| Spitfire and the Troubleshooters | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | October 1986 - October 1987 |
| Number of issues | 13 |
| Main character(s) | Professor Jenny Swensen |
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| 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' 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).
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 created by the Black Event, and was transformed into an armor-skinned Paranormal, later becoming a semi-regular character in the longer running DP7 comic and adopting the codename Chrome.
A different version of the character - Dr Jennifer Swann - was introduced in 2007, as part of Warren Ellis' newuniversal. a single-title reworking of the New Universe concepts.
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An alternate version of Jenny Swensen is introduced as Dr. Jennifer Swan in Warren Ellis's re-imagining of New Universe called newuniversal. Dr. Jennifer Swann works for Project Spitfire, continuing her father's work on the H.E.X. (Human Enhancement eXperimental) Initiative, working to create a robotic battle suit. In the wake of the White Event and police reports regarding Kenneth Connell, Jennifer'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. It is revealed in newuniversal #3 that she was granted the Cipher glyph, becoming the very thing she was tasked to hunt down and kill.
An alternate version of Spitfire was rescued (and later recruited) by Quentin Quire; as part of Quire's version of the Exiles, in which the team helped the surviving heroes battled the Annihilation Wave that was led by a banished Hulk.[1]