Description

Team 7: Dead Reckoning                                     Comics Lot
Image Comics presents how the members of the special forces team, Team 7, became the “Super-Heroes”; Grifter, Backlash, and Deathblow!  Awesome!!
Writer: Charles Dixon
Artist: Jason Johnson
Inkers: Tom McWeeney, John Tighe, Mark Irwin & Lucian Rizzo
Colorists: Byron George Talman, Nathan Lumm, Claudia La Rue, Kell-O-Graphics, Tony Kelly & Tsunami FX
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Editors: Tom Harrington, Amy Zimand & Mike Heisler
All Covers by: Michael Golden

The series begins with a fateful last mission for the Team 7 strike force. They had infiltrated into Leningrad and were charged with recovering a scientist working on experimental genetic weapons. As always, they managed to complete their seemingly impossible mission, but in doing so an encounter with a genetically altered being cost team leader John “Topkick” Lynch his right eye. A week later, the team was back in the U.S. where they discovered who it was that had ordered the mission – their old enemy and now new boss Miles Craven. Several of the team immediately rebelled, preferring to dissolve rather than serve under Craven. Team 7 was no more – but Craven’s machinations were just beginning…

Stories/Spoilers
In issue #1, “Don’t Look Back”, In the 1980’s during the Cold War, Team 7 is still doing missions for I.O.. They break into a Leningrad facility and kidnap one of Russia’s top researchers on psychic powers. During this mission, Lynch kills their most powerful test subject and loses his eye in the fight. When they return to McLean, Cole Cash is outraged to learn they are working for Miles Craven again. Cash, Callahan, Chang, and Fairchild leave the team and return to civilian life. Cash realizes he is starting to lose his powers, and fashions a shoddy red mask for himself. Gabriel Newman has the comatose Dane locked up with their other failed genetic experiments in Level Nine. Callahan announces that his wife Becky Rainmaker is now pregnant.

Features a Pin-Up by Jason Johnson & John Tighe.

Next issue #2, “Accidentally Like a Martyr”, Cash goes back into intelligence, and is captured by the Russians. They interrogate him, and plan to execute him when they realize his powers are gone. Lynch tracks his location through telepathy, and they rescue him while destroying the enemy base. Callahan is told his wife and child died in labor, but they are actually taken for government experiments. Becky knocks a doctor out and escapes with her daughter. Lynch becomes suicidal, which ruins his marriage at home. Craven makes Deathblow loyal by helping him assassinate his father’s murderer. The Level Nine inmates manipulate Dane’s power so they can escape.

Next issue #3, “The Deadly Breed”, Craven makes Slayton a StormWatch commander after he stops a plane hijacking. Becky appeals to Cray and Lynch for her daughter Sarah’s protection. The group’s powers begin fluctuating, and they worry about the rest of their children. When Level Nine finally breaks out, Team 7 is the only group that can stop them. They are unable to withstand Dane’s increased powers, and he nearly kills them. Cray shows up with X’ing X’iang and she easily defeats Level Nine. X’iang uses telepathy to learn that Craven is trying to steal their children.

Finally issue #4, “The Fifth Corner of the World”, They are now surrounded by Craven’s forces, but X’iang throws up a smokescreen and they escape. Cray stays behind as X’iang is his only family, and he chokes out Craven until Slayton stops him. The rest of Team 7 rush to protect their children. Callahan murders a SWAT team who take his family hostage. Cash uploads a virus created by Cyberjack to erase them from the government data banks. Slayton tries to bring in Cash, but Newman knocks out Slayton so Cash can escape. In the aftermath, Slayton infiltrates Craven’s estate as Backlash and threatens him. Craven swears he will get his hands on the children of Team 7. It is also shown that Newman and X’iang are kept imprisoned until Craven has a use for them.

Comics lot contains: Team 7: Dead Reckoning (1996) Issues 1-4.  Image 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: Image Comics
Publication Date: 1996
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4 are in Fine to Very Fine condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Team 7, Grifter, Backlash and/or Deathblow enthusiast collector / collector.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

Please read return policy.