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Hellfire Club
A Marvel Comics team.
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Aliases | - |
| First Appearance | X-Men #122 (1979) |
| Base | Hellfire Club mansions in London, New York, Hong Kong, Paris, and elsewhere |
History
The Hellfire Club was established as an exclusive British gentlemen's club by Englishman Sir Francis Dashwood, Scotsmen John Stuart (Third Earl of Bute) and Duncan Munro and others in the 1760s. Members Sir Patrick Clemens and Lady Diana Knight soon emigrated to North America, where they founded the Hellfire Club's New York chapter in an abandoned church located at what is now Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's East Side. Today, the Hellfire Club is an overt, worldwide organization. Famous for its lavi... read more
