Night Force

Night Force
Group publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	New Teen Titans #21 (July 1982)
Created by	Marv Wolfman Gene Colan
In-story information
Type of organisation	Team
Agent(s)	Baron Winters Vanessa Van Helsing Jack Gold Donovan Caine Zadok Grimm
Night Force
Series publication information
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	(vol. 1) August 1982 – September 1983 (vol. 2) December 1996 – November 1997
Number of issues	vol. 1 14 vol. 2 12
Creative team
Writer(s)	Marv Wolfman
Penciller(s)	vol. 1 Gene Colan vol. 2 Brent Eric Anderson
Creator(s)	Marv Wolfman Gene Colan

Night Force is the name of two comic book series published by DC Comics. The first series, written by Marv Wolfman, and illustrated by Gene Colan debuted in a special insert in The New Teen Titans #21 (July 1982).^[1] The second series began in 1996 was one of four books that made up DC's Weirdoverse group of titles.

The main character of both series was Baron Winters, a sorcerer who would assemble a team of chosen individuals to fight supernatural threats. The Baron himself did not participate in the missions and would manipulate, sometimes unethically, others to do so for him. This was because, for reasons not revealed, he could not leave Wintersgate Manor, the labyrinthine mansion in Washington, D.C. where he lived. The mansion was located in a special juncture of time and space, allowing him to send his team to different places and times.

Characters

The team had a rotating membership, but notable members included:

• Vanessa Van Helsing - Granddaughter of Abraham Van Helsing and a powerful psychic.
• Jack Gold - Vanessa's husband, a reporter.
• Donovan Caine - A professor of parapsychology who lost an arm and a leg on one of the missions.
• Zadok Grimm - Apparently, an ancient warrior in the time of King David. He has an unexplained connection to Baron Winters.

Other versions

In issue three of the Tangent: Superman's Reign series, a version of Night Force is featured. This group is a mystically-powered branch of the Nightwing organisation, and its members are Hex, Black Orchid, and Wildcat.

Notes

1. ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1980s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 197. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. "[T]his issue...hid another dark secret: a sixteen-page preview comic featuring Marv Wolfman's newest team - Night Force. Chronicling the enterprise of the enigmatic Baron Winters and featuring the art of Gene Colan, Night Force spun out into an ongoing title of gothic mystery and horror the following month."" 

References

• Night Force at the Comic Book DB
• Night Force vol. 1 at the Grand Comics Database
• Night Force vol. 2 at the Grand Comics Database

External links

• Night Force at the DC Database Project