Mephisto has matched wits with every generation of the Wilde clan except for the founder, Professor Wilde, including the Wilde Boys, Doc Wilde, Adam and Eve Wilde and the Wilde Kids. “By exactly WHO?” General Winfield met her eye with a steely gaze. “By whom?” “By top men.” “We ARE ‘Top Men’,” Myra said suspiciously. And they will be studied.” “Oh?” Kittredge asked. Your theory regarding this ‘Mephisto’ person is compelling, but whether or not these things came from another world, they need to be studied. I’m having all of these commandeered by the United States Army for study. “I’m sorry, Doctors, Professors, but this has gotten far too complex. There’s a nice vignette titled Doc Wilde and the Horror at Grover’s Mill featuring Professor Quartermane and the Brain Trust. However, the Masters called and told him to get to New York pronto and investigate. Mephisto was not involved in the 1938 Halloween 'hoax' involving a Martian landing at Grover’s Mill. There’s a nice little Electric Lady vignette featuring the Dark Avenger. The whole 1930s New York scene with costumed villains creating even more fantastic capers was mostly done with out-of-work 3rd rate vaudeville performers and crooked cops to cover for organized crime activity. He creates the whole idea of the costumed super-villain during a card game in 1932 with a number of New York Mafia hot-shots. The Red Brotherhood sends him to New York to get into the organized crime scene there. He creates a new scam featuring the Master of the World. He creates a top Broadway act as Mephisto the Mentalist all the while he’s ripping off the upper crust.Īfter another runin with the Dark Avenger in 1928, the Red Brotherhood sends him to Chicago, heavier by two. It appears to be wherever it wants to be. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.’Īfter a long time, which turns out to be only five years (1924) he gets turned loose, only to notice that the monastery seems to have moved. They train him for long years in many mystic arts and turn him loose to wreak havoc, that being their idea of the way to perfect mankind.Īs Orson Welles said in ‘The Third Man’, ‘In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. The mysterious voice turns out to be the Red Brotherhood, a band of monks whose motives are either deranged or murky. Then it took him several months to actually find them. He was contacted by a mysterious telephone voice and told to contact them when he got out-which he did in about three weeks. He split from the vaudeville act after WW I ended in 1918 and ran a scam in a few third-tier midwestern cities, then he got caught in Denver and sent up for 10 years. He learned every underhanded trick as well as the big one - the audience wants to be fooled, so give them the razzle-dazzle and they’ll go along with almost anything Mephisto was born Thomas Ferral Meitner in 1894, the son of a family in a vaudeville troupe. Whether there's any connection with Peril's family business, Townshend Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee, is at this time strictly conjectural. There is no way to tell exactly when, so there is no way to place it into the timeline. The interview takes place sometime in 2007 prior to September. Thomas claims to be the notorious (and presumed dead) Mephisto the Mentalist. Thank you.Ī reporter, Dustin Redford, interviews Thomas Townsend, the CEO of Townsend Communication and Entertainment. It's impossible to tell whether Mephisto is relating a real incident or simply yanking "Redford's" chain. Please do not, let me repeat, NOT, make links to anything in this entry unless it's confirmed as a real character in another story. I haven't, for example, mentioned the several dozen heroes and villains scattered throughout the reminisce. It covers decades in the life of Mephisto the Mentalist. Please see the discussion page for the basis for the many pop culture references in the story. It adds a lot of background info about the Whateley Universe. Razzle Dazzle is a story in three parts written by Bek D. Some information on the subject of this article may be found on pages that link here. You can help Whateley Academy Wiki by expanding it with information.
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