SILVER WOLF

Real Name: Andreas Vadas

Identity/Class: Human (unrevealed citizenship)

Occupation: Criminal mastermind, mercenary;
    former second-in-command of the Wild Pack

Group Membership: Leader of his own shadow mercenary organization (Berecz, Joannes Boros, Jaworski, Artur Sobczak, others);
    formerly the Wild Pack (Silver Sable/Silver Sablinova, others)

Affiliations: Sword of Glory (Mr. Albasini)

Enemies: Jasper Angevine, Dominic Fortune, Silver Sable (Silver Sablinova)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile;
   formerly Symkaria, Middle Europe

First Appearance: Sable & Fortune#1 (March, 2006)

Powers/Abilities: As a unit of the Wild Pack, Vadas was well trained in hand-to-hand combat techniques and in the use of fire-weapons. Even middle-aged he could stand a harsh, head-to-head, martial arts fight against Silver Sable. As a Lieutenant he was a master planner and good manager of military resources.

Height: Unrevealed (6'2"; by approximation)
Weight: Unrevealed (190 lbs.; by approximation)
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Black

History:
(Sable & Fortune#3 (fb) - BTS) - Silver Sable's Wild Pack sometimes clashed with the terrorist organization called the Sword of Glory.

(Sable & Fortune#1) - Andreas Vadas, the lieutenant of the Wild Pack, was the second-in-command in Silver's organization. He took into his hands all the bureaucratic work that Silver Sable spurned.

    Vadas, however, had his own goals that were very different from the principles the Wild Pack was founded upon. Secretly, he created a rogue organization within the Wild Pack itself, performing criminal activities in order to gain wealth and power.

   He used the Wild Pack resources to create a serum that transformed innocent people into unwitting killers.

    To test the effectiveness of the serum, he dispatched some Wild Pack operatives to kidnap people to use as guinea pigs. Mostly runaways that no one would miss.

    The subjects were then conditioned to react to a simple phrase. The phrase triggered the killing behavior, so the subject would attack to kill the first person the subject saw before its eyes. As a side effect, the subject didn't remember anything of what happened immediately after the trigger activated it.

    When the effectiveness of the serum was proven, Vadas contacted the Sword of Glory, to sell them the formula.

    One of the subject was hacker Jasper Angevine, kidnapped in France by Sobczak and Boros, two rogue Wild Pack operatives. Angevine received the serum. The serum transformed him into a sleeper assassin used in a trap set up for Silver Sable.

    The Wild Pack wasn't the high-quality corporation that Silver Sable wanted anymore, but its effectiveness was also sabotaged by Vadas.

    Silver Sable was hired to save a hostage, a girl imprisoned in a castle in Hamburg. Sable didn't know that the girl was one of the sleeper assassins used by Vadas' men to test the serum. So, when the extraction team found the girl, she was already dead one day. A note on a paper mocked Silver Sable.

   Acknowledging that the Wild Pack wasn't useful anymore, Silver Sable made a drastic decision and dissolved the Wild Pack, all the personnel was dismissed.

    Vadas played the part of the friend, giving some hints to Silver, but he only pushed her in the direction he had planned. Firstly, he was more free to use the mercenaries as he needed. Secondly, he contacted Mr. Albasini, leader of the Sword of Glory, because the trap for Silver Sable was ready to be sprung.

   Vadas could not know that Angevine's parents hired a private investigator to find their son. The investigator, a young man named Dominic Fortune discovered that the kidnappings of the boy in France and the girl in Hamburg were connected. Two weeks after the death of the girl, Fortune managed to meet Sable in Monte Carlo. He persuaded her to work together to free the boy.

    Meanwhile, Boros and Sobczak had set up a spider-robot that had to video-transmit to Vadas and Albasini what happened in the hideout where Angevine was kept. Vadas' plan was that Angevine, triggered by the phrase, would attack and kill Silver Sable.

(Sable & Fortune#2) - It almost worked. Sable and Fortune freed Angevine, but Sable, unaware of the phrase's effect spoke it out loud to activate Angevine's assassin programming, but the boy only wounded Fortune. Nonetheless, Mr. Albasini was convinced by the demonstration. Vadas told him that they had already conditioned six sleeper assassins, each one very close to the Sword of Glory's enemies.

    Sable convinced Angevine, who was also a talented computer systems hacker, to help her to take down Vadas' organization.

    Hours later, Vadas was in his heavily guarded apartment in Symkaria.

    Silver Sable snuck in behind them and went to talk to Vadas in a peaceful manner while Fortune, in the room right under Vadas', tried to attach a bridge close enough to Vadas' laptop to the ceiling so Angevine could copy the data from Vadas' laptop onto the bridge.

(Sable & Fortune#3) - Vadas did not suspect anything, but due to intereference by his mercenaries Sable and Fortune only escaped with the incomplete data on the bridge.

    Two nights later, at Castle von Doom in Upstate New York, Vadas had the final business meeting with Mr. Albasini. After receiving the payment via bank transfer from Albasini, Vadas handed over the serum's formula and the activation software over to the terrorists. The program was needed to send the activation order to his operatives that were in contact with the sleeper assassins. But during the meeting Angevine hacked the laptop, stole the formula and the software and stopped Albasini from using the program. Albasini protested with Vadas because the program wasn't working but in that moment Sable attacked and killed the mercenaries and the terrorists. Vadas realized that his laptop had been hacked by Angevine so he used the trigger phrase to activate him. Angevine assaulted Fortune while a hard fight broke out between Silver Wolf and Silver Sable. Initially it seemed that Vadas had the upper hand, but Sable managed to beat him. Silver Wolf, however, was prepared and jumped off the castle's tower and flew away with his parachute. Fortune stopped the boy and Sable killed Mr. Albasini before he could activate the sleeper assassins.

    With the formula, Sable and Fortune could create an antidote for the serum. It took days for them to find the sleeper assassins and inject them with the antidote. Unfortunately, one of Vadas' agents, Berecz, misread Sable's abort directive, and activated the sleeper assassin Sam Kurokawa. Sam killed her boss Kirk Applewood.

Comments: Created by Brendan Cahill and John Burns.

   Vadas' involvement in the Wild Pack's problems at the time of the story was probably greater than what was seen in the final story. The series was originally scheduled to run for 6 issues as seen on the cover for #1, but by issue two the series was shortened to four issues.

   
    Apparently Albasini's payment reached Vadas' account, but it could also be a fake set up by Angevine.

Profile by Spidermay.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Silver Wolf has no known connections to:

• Silver Fox (Bayan), led rebellion against Shadowqueen, @ Doctor Strange II#42
• Silver Fox, old girlfriend of Wolverine, unknown association with Project X, seemingly killed by Psi-Borg, @ Wolverine II#50
• Silver One, 16th Century werewolf, killed by Solomon Kane, @ Savage Sword of Conan I#14/4
• any other "Silver" or "Wolf" character with a similar name.

images: (without ads)
Sable & Fortune#3, p11, pan5 (Vadas and Albasini)
Sable & Fortune#1, p9, pan4 (head shot)
Sable & Fortune#3, p18, pan3 (Vadas flying away)

Appearances:
Sable & Fortune#1 (March, 2006) - Brendan Cahill (writer), John Burns (artist), John Barber (editor)
Sable & Fortune#2 (April, 2006) - Brendan Cahill (writer), John Burns (artist), John Barber (editor)
Sable & Fortune#3 (May, 2006) - Brendan Cahill (writer), John Burns (artist), John Barber (editor)