History:Young orphans, Malcolm Knight and his brother, Leo, were adopted by an old alcoholic named Edgar Fogg and raised in Liverpool. Malcolm Knight’s only friend was Thomas Fogg; they became accomplished bullies in their younger days. Although Malcolm tried to behave around Evelyn Fogg, Thomas’s sister, his friendship with Thomas mattered more than anything to him.
As adults, Malcolm and Thomas became contract killers for a Liverpudlian mobster. They accepted a contract on Professor Henry Lewis, a prize-winning physicist whose gambling problem led to serious debt trouble. At the North Umbrage Energy Research Laboratory, Malcolm and Thomas came upon the professor late one night. Thomas Fogg shot Professor Lewis, who fell back against his delicate machinery. A strange power was released. The two killers were caught in the energy backlash, which supposedly reduced them to their quantum structures. Although the laboratory exploded, Malcolm and Thomas walked away unscathed, but not unchanged.
The two hitmen became what they each were in their minds’ eyes. Malcolm Knight could now become a knight in shining armor, and Thomas Fogg was now as slippery and elusive as the mists enshrouding London. They made no attempt to keep their powers secret from their employers, who now valued the strange killers very highly.
Recently, Knight and Fogg accepted an assignment in America. The Kingpin hired them to eliminate the Arranger, formerly the Kingpin’s right-hand man. Out of desperation, the Arranger contacted Spider-Man and pleaded with him for help, but the web-slinger refused. The Arranger then called Hammerhead and the Chameleon, asking for protection and was refused in both cases.
As the Arranger was on the phone with Detective Farrow, promising to turn state’s evidence against the Kingpin, Fogg was hovering outside his window. The detective promised to call back in the morning, but the Arranger realized he would not live that long. Fogg readily agreed, as he oozed through the window and strangled the Arranger to death.
Spider-Man arrived on the scene, and was ambushed by Knight and Fogg. Knight and Fogg escaped as the police arrived.
However, Spider-Man tracked Knight and Fogg to England. Unfortunately, Spider-Man again met defeat; Knight was about to kill him when Evelyn Fogg happened upon the scene and begged Knight to spare the hero. Spider-Man was hurled into the river, where he hit his head and suffered temporary amnesia.
Leo Knight pulled Spider-Man from the river. He took Peter Parker’s costume, hoping no harm would come to his brother Malcolm if Peter could not remember who he was. However, Leo later changed his mind and returned Peter’s costume.
Eventually, Fogg realized that Leo’s amnesiac friend was Spider-Man and decided to finish the job of killing him. Arriving at Leo’s house, Fogg threw Spider-Man outside and strangled Leo, who was mistakenly thought to be dead. Knight blamed Spider-Man for his brother’s murder, but when it was revealed that Fogg had attacked Leo, Knight turned on his partner in a rage. In the end, Spider-Man knocked them both out with an exposed power cable.
At the time of this writing, Knight and Fogg are both under arrest and probably in prison in England for the murders they have committed. Given their powers, however, it is quite possible they will escape. Whether they remain partners is an other matter.