WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams (1992) #21

WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams #21
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Art by: Jim Lee
Cover Date	July, 1995
Issue Details
Original Price	$2.50

1st story
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Alan Moore
Penciler(s)	Travis Charest
Inker(s)	Troy Hubbs
Letterer(s)	Richard Starkings Comicraft
Editor(s)	Sarah Becker Jonathan Peterson

Appearing in 1st story

Featured Characters:

• WildC.A.T.s
  • original team
    • Emp
    • Maul
    • Void
    • Voodoo
    • Warblade
    • Zealot
  • new team (First Appearance)
    • Condition Red (Max Cash) (Joins Team)
    • Mr. Majestic (Joins Team)
    • Savant (Joins Team)
    • TAO (Tactical Augmented Organism) (First Appearance) (Joins Team)

Villains:

• Ladytron (Maxine Manchester) (First Appearance) (appears in both flashback and main story)
• Donald Levine (Single appearance)
• Lucius Simpson (Single appearance)
• Vic Lazarr (First Appearance)
• Zombots (First Appearance)

Other Characters:

• Backlash (Cameo)
• Deathblow (On a TV or computer screen)
• Fuji (Cameo) (off-panel)
• Grunge (Cameo) (shadow only)
• Savage Dragon (Cameo) (shadow only)
• Soldier (Cameo) (shadow only)
• Dr. Ruark (Single appearance)

Locations:

• Wildstorm Universe
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • United States of America
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • New York City, New York
      • Manhattan
        • Halo Corporation

Items:

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Vehicles:

• Primus One

Synopsis for 1st story

Believing the WildC.A.T.s dead and having inherited Halo from Emp, Savant and Mr. Majestic are forming a new team.  After failing to recruit Soldier, Savage Dragon, Grunge, Fuji, and Backlash, Savant decides to pursue more morally ambiguous candidates.  She begins with Grifter’s younger brother Max, working undercover in the mafia for IO.  Giving him the codename Condition Red, she compels him to join by threatening to expose crimes he has committed.  Next, she and Majestic recruit the synthetic genius Tactical Augmented Organism a.k.a. TAO from a Halo subsidiary, Optigen.  Despite Majestic’s objections, Savant’s next candidate is armed robber and killer Maxine Manchester a.k.a. Ladytron.  Transformed into a powerful cyborg by prison experiments, she recently escaped and has been attacking other criminals.  The team decides to intercept her at her next probable target, a high-level heroin deal set to take place in Chicago.  They go undercover at the restaurant where the meet is being held, and, within minutes, Ladytron drives a car into the building and attacks.  While Majestic fights the drug dealers’ undead Zombot bodyguards, Ladytron fends off Savant and Condition Red.  TAO subdues her by shooting a bag of heroin which she then inhales, causing her to pass out.  Meanwhile, in deep space, the original WildC.A.T.s are still alive aboard the Kherubim ship.

Notes

• This issue includes a pin-up of Zealot by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti.
• This issue is reprinted in:
  • WildC.A.T.s: Homecoming trade paperback (1999);
  • Alan Moore's Complete WildC.A.T.s trade paperback (2007).