Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Thomas Morgan
- Team 7
- Arclight (Main story and flashback)
- Backlash (Main story and flashback)
- Bulleteer (Main story and flashback)
- Deathblow (Main story and flashback)
- Grifter (disguised as Joe Brockmeyer) (appears in both flashback and main story)
- Slaphammer (Main story and flashback)
- Topkick (Main story and flashback)
- Wraparound (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Joe Brockmeyer (Main story and flashback)
- Max Cash (Main story and flashback)
- Douglas Killory
- Alejandro Rios (Main story and flashback)
- Alicia Turner (Main story and flashback)
- Zealot (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- International Operations (Main story and flashback)
- Miles Craven
- Gabriel Newman
- Black Razors
- Frank Colby
- Sgt. Darman
- Daemonites (Main story and flashback)
- Col. Escobar (Main story and flashback)
- Marconi (Main story and flashback)
- Stefano (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Matthew Callahan (Main story and flashback)
- Nicole Callahan (Main story and flashback)
- Rachel Callahan (Dies in flashback)
- Eddie Chang (Main story and flashback) (Cameo)
- Gambit (Cameo) (off-panel)
- Lorna Del Gracci (Main story and flashback)
- Peter Del Gracci (Main story and flashback)
- Tazy Del Gracci (Main story and flashback)
- Sam Del Gracci (Main story and flashback)
- Bobby Lane (Main story and flashback) (Cameo)
- Snipe (Main story and flashback)
- Maj. Brady
- Rudy
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Synopsis for 1st story
Morgan meets FBI Agent Joe Brockmeyer, a friend of Grifter, in Chicago. He tells Morgan about Grifter’s background: after leaving home as a teenager to escape his mob boss stepfather, Cash became the getaway driver for an armed robbery crew. During a heist, he stopped one robber from shooting Brockmeyer so the agent convinced him to join IO instead of go to prison. Miles Craven and John Lynch then recruited him for Team 7. Years later, Gabriel Newman helped Cash escape IO, and he became a mercenary in South America. When he turned on a client to prevent a massacre, he went to prison. Cash escaped and returned to the U.S. only to learn his mother had died. Deathblow recruited him to help Chang and Fairchild disappear with their children and keep them out of IO custody. He witnessed Black Razors led by Frank Colby murder Callahan and his wife, and Cray had to hold him back from taking revenge. In Washington, D.C., after a brief confrontation with Colby, Cash was attacked by Daemonites. Zealot saved him, and he disappeared with her soon thereafter. Morgan thinks Colby might have valuable information and leaves. After he departs, “Brockmeyer” removes his mask, revealing himself to have been Grifter in disguise.
Trivia
- The story of Grifter's escape from the South American prison is told in WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age #1. The cellmate who speaks to him from off-panel is Gambit of the X-Men.