Mick held back Halidon's undead agents, MacDonald and Montez moved up the Statute of Liberty. S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Shannon Lawrence held on to a rocket S.H.I.E.L.D. couldn't stop from being fired at the Statue of Liberty. Meanwhile MacDonald and Montez found Halidon at the top of the Statue, but he was not afraid to die because it was his plan all along and was sure that he had sent enough souls to the afterlife that would serve him in the afterlife. MacDonald didn't care much for Halidon's mystical belief and just blasted him with fire, burning Halidon alive. MacDonald and Montez were holding hands and inadvertently healed each other doing so while the final missile headed for the Statue of Liberty, but it never hit because Agent Lawrence ripped apart the missile's controls with her metal claws until it turned around and dropped into the ocean.

Comments: Created by Bruce Jones & Tom Mandrake.

   People infected and mutated by Halidon's drug/virus appeared in almost all issues. These included Call of Duty: The Precinct#1, 3-5, Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#3-6, Call of Duty: The Wagon#1-4 and the Call#1-4. Not sure if he specifically should be considered BTS for all these issues as he had help distributing the drug to addicts.

   What happened before we even heard of Halidon. In Precinct#1 a small time drug dealer was burned alive in the Knox Building parking garage and Sgt. Gunzer got involved in the investigation. In Precinct#2 Checkers sent someone after Gunzer because he kept sniffing around the Knox Building. After the failed assassination attempt Gunzer went after Checkers directly in Precinct#3 and found the thankyou note for Checkers' help presumably from Halidon.

   The three Call of Duty titles preceding the quickly cancelled Call ongoing were so interconnected that you had to read one issue of one title and then the story continued in another title. I am not sure how much of a problem the reading order was during its original publication because I read it on Marvel Unlimited, but online there were only three instances that told you which issue to read next.

I believe the reading order to be:
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#1 (August, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#1 (September, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#2 (September, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Wagon#1 (October, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#2 (October, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#3 (October, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Wagon#2 (November, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#3 (November, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#4 (November, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#4 (December, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Wagon#3 (December, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#5 (December, 2002)
The Call of Duty: The Wagon#4 (January, 2003)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#6 (January, 2003)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#5 (January, 2003)

   The Call was cancelled and even though the story was finished, it was very obvious because the ending felt so rushed. It also went into a very different direction with the involvement of S.H.I.E.L.D. and actual powers for the protagonists of the preceding titles. It was a continuation, but a weird one.

   Even before the Call it was very clearly set in the Marvel Universe with a cameo by Spider-Man and a mentioned of the Fantastic Four's Thing.

   These titles have absolutely nothing to do with the Call of Duty games. Comics connected to those games do exist, but not at Marvel.

   This profile took me nearly a year to finish because I got so annoyed by how the story progressed. Not a fan of Chuck Austen's writing, but maybe the presumed early cancellation was more to blame than just him.

This profile was completed on 09/26/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary event.

Profile by Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Jeriah Halidon has no known connections to:

agents

(The Call#4 (fb) - BTS) - Halidon created his undead agents by putting parts of dismembered followers loyal to him into a massive pot. He then used an incantation and if his demon lord Aregon deemed the victim a viable sacrifice, forty undead agents would rise from the pot, which though not invulnerable against bullets could ultimately only be slain again by cutting out their hearts.

(The Call#3) - Halidon's agents began killing everyone that had gotten close to the Knox Building fire, including families and everyone at Gunzer's police department. Wilton Jaynes and a few others survived the attack with a little help from the heavily mutated Gunzer, who had mysteriously survived burning alive in his car.

   Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. were looking for Halidon, but he had gone underground. Fury was shocked Halidon's men were able to kill fifteen families simultaneously and that they had more manpower than S.H.I.E.L.D., who were trying to protect these civilians.

   Halidon's men attacked the fire station where Mick worked, but they fought back and got the better of Halidon's undead agents, who didn't stay down that easily.

   S.H.I.E.L.D. came to the aid of the police and firefighters, destroying Halidon's undead agents. They were unable to save MacDonald's ex-wife and her boyfriend because MacDonald wouldn't tell them where to find her. S.H.I.E.L.D. also killed Gunzer, not realizing that he was actually aiding the police against Halidon's agents.

(The Call#4) - Halidon created more undead agents on Liberty Island while S.H.I.E.L.D. and their allies attacked. They were ultimately all destroyed by S.H.I.E.L.D. and their allies, including firefighter Mick, who burned some of them to a crisp with his superhuman fire powers.

--The Call#3 (The Call#3-4

images:
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#4, p6 (main)
The Call#1, p14, pan4 (head shot)
The Call#1, p7, pan3 (in white suit)
The Call#4, p26, pan1 (death)
The Call#4, p7, pan3 (followers and Halidon creating new agents) The Call#3, p6, pan3 (undead agents)
The Call#4, p13, pan2 (new undead agents rising)

Appearances:
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#3 (December, 2002) - Bruce Jones (writer), Tom Mandrake (artist), Ralph Macchio (editor)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#4 (November, 2002) - Chuck Austen (writer), David Finch (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
The Call of Duty: The Precinct#4 (December, 2002) - Bruce Jones (writer), Tom Mandrake (artist), Ralph Macchio (editor)
The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood#5 (December, 2002) - Chuck Austen (writer), David Finch (pencils), Art Thibert (inks), Ralph Macchio (editor)
The Call#1-4 (June-September, 2003) - Chuck Austen (writer), Pat Olliffe (pencils), John Livesay (inks), Brian Smith (editor)

First Posted: 09/30/2026
Last updated: 09/26/2026

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