Force Works (1994) comic books

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"Day-Break" Part 1 of 3. Double-size issue. Guest-starring the Vision and Black Widow. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tom Tenney. Inks by Rey Garcia. Foldout popup wraparound cover by Tom Tenney and Rey Garcia. It's the debut of a new superhero team in the Marvel Universe! Force Works! And this new group sure looks a lot like Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but with a twist! Following the breakup of the West Coast Avengers, Tony Stark decides to form his own team in Southern California and recruits his former teammates to fill the ranks! However one infamous Avengers' legacy will haunt Force Works from the very beginning! As rogue Kree agents still seek vengeance on Wonder Man and the Vision (as a result of Operation Galactic Storm)! When the Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man bump into the Vision and Black Widow at their former west coast compound, the Kree terrorists attack en masse! And suddenly Force Works has its first action! The U.S. Agent and Shell-head lead the charge at Palos Verdes, while Wonder Man soars into the stratosphere to knock out the Kree's ion cannon! But something goes horribly wrong in outer space, and the new team cannot celebrate their victory in California. And even less so when the Scatter appear! Who are these bizarre aliens? Apparent death of Wonder Man. First appearance of Century. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman (aka Julia Carpenter), Wonder Man, and the U.S. Agent. (Notes: The Force Works series is essentially a continuation of the Avengers West Coast series that ended with issue 102. This issue was published the same month as Avengers 376. Six months earlier the Force Works Ashcan Edition (1994) was published which previewed the battle vs. the Kree in Force Works 1. Carefully open the foldout cover to avoid damaging the front cover.) 48 pages. Cover price $3.95.

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"Aftermath" Part 2 of 3. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tom Tenney. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Tom Tenney and Rey Garcia. After their very first battle, Force Works is on the verge of collapse! At the end of last issue, the alien Scatter abducted the Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the agent! And now Iron Man's only clue to their whereabouts is Century…another alien that appeared out of nowhere! With no other options available, Shell-head joins Century for a trans-dimensional teleport! On a ghastly world conquered by the ghoulish Scatter, the golden avenger finds his teammates under severe distress! The Scatter are ready to feed, but Force Works is ready to fight! FW will run the gauntlet to escape from Scatter world! Cameo appearances by the Black Widow, Captain America, Nick Fury, and the Vision. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent. 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Ignition" Part 1 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tom Tenney. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Tom Tenney and Rey Garcia. Another global crisis pops up for Force Works! And this time the location is the Baltic nation of Slorenia! A bloody civil war is raging and FW is about to intervene! Does anyone on the team have experience with international diplomacy? Forget that! This is going to be gun-barrel diplomacy! However, Ember, the first super-powered Slorenian the team meets, knocks out FW in short order! And when the heroes wake up, it's time to fight the next super Slorenian…Black Brigade! Force Works' Baltic adventure is becoming a Baltic nightmare! First appearances of Ember and Black Brigade. Second story: "Familiarization" Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tod Smith. Inks by Kevin Yates. Plato and the Force Works support staff review the history of each team member. Flashback cameos by Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and Wonder Man. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, Century, and the U.S. Agent. 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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$2.95 cover price. Polybagged with Marvel Action Hour Preview and acetate print. "Conflagration" Part 2 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Paul Ryan. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Tom Tenney and Rey Garcia. Thanks to artful negotiating by the Scarlet Witch, Force Works avoids a confrontation with Black Brigade and instead receives an audience with the ruling council of Slorenia! The governing body wants FW to capture Ember, the rebels' most powerful freedom fighter! Wanda concurs with that plan, but remains suspicious about the motives of the Slorenian leaders. A few hours later, Force Works tracks Ember to an abandoned palace outside the capital city and invites Black Brigade to help them! However, this is where the new team gets a lesson in meddling in the affairs of foreign countries! What should just be one battle turns into a double donnybrook! Shell-head, Century, and Spider-Woman vs. Black Brigade; and the Scarlet Witch and U.S. Agent vs. Ember! Will Force Works be able to extricate themselves from the Slorenian crisis? Or will they just sink further into the Baltic quagmire? Cameo appearances by Captain America and the Recorder. Second story: "Breakdown" Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tod Smith. Inks by Kevin Yates. A tour of the virtual training room almost turns deadly for Spider-Woman's daughter. (Notes: Ember and Black Brigade return in Force Works 11. The version of issue 5 with the $2.95 cover price has a pink FW logo. The version with the $1.50 cover price has a blue FW logo. This comic book is polybagged with the 16-page Action Hour preview or acetate print.) 32 pages. Cover price $2.95.

