Atari Force Mini Comic (1982) comic books 1982

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Promotional comic originally given away in connection with promotion of the Atari 2600. "Berserk"/"Unmasked"/"Spoils of War", script by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, art by Ross Andru, Dick Giordano, and Mike DeCarlo; Champion, Orion, Perez, and Mohandas Singh meet with the director of ATARI while the intruder eavesdrops; ATARI security finally discovers the intruder, issuing an "intruder alert" for a "berzerk situation"; The flashing lights and sirens send Singh into a remembrance of his former life as a street urchin in New Delhi with his friend Raja; A tourist accidentally accuses them of picking his pocket and Raja dies when he slips and hits his head on a river bank; To try to make up for what he's done, Prof. Stanley Miles (the tourist) sends Singh to some of the finest schools on three continents to train his very intelligent mind; Meanwhile, the intruder