Riding a wave of anti-mutant sentiment, rich civic leader Nelson Bunker Krellman was elected to New British Parliament largely due to his anti-mutie rhetoric. On his election, he began enacting anti-mutant laws that forbade mutants from owning property, having jobs, or even congregating on the streets. To enforce the harsh new laws Kreelman's quasi-official anti-mutant 'peacekeeping' patrols, the Kreelers, inflict brutality upon the mutants living in a New Britain devastated by nuclear war, sending many of the more able-bodied to work in experimental labour camps far from the populace. Arch anti-mutant politician Nelson B. Kreelman is also the mutant hero, Johnny Alpha's father... —description from the publisher