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$2.95 cover price. Copy is not polybagged. Comic only with no Action Hour preview. "Conflagration" Part 2 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Paul Ryan. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Tom Tenney and Rey Garcia. Thanks to artful negotiating by the Scarlet Witch, Force Works avoids a confrontation with Black Brigade and instead receives an audience with the ruling council of Slorenia! The governing body wants FW to capture Ember, the rebels' most powerful freedom fighter! Wanda concurs with that plan, but remains suspicious about the motives of the Slorenian leaders. A few hours later, Force Works tracks Ember to an abandoned palace outside the capital city and invites Black Brigade to help them! However, this is where the new team gets a lesson in meddling in the affairs of foreign countries! What should just be one battle turns into a double donnybrook! Shell-head, Century, and Spider-Woman vs. Black Brigade; and the Scarlet Witch and U.S. Agent vs. Ember! Will Force Works be able to extricate themselves from the Slorenian crisis? Or will they just sink further into the Baltic quagmire? Cameo appearances by Captain America and the Recorder. Second story: "Breakdown" Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Tod Smith. Inks by Kevin Yates. A tour of the virtual training room almost turns deadly for Spider-Woman's daughter. (Notes: Ember and Black Brigade return in Force Works 11. The version of issue 5 with the $2.95 cover price has a pink FW logo. The version with the $1.50 cover price has a blue FW logo. This comic book is not polybagged and does not contain the 16-page Action Hour preview or acetate print.) 32 pages. Cover price $2.95.

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Hands of the Mandarin Part 1 of 6. "Goodbye Hong Kong" Guest-starring War Machine. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Dave Taylor. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Dave Ross and Rey Garcia. A quiet morning in Hong Kong is violently interrupted by an attack from the Mandarin's malevolent minions! The Avatars, five bizarre creatures with supernatural powers, begin ripping up the city and moving towards the headquarters of Stark Industries' Far East Division! The slaughter of the innocent civilians will continue unchecked... unless Force Works intervenes! So in dramatic fashion the Scarlet Witch, Century, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent airdrop into the island city and counterattack against Lich, Foundry, Deluge, Q'wake, and Butterfly! Meanwhile at the conclusion to Iron Man 310, the Mandarin captured Iron Man and War Machine! And now the two armored avengers stand immobilized before the Chinese super-villain! Shell-Head and Rhodey are at the mercy of the Mandarin! And unfortunately he has no mercy! Story continues in War Machine (1994-1996 1st series) #9. First appearance of Suzi Endo. Cameo appearances by Bethany Cabe and the Recorder. (Notes: This six-part story is previewed in detail in the Iron Man & Force Works collectors' preview issue (published in November 1994). This issue was reprinted in 2013 in the trade paperback: Iron Man/War Machine Hands of the Mandarin.) 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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Hands of the Mandarin Part 4 of 6. "Heart of Darkness" Guest-starring War Machine. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Dave Taylor. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Dave Taylor and Rey Garcia. Story continues from Iron Man 311. With an urgent fury, Force Works attacks the Mandarin's fortress in the middle of nowhere China! The fighting mad U.S. Agent, Scarlet Witch, and Spider-Woman rip into the Avatars during their search for Tony Stark! However they may be too late as the Mandarin is poised to deliver the coup de grâce to his hated foe! But in the nick of time, the Scarlet Witch crashes into the Asian mastermind's chamber room and staggers the super-villain with the ten rings! Setting the stage for the spectacular showdown.. .Iron Man versus the, wait, hold on, it's not the golden avenger, it's the Scarlet Witch vs. the Mandarin! Wow, is Wanda ready to throw down with the mighty Mandarin? An excellent issue! Story continues in War Machine #10. Appearances by Century and War Machine. (Notes: Force Works appears in various stories in Marvel Comics Presents 169 thru 172 as part of the Hands of the Mandarin saga. This issue was reprinted in 2013 in the trade paperback: Iron Man/War Machine Hands of the Mandarin.) 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Tidings of Comfort and Joy" Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Stu Johnson. Inks by Don Hudson. Cover by Dave Taylor and Rey Garcia. The ordeal with the Mandarin is over. And now it's time to celebrate Force Works-style! Tony Stark throws a party at the team's Ventura headquarters and invites many former friends and colleagues to attend! The purpose of the party is two-fold. First, to recognize Force Works' recent accomplishments; and second, to give Tony a chance to apologize to his friends for his deceptive behavior in the past several months. But one of the guests is not receptive to Iron Man's apology! The Avengers' former ace archer…Hawkeye! Clint is still bitter over the break-up of the west coast team; and some wounds take a long time to heal. Someday reconciliation may be possible, but not today! Appearances by Captain America, Hank Pym, Living Lightning, Agatha Harkness, Happy Hogan, Pepper Hogan, Bethany Cabe, and the Recorder. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Century, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent. 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Dreamtime" Part 1 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Jim Calafiore and Rey Garcia. Force Works is on the move to the land down under! The chaos computer reports a problem developing in Queensland, Australia! And sure enough strange and grotesque creatures are rampaging through a local town! When FW descends into the city, they discover that the monsters are actually psychic manifestations…from somebody's dream! Truly bizarre! However, a new Aussie superhero called Dreamguard says the answer to the dream-driven mystery lies in the outback! And that's where Shell-head, Spider-Woman, Century, Wanda, and the agent are going next! First appearance of Dreamguard. Cameo appearance by Orphan. Second story: "Memorial" Part 1 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Spider-Woman and the Scarlet Witch prepare to attend the memorial service for Wonder Man (aka Simon Williams). 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Orphan" Part 2 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Jim Calafiore and Rey Garcia. Deep in the Australian Outback, Force Works chases a dream! But this dream is actually an alien nightmare (aka Orphan) that turns sweet dreams into scary realities! As Dreamguard leads FW closer to the alien, the heroes drift off into dreamland! Will Force Works wake up in time? Second story: "Sense of Loss" Part 2 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Force Works and Earth's Mightiest Heroes gather to commemorate the life and times of the man of wonder, Simon Williams. Cameo appearances by the Beast, Captain America, Nick Fury, Ben Grimm, Crystal, Quicksilver, Hercules, Thor, Thunderstrike, and the Vision. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Century, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent. 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Red Heat" Part 1 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Jim Calafiore. Force Works returns to the scene of the crime! The embattled nation of Slorenia in Eastern Europe! When FW previously visited (in issues 4 & 5), the team stormed into the country; but this time they're going in undercover! After receiving a tip from War Machine about the possibility of government-sanctioned genocide; Wanda and the agent hide out with the Dudak ethnic minority, while Tony and Julia infiltrate the Slorene parliament building. With Century and the Recorder circling high overhead in the hex-ship, FW seems to have all the bases covered! However after Spider-Woman makes a ghastly discovery in the catacombs of the government building, Force Works' covert plan blows up! And suddenly the heroes are under attack from all sides as Black Brigade, Volkhvy, and the Targoths move in for the kill! FW's mission of mercy is over; it's now a mission for survival! Cameo appearance by Ember. Flashback cameo by War Machine. Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Century, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent. (Note: Elements of the plot overlap with War Machine 14.) 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Green Fire!" Part 2 of 2. Flip Book. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Jim Calafiore. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Jim Calafiore and Rey Garcia. Slorenia is on the brink of anarchy! As Ember and Volkhvy engage in a savage slugfest to win the centuries-old war between the Slorenians and the Dudaks! Initially Force Works helps Ember, but Wanda and the agent soon realize that he's just as deadly as Volkhvy! While Iron Man is tangled up with Black Brigade, Century teleports into the middle of the fierce fight in the Slorene parliament building! And then and there FW lays it all on the line to save Slorenia and themselves! A frantic finish indeed! Force Works Lineup: Iron Man, Century, Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, and the U.S. Agent. Flip book second story: "Vicious Circle: Into the Shadows!" Part 1 of 3. Script by Dan Abnett. Pencils by Fred Haynes. Inks by Johnny Greene. Cover by Fred Haynes and Johnny Greene. War Machine invades a small country in Central America to stop a civil war! However when he encounters high tech weaponry on the battlefield, he fears more is going on than meets the eye! Cameo appearances by Hawkeye and the U.S. Agent. (Note: The Brothers in Arms storyline continues in War Machine 15 and concludes in Iron Man 317.) 48 pages. Cover price $2.50.

