Mobster

A mobster is a criminal employed by an organized crime cartel or crime family. They may even be the head of said organization. Mobsters perform a variety of services for their parent group, including racketeering, managing underlings, managing whores if part of their mobster duties includes being a pimp, whacking people who need to be whacked, and greasing the palms of local government and law enforcement agencies for special privileges.

A mobster named Eddie Minelli once hired a famous puppeteer to put on an exclusive show for him. This particular brand of theatre involved turning a rival gangster named Don Paulie into a human puppet.

A group of mobsters had an arrangement with comic book store owner George "Moustache" Michaels, who used his Detroit based store, Comic Planet, as a front for their illegal activities. When George came up short on money that he owed to his mob confederates, they came into the place and murdered the owner. One of George's employees, Katie Carva, transformed into the vigilante hero Vampblade and slaughtered all of them.