When the original Mantis retired from the life of crime, his sister took up the identity. This much more violent Mantis was responsible for a series of murders along America’s eastern seaboard and was eventually tracked down and brought to justice by Vespa.
Seeing his sisters imprisonment as a personal insult, the original Mantis returned while his sister was incarcerated,
But now Lady Mantis, as she has come to be known, has escaped from prison and has continued her killing ways.
Lady Mantis
