Spitfire (New Universe)

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Issue #1 cover

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (renamed to Codename: Spitfire with issue #10) was a short-lived comic book series from Marvel Comics's New Universe line. It followed "Spitfire" (Professor Jenny Swensen) and a group of brilliant but eccentric college students as they used various high-tech exoskeletons to combat crime (the M.A.X. Armor, standing for Man-Assisted eXperimental). Since this did not fit the original concept of the New Universe as a world which was just like ours until the appearance of "Paranormals", the series was cancelled ^{[citation needed]}. However, Jenny Swensen proved to be such a popular character, that she was said to have been exposed to "The Pitt", a disaster which shared its origins with the original White Event, and had subsequently been turned into an armor-skinned Paranormal called "Chrome". Swensen then became a semi-regular character in the longer running DP7 comic.

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Eliot R. Brown - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
Gerry Conway - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-6 (October 1986-March 1987)
Jack Morelli - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
Roy Thomas - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5 (February 1987)
Cary Bates - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6-9 (March 1987-June 1987)
Cary Bates - Codename: Spitfire #10 (July 1987)
Fabian Nicieza - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987); ; "The Sublet" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]; "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]
Len Kaminski - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)

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Herb Trimpe - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-2, 5 (October 1986-November 1986, February 1987)
Ron Wagner - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #3 (December 1986)
Todd McFarlane - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #4 (January 1987)
Vincent Giarrano - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6 (March 1987)
Alan Kupperberg - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #7-9 (April 1987-June 1987)
Marshall Rogers - Codename: Spitfire #10 (July 1987)
Grant Miehm - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987)
Javier Saltares - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
Dave Hoover - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
Mark Bagley - "Healing Time" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]
Donald C. Hudson - "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]

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This article or section contains information about a scheduled or expected comic book release, or a series already in progress. It is likely to contain tentative information and the content may change dramatically as the product release approaches and more information becomes available.

Marvel has announced that Writer Warren Ellis and Illustrator Salvador Larocca, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the New Universe, are working on a single-title re-imagining of the New Universe saga entitled newuniversal.

Ellis has stated that "the first sequence revolves around the old 'lead' books from New Universe"[1] and has confirmed that Spitfire will be included as part of this storyline.