| Spitfire and the Troubleshooters |
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Issue #1 cover
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| Publisher |
Marvel Comics |
| Schedule |
Monthly |
| Format |
Ongoing |
| Publication dates |
Oct 1986 - Oct 1987 |
| Number of issues |
13 |
| Main character(s) |
Professor Jenny Swensen |
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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 . 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's newuniversal. a single-title reworking of the New Universe concepts.
Creators
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)
Art
- 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]
Other versions
newuniversal
- 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.
