Comic Book: Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (1986 series)

Description:
A New Universe series about a team of tech-savvy college students who operate a high-powered battlesuit, blending grounded engineering challenges with street-level action as they take on threats beyond their control.

Data Sheet:

Oct 1986 to Jun 1987

1986

N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Spitfire
(Jennifer Swensen)

Plus: Eduardo Giotti, Teresa Roberts (Terry Roberts), Troubleshooters.

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1
(Oct 1986)

Comics Index

Indexed Comics: 9

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Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1

October 1986
"Beginnings"
Script: Gerry Conway
An armed intruder breaks into the laboratory of Dr. Karl Swensen at Krotze International, demanding the designs for his robotic exosuit. Swensen refuses and triggers a countdown on his own equipment, but the intruder — protected by a M.A.X. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #2

November 1986
"Behemoth"
Script: Gerry Conway
At Parker's Hill, New Hampshire, Jenny Swensen tests the limits of the M.A.X. suit — lifting boulders and measuring its strength-to-weight ratio — while her companion Andy monitors the telemetry equipment brought from M.I.T. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #3

December 1986
"Counter Attack"
Script: Gerry Conway
Flying over Boston in the M.A.X. suit, Jenny Swensen nearly collides with a police helicopter — a sharp reminder that she has little experience piloting over a city. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #4

January 1987
"Revelation"
Script: Gerry Conway
The issue opens with Prof. Richard Faylen fleeing through a city, hiding in cheap hotels for weeks since Krotze's disappearance. He makes it to his car, believing he has escaped — but Steel Hawk has planted a bomb in the ignition, and Faylen is killed in the explosion. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5

February 1987
"Destruction!"
Script: Gerry Conway
At 2:44 a.m., Eduardo Giotti, Tim Ferris, Eric, and Detective Eric Chin break into the Boston Police Department's evidence warehouse. Giotti climbs into the damaged M.A.X. suit, which Chin confirmed is stored there, while the others bypass the alarm. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6

March 1987
"Grim Tidings"
Script: Gerry Conway
At a rural farm outside Boston, the terrorist Arun Bahkti — code name Steel Hawk — tests his recovered leg by running a brutal obstacle course. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #7

April 1987
"Deadly Resolutions!"
Script: Cary Bates
January 14, 1987. In a dense forest in southern New Hampshire, Steel Hawk (Arun Bahkti) stalks his prey. Armed with a rifle, he kicks open the door of a rural cabin and interrogates a frightened vagrant who confirms that four students and a woman had recently been hiding there. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #8

May 1987
"Down and Dirty"
Script: Cary Bates
Andrew Meadows is dead on arrival at a Boston hospital. Eduardo Giotti and Terry Roberts bring the news to Eric Chin and a desperate Tim Ferris, who had been trying to reach them all day. Tim explains that he was crossing the campus field that morning — on his way to drop off his M.A.X. [...]

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #9

June 1987
"Strung-Out to the M.A.X."
Script: Cary Bates
Two weeks have passed since the Troubleshooters' confrontation with Steel Hawk. Eduardo Giotti confesses to Terry Roberts that when he found Bahkti at the health spa he lost control, nearly beating him to death with the Strong-Arms — and had to self-destruct the unit to stop himself. [...]

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