Spitfire (New Universe)

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caption = Issue #1 cover
schedule = Monthly
format = Ongoing series
publisher = Marvel Comics
date = October 1986 - October 1987
issues = 13
main_char_team = Professor Jenny Swensen
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creators = Eliot R. Brown
Herb Trimpe

"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).

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.

Exiles

An alternate version of Spitfire was rescued (and later recruited) by Quentin Quire; as part of Quire's version of the Exiles, in which the team helped the surviving heroes battled the Annihilation Wave that was led by a banished Hulk. ["Exiles:Days of Then and Now" #1]

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