Madam Menace's henchmen

This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

Madam Menace may be a canny businesswoman in the field of arms dealing, but she can't work alone. That's why she has her hired mercenaries. Literally suited and booted, Menace's henchmen are as deadly as they are efficient. They follow after their master's sense of style with their distinctive face masks, the patterns of which can communicate secret messages to her socialite alter ego, Sunset Bain.

At least one henchman appears to be senior over the others, with the "domino mask" pattern of his balaclava extending down over his nose and mouth region. Known named henchmen include Santelli and Rollins. Menace's retinue also included a team of scientists.

Fiction

One of Madam Menace's gunrunning undertakings operated from a seemingly-deserted warehouse in Manhattan. A vagrant named Krager had tried to do business with the henchmen inside before, but his latest offering turned the lead henchman's head: Machine Man's left arm, swiped while the living android as busy battling Baron Brimstone. The lead henchmen decided this was worth Menace's attention, and so sent her a letter printed with the pattern of his own mask via special messenger.

The henchmen blindfolded Krager and transported him and his cargo to headquarters. Menace showed interest in the arm, but offered only a thousand dollars for it. When Krager tried to haggle, she took him to the lab where her scientists were developing flesh-eating roaches. Krager accepted her first offer.

Menace and her men set up a trap for Machine Man in an abandoned warehouse overlooking the Hudson River, using his arm as bait. The following day, the trap was sprung, and Machine Man was blasted with electromagnetic energy and imprisoned in a stasis field. After a brief tête-à-tête, Madam Menace and most of her henchmen – including the lead, or one with a similar mask – departed by boat for a pre-arranged business meeting, leaving Machine Man guarded by only two of the goons. By pushing against his confines, Machine Man overloaded the magnets and cracked the walls they were mounted on, before making short work of his two guards.

Madam Menace and her men met Zarkoff on a boat out in New York Bay, where she offered the terrorist the opportunity to fund a loyal army of robots. Negotiations were interrupted by the arrival of Machine Man. Zarkoff ordered his men to take out the robot and Menace while he attempted to escape with the arm. During the ensuing brawl, Zarkoff's and Menace's men fought, while Machine Man attempted to keep his frayed temper. The men that weren't flung overboard in the fight abandoned ship anyway, as Zarkoff had triggered it to explode. In the aftermath, Machine Man determined that no-one other than him had been caught in the blast. Arms and the Robot!