Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Stryke Force (Origin) (Main story and flashback)
- Black Anvil (Joins Team) (Main story and flashback)
- Bloodbow (Joins Team) (Main story and flashback)
- Icarus (Joins Team) (Main story and flashback)
- Phade (Tommy Rourke) (First Appearance) (Joins Team) (Main story and flashback)
- Morgan Stryker (Joins Team) (appears in both flashback and main story)
- Tempest (Joins Team) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Gregory Corben (Main story and flashback)
- Cyberforce
- Killrazor (Main story and flashback)
- Chip McNally
- Timmie
Villains:
- Mason (Only appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Sister Anne
- Maniguan military
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Synopsis for 1st story
At Cyberforce’s Subplex, team leader Heatwave interrupts Stryker’s target practice to ask about a missing device. Stryker feigns ignorance, and Heatwave criticizes him for using Cyberforce equipment for Stryke Force. After Heatwave leaves, Cyblade tells Stryker that Stryke Force could use Heatwave’s discipline and wonders what holds the group together. Stryker ponders that himself, remembering how Stryke Force started…
A former colleague of Stryker’s named Mason called him seeking help rescuing two agents from the Maniguan military. Stryker agreed, but when Heatwave refused to involve Cyberforce, he decided to recruit his own team. First, he met with Bloodbow and Phade, a young mutant who could phase solid matter. Then, the three of them flew to the South Pacific and recruited Black Anvil as he prepared to jump into a volcano as a television stunt. Joined by final member Icarus, they flew to Manigua to execute the mission. Black Anvil and Phade broke into the Maniguan compound but found no hostages. Phade hacked the military’s computers and discovered the whole job was a setup. As troops approached, Stryker ordered the team to retreat. Black Anvil escaped the compound, but Phade simply vanished. Afterward, Stryker confronted Mason who revealed he really hired Stryker—a former U.S. soldier—to attack the Maniguan government so as to embarrass the U.S. government into staying out of Manigua. That way, Mason’s drug cartel employers could take over the country. Mason then had his own superhuman operative, Tempest, knock out Stryker and Bloodbow. They woke up in chains in a room with a restrained Killrazor. Black Anvil and Icarus arrived and defeated Tempest while Stryker freed himself and Bloodbow. Bloodbow freed Killrazor while Stryker confronted Mason again, but Mason killed himself rather than fail the cartel. After explaining the situation to the Maniguan military, they give Mason’s drug money to Stryker and let him take custody of Tempest. Stryker returned to the U.S. and donated the money to an orphanage for mutant children. Icarus suggested they call their new team Stryke Force.
Notes
- The cover date of this issue is July 1995, but the date listed in the indicia is June 1995.