Super Soldiers

Infobox comic book title
title = Super Soldiers


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schedule = Monthly
ongoing = Y
publisher = Marvel UK
date= April - November 1993
issues = 8
main_char_team = Alec Dalton
Dragonfly
Gog
The Guvnor
Joseph Hauer
Sarah Wilde
Xantia
writers = Michael W. Bennent
Lee Stevens
artists =
pencillers = Andrew Currie
inkers = Rodney Ramos
colorists = Steve Whitaker
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subcat=Marvel UK
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"Super Soldiers" was a comic book published by the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics in 1993. Part of the shared Marvel Universe setting, it centered around a team of superhuman British soldiers, with some plot aspects drawing on the background of Marvel's successful Captain America character.

Publication history

The series was canceled after eight issues, after the first part of a new storyline, when Marvel UK abruptly ceased publishing new material.

Fictional team history

The Super Soldiers consisted mostly of individuals modified using biotechnology based on the American supersoldier codenamed Nuke. These characters were part of a British supersoldier program, which had been officially disbanded due to a mission gone wrong, and years later reformed along with other characters such as the rowdy mutant Guvnor, [ [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/guvnorss.htm Guvnor] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] the Savage Land warrior woman Xantia, [ [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/xantiass.htm Xantia] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] and the revived (after hibernating since the 1970s) martial artist Dragonfly, [ [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/dgnflyss.htm Dragonfly] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] to work alongside S.H.I.E.L.D. and the USAgent. In the eighth (and, as it would turn out, final) issue of the series, the unit found themselves privatized and their contracts sold to the Mercy Corporation [ [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/mercycor.htm Mercy Corporation] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] as an "Autonomous superhero response unit".

The team, or at least Joseph Hauer, [ [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/joseph.htm Joseph Hauer] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe] are still in operation in the Marvel Universe as Hauer appeared during a briefing alongside Pete Wisdom, Captain Britain and Union Jack on the details of the British Superhuman Registration Act by Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine, Alistaire Stuart and Commander Lance Hunter as part of the superhuman Civil War.Comic book reference | Writer =Anthony Flamini & Ronald Byrd | Penciller = | Inker = | Story = | Title = Civil War Battle Damage Report | Issue = |date= March 2007 | Publisher = Marvel Comics]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/supersol.htm Super Soldiers ] at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
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* [http://www.comics-db.com/Marvel_Comics/S/Super_Soldiers/index.html Super Soldiers] at the Big Comic Book DataBase