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"Afterimage" Part 1 of 2. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Yancey Labat and Andrew Wildman. Inks by Rey Garcia, Sandu Florea, and Sergio Cariello. Cover by Yancey Labat. The Crossing is over, but Force Works has suffered irreparable damage. The team's founder is dead and FW's headquarters lies in near ruins. Wanda, Julia, Century, and the agent try to pick up the pieces and move forward. And the first order of business is figuring out what to do with Cybermancer! She's actually Suzy Endo from 15 years in the future! And the second item on the agenda is deactivating Kang's leftover time-gate! But what if a couple of Cybermancer's colleagues (from the future) attempted to rescue her through the time-gate? And what if they looked a lot like Ultron and Wonder Man? Uh-oh! In the blink of an eye, the adamantium robot and Simon Williams appear from the future and attack! Will Force Works end up in ruins...just like their building? Force Works Lineup: Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, Century, and the U.S. Agent. 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.

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"Pain Threshold" Part 2 of 2. Final issue of the series. Script by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. Pencils by Andrew Wildman. Inks by Rey Garcia. Cover by Andrew Wildman and Rey Garcia. The sun is setting on Force Works, but not before one final donnybrook to save the world! Kang's time-gate is running amok and threatening to devour all reality! Wanda tries to enlist the aid of the future versions of Cybermancer, Ultron, and Wonder Man; however the trio disintegrates when their future timeline implodes! So it's last call for Force Works! Close the gate and go out a winner...or leave it open and lose everything! Force Works Lineup: Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, Century, and the U.S. Agent. (Notes: Following the disbanding of Force Works, the Scarlet Witch returns to the Avengers. Spider-Woman appears next (in the backup story) of the Sensational Spider-Man Annual 1996. The U.S. Agent returns in the first issue of the third Avengers series (1997). Century's whereabouts remain unknown.) 32 pages. Cover price $1.50.