S.C.Y.T.H.E.

Infobox comics organization


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publisher=DC Comics
debut=Wonder Woman #244 June (1978)
creators=Jack C. Harris (writer) Jose Delbo (artist)
type=Terrorist
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S.C.Y.T.H.E. was a fictional terrorist organization which appeared in DC Comics. Their first and only appearances were in "Wonder Woman" # 244-245. The group was created by Jack C. Harris and Jose Delbo.

History

S.C.Y.T.H.E. was an anti-government terrorist organization from a European country called Lugwainia. They abducted brilliant aeronautics engineer Robert Selkirk, who'd spent years as a political prisoner in a pseudo Soviet nation before gaining asylum in the U.S., and they demanded to exchange with their imprisoned leader, Alexander Sorkhan. A United Nations team consisting of Diana Prince and Steve Trevor were assigned to go with Selkirk to the exchange, but they were waylaid by the terrorists and betrayed by Selkirk himself who helped Sorkhan escape.

Within hours New York City was being menaced by catastrophic space based missile weapons. The devices had secretly been placed on an orbital platform disguised as a weather satellite three years previously.

Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor successfully disable the satellite but Selkirk received fatal burns while trying to keep Sorkhan from being recaptured. With his dying breaths, the doctor explained that S.C.Y.T.H.E. was holding his family prisoner in Lugwainia, and that their survival was dependent on his helping Sorkhan. [http://www.fanzing.com/mag/fanzing49/oracle.shtml]

ee also

*List of criminal organizations in comics
*List of Wonder Woman enemies

Resources

* [http://www.fanzing.com/mag/fanzing49/oracle.shtml Fanzing #49 Criminal Organizations of the DCU]