Hank Barton

created by Jim DelRosso

Permission character

Defining Traits

• hard-nosed interviewer, with an uncanny knack for knowing when someone is lying
• possessed of the deductive intellect of a master sleuth, and the smooth dissimulation of an experienced con-man
• crack shot with a pair of .45s
• accomplished boxer
• the only American not employed by the government to ever make the Third Reich's Most Wanted list

History

Hank Barton is a globe-trotting, gun-toting, two-fisted reporter for the New York Times. Hank came to the Odysseus Group's attention after taking part in an expedition to Antarctica from which few returned alive, and fewer sane. The experience did little to dull Hank's desire to learn more about the wondrous and strange secret paths of the world, though it did harden his resolve to oppose those who'd walk those paths for their own selfish ends.

Since joining up with Odysseus, Hank has been involved in numerous missions, which have earned him the ire of many a villain, and the reluctant friendship of several others (usually those who -- like Doktor Friedrich Von Luft -- would like to get an interview published).

Notable Exploits

With The Odysseus Group -- New York Chapter

• Foiled The Kommandant's plans to utilize eldritch resources and ancient super-technology to further the Third Reich's war effort, freeing a noble race of super-intelligent gorillas from servitude along the way. See the Albertine Rift Mining Incident.
• Recovered the Empire State Building from supernatural thieves. See The Empire State Building Vanishment.
• Battled fishmen.
• Took the war to the Nazi in Berlin itself, in a series of harrowing adventures that culminated with an escape from The Kommandant's deathtraps and a battle with the villain on a super-zeppelin.

Single-handedly

• Derailed the Nazi space program.
• Discovered and eliminated the influence of the Cult of the Yellow Mask upon New York City's upper crust.
• Negotiated the end of the Bloody Christmas gang war.
• Under Other Circumstances (draft)

Known Associates

Miles Thompson

Doc Furious

Roderick Von Drake

Albert

Major Enemies

The Kommandant