Ace Exterminator

**The Exhilarating Adventures of Archibald Excelsior, Ace Exterminator** is a series of pulp comic books by Auntie Cleo. The cult classic series got cancelled after four issues.

## Characters

* Archibald Excelsior - The mustachioed hero and protagonist of the series who wields a pest extermination tool called the P.E.T.
* Manti-Mastermind - The leader of the Manti-Men who are trying to take over the cloud cities of Olympus.
* Sissak Sassafrass - The renowned Spindle Knight of Olympus and Manti-Mastermind's insectile second-in-command.
* Isabela Faim-Fatale - Dancing Queen of Manti-Mastermind who broke Archibald's heart in the first issue.
* An evil, unemployed scientist - A scientist with a laboratory from where the crystal canids escaped into Fairview in the second issue.
* King Alpha - The leader of the pack of crystal canids.
* Empress Crystalline Alpha - The mother of King Alpha. Archibald used her skull to fight King Alpha in the second issue.
* Buff Hardman - A nefarious Acquisitions Agent of SuperDark Reclamation and nemesis of Archibald. He has a mind control ray and is using it to control the Sprat Pack.
* Colossus - A large, molten, ancient creature with multiple eyes that resides under the crust of the prison planet Tartarus and "hungers for the flesh of the thousands."

## Groups

* Manti-Men - Green humanoid creatures with mantisaur-like features such as mandibles and antenna.
* Crystal canids - A group of blue canids with glowing pink eyes lead by King Alpha. They can shoot plasma-beams from their eyes.
* Sprat Pack - A super-villainous acapella band of small green sprats.
* SuperDark Reclamation - A "shadowy" shipping concern.

## Locations

* Cloud cities of Olympus - Cities located on the gas giant Olympus that got attacked by Manti-Men in the first issue.
* Fairview - A glitzy city that got turned to ash by plasma-beams from the eyes of crystal canids in the second issue.
* Laboratory - The laboratory of the evil, unemployed scientist from where the crystal canids escaped and attacked Fairview. Archibald fought King Alpha in the depths of the laboratory in the second issue.
* Subterranean metropolis of Hephaestus - Hephaestus Mining Company's productive corporate enclave that Buff Hardman is trying to take over.
* Tartarus - A maximum-security penitentiary.

## Issues

* The Plague of Manti-Men! Issue 1 of 4
* The Attack of the Crystal Canids! Issue 2 of 4
* The Invasion of the Flesh-Eating Sprats! Issue 3 of 4
* The Colossus Beneath Tartarus! Issue 4 of 4

## Ship decorations

* Archibald Excelsior Poster
* The Exhilarating Adventures of Archibald Excelsior, Issue 1
* The Exhilarating Adventures of Archibald Excelsior, Issue 2
* The Exhilarating Adventures of Archibald Excelsior, Issue 3
* The Exhilarating Adventures of Archibald Excelsior, Issue 4

## Additional information

* An issue of a limited edition Ace Exterminator comic costs 2 bits.
* Four researchers on Gorgon had an Ace Exterminator fanclub called the Secret Society of Super Science Sidekicks. They created a replica of Archibald's weapon, The P.E.T.
* The log names of the issues do not match the names on the comic book covers. On the comic book covers, the name of the series has "Exciting Adventures," while in the logs it is "Exhilarating Adventures," and the second issue is called "Invasion of the Man-Eating Sprats" on the cover instead of "Invasion of the Flesh-Eating Sprats" like in the log.