"We got business tonight on Dough Row... important business. Why is important...? Cuz our colors are getting goosed by goons on the street... They're laughin' at the Studs, sayin' the dance we called will never come off. But it's gonna come off... No matter how much green it takes! We're gonna dance to a real band... and the whole neighborhood's gonna know. When the Studs strunt their colors... ain't nobody even smiles" -- Shank, leader of Savage Studs gang.

They confronted Moon Knight at Dough Row, in Brooklyn but they scattered when masked hero beaten his leader, Shank.

They started to act like the big boys... extortion, protection rackets.

Their clubhouse was a wicked little affair under the wharves there.