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Starship Troopers: The Official Movie Adaptation                                    Comics Lot
Featuring the Official Movie Adaptation based on the classic Robert A. Heinlein Novel.  Awesome!!
Writer: Bruce Jones
Artists: Arthur Adams & Mitch Byrd
Inker: Andrew Pepoy
Colorist: Jim. Brown
Letterer: Sean Konot
Editor: Dave Chipps
All Covers by: Den Beauvais

Starship Troopers is a 1997 American military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein. Originally based on a 1959 novel by Robert Heinlein, the ongoing saga of the Starship Troopers has been expanded on and adapted in several formats, including several movies, both live-action and animated TV shows, video games, and, of course, several comic books.

Johnny Rico joined the mobile infantry to see the galaxy and defeat the “bugs,” big, stupid insectoids from another planet. But it looks like the creatures are smarter than he expected, and it looks like the fight will take him straight back to Earth! Following a devastating loss when they invaded the bug homeworld of Klendathu, the Federation realizes that they underestimated the intelligence of the rampaging bugs. Is there a force strategizing for the bugs…?

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Starship Troopers 1997 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
In the 23rd century, while colonizing new planets, humans have encountered a hostile non-technological insectoid species known as Arachnids, but commonly referred to as “Bugs”. The Bugs appear to be little more than savage, unrelenting killing machines, though there are suggestions that they were provoked by the intrusion of humans into their habitats.

In the United Citizen Federation, citizenship is earned by performing activities such as military service, which grants individuals opportunities prohibited to basic civilians. After graduating from high school in Buenos Aires, John “Johnny” Rico, his girlfriend Carmen Ibáñez, and psychic best friend Carl Jenkins enlist in the Federal Service, despite Rico’s parents’ disapproval of military service. Carmen becomes a spaceship pilot, while Carl joins Military Intelligence. Rico enlists in the Mobile Infantry (the M.I.) and surprisingly finds that Isabelle “Dizzy” Flores, his former classmate who also has romantic feelings for him, has deliberately transferred to his squad.

In Mobile Infantry basic training, Career Sergeant Zim ruthlessly trains the recruits. Rico befriends fellow cadet Ace Levy and is later promoted to squad leader. He subsequently receives a Dear John letter from Carmen, as she desires a career with the fleet and now serves under Rico’s high-school sports rival, Zander Barcalow. Following a live-fire training incident that kills one of Rico’s squad members and causes another to quit out of guilt, Rico is demoted and flogged. He resigns and calls his parents to ask them if he can return home, but rescinds his resignation after an asteroid, reported to have been launched by the Arachnids, obliterates Buenos Aires, killing his parents and millions of others.

An invasion force is deployed to Klendathu, the Arachnids’ home planet, but the operation severely underestimates the Arachnids and is a total disaster. Rico is severely wounded and mistakenly reported killed in action. After recovering, he, Ace, and Dizzy are reassigned to the “Roughnecks”, an elite unit commanded by Lt. Jean Rasczak, Rico’s former high-school teacher. He quickly gains the respect of his peers and is promoted to the rank of Corporal after destroying a tanker Bug. His relationship with Dizzy continues to grow, and they have sex during their night on Tango Urilla.

The Roughnecks respond to a distress call from Planet “P”, where they reconnoiter an outpost that has been devastated by Bugs. They soon realize that the distress call was a trap, and the Arachnids swarm the outpost. Rico, now an acting sergeant, euthanizes a mortally wounded Rasczak after a buried tanker Bug bites off his legs. Dizzy is killed, but Carmen and Zander rescue the surviving Roughnecks. At Dizzy’s funeral, Rico and Carmen encounter Carl, now a high-ranking intelligence officer. Revealing that there is reason to believe an intelligent “Brain Bug” is directing the other Bugs and has been learning how to fight humans, Carl field-promotes Rico to lieutenant and gives him command of the Roughnecks, ordering the Mobile Infantry units under his control to return to “P” in an attempt to capture the Brain Bug.

The fleet encounters unexpected heavy fire from the Bugs and Carmen’s ship is destroyed. Carmen and Zander’s escape pod crashes into a Bug tunnel system near Rico. They are surrounded by Bugs, and a Brain Bug uses its proboscis to pierce Zander’s skull and eat his brain. As it is about to do the same to Carmen, she cuts off its proboscis with a knife. Rico, Watkins and Ace arrive and threaten the Bugs with a small nuclear bomb, which the Brain Bug recognizes. They flee while the Brain Bug escapes. Arachnids pursue them and Watkins, mortally wounded, sacrifices himself by detonating the bomb to enable the others to escape.

After returning to the surface, they find that former Sergeant Zim, who had requested a demotion to private so that he could serve at the front, has captured the Brain Bug. Carl tells Rico and Carmen that the humans will soon be victorious now that Military Intelligence can study the Brain Bug. Carl mentally scans the Bug and reveals that it is afraid, and the troops rejoice. A propaganda clip shows Carmen, Ace, and Rico as model servicemen, encouraging viewers to enlist in the armed forces.

Comics lot contains: Starship Troopers: The Official Movie adaptation (1997) Issues #1-2.  Dark Horse Comics

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: 1997
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.5″
UPC: 070989325050

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1 & 2 are in Very Good condition.  Nice Reading Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Starship Troopers and/or Robert A. Heinlein collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended! 

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