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gamblers
 

Name: gamblers

Classification: supporting characters supporting characters   group group   real/historical group real/historical group  

Type of Organization/Group: occupation

Number of group members listed below: 18

Character
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Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Hawk Bargo Hawk Bargo villain
  [pressed Gloria Baldwin to marry him to pay her gambling debt] Quality 1
Jake Brent villain
 indeterminate  [The Purple Oar (notorious roadhouse)] DC 1
Chance Chance (Nicholas Powell) villain
CBR Scale: M gambling, thrill-seeking
[1st app: Web of Spider-Man (vol. 1) #15 (June 1986)] Marvel 16
The Cincinnati Kid (Eric Stoner) non-feature lead character
  [young champion poker player] Little, Brown and Company 2
J.B. Desalvio villain
  [1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #48 (Jan. 1968)] Marvel 1
Dustin Deuce villain
 indeterminate  [ran Deuces Wild floating casino] DC 1
Benny Farrel villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #24 (May 1940)] DC 1
Jim Gale Jim Gale lead character
CBR Scale: M gambling
[won high-stakes poker game; was attacked by loser] DC 13
God of Luck (Jules Keen) supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D gambling; Greco-Roman deity (possibly)
[sought as Olympian God of Luck by Hermes] Marvel 1
Marty Kaye villain
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #16 (Sep. 1939)] DC 1
Terrence Markum Terrence Markum supporting character
  [paid off Gloria Baldwin's gambling debt then proposed to her] Quality 1
Preston Preston villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[owner of illegal gambling club] DC 1
Sam villain
  [Fixer's goon, when Daredevil hunted his father's killers] Marvel 2
Senor Suerte (Jaime Garcia) villain
  [Co-owner of gambling casinos.] Marvel 2
Snake-Eyes supporting character
CBR Scale: U gambling
[1st app: The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1) #161 (Oct. 1976)] Marvel 1
unnamed gambler gangster villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[1st app: Superman (vol. 1) #2 (Fall 1939)] DC 1
unnamed high roller gambler supporting character
  [lost card gang to Amos Fortune; tried to kill him] DC 1
Varrick villain
 indeterminate  [owner of notorious gambling club] DC 1

This character is in the following 2 stories which have been indexed by this website:
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1869): "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (mentioned)
Overland Monthly (vol. 1) #2 (Aug. 1868): "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (mentioned)