Spitfire (New Universe)

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Spitfire and the Troubleshooters
Issue #1 cover
Publisher Marvel Comics Schedule Monthly Format Ongoing Publication dates Oct 1986 - Oct 1987 Number of issues 13 Main character(s) Professor Jenny Swensen Creative team Creator(s) Eliot R. Brown Herb Trimpe

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, Swensen proved to be a popular character and was later included in the Pitt one-shot. Swensen was exposed to the Pitt itself, which was said to have shared its origins with the original White Event, was transformed into an armor-skinned Paranormal and later became a semi-regular character in the longer running DP7 comic, adopting the codename "Chrome" .

A different version of the character - Dr Jennifer Swann - was introduced in 2007, as part of Warren Ellis's newuniversal. a single-title reworking of the New Universe concepts.

Contents 1 Creators 1.1 Writers 1.2 Art 2 newuniversal 3 References

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[edit] Writers

• 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]

[edit] newuniversal

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Main article: newuniversal

An alternate version of Spitfire is introduced in newuniversal #2. Doctor Jennifer Swann works for Project Spitfire, continuing her father's work on the H.E.X. (Human Enhancement eXperimental) Initiative, working to create a "robot suit". In the wake of the White Event and police reports regarding Star Brand, Jenny's supervisor Philip L. Voight informs her that H.E.X funding has been increased by a factor of twenty and that the true mandate of Project Spitfire is to monitor and/or kill all superhumans.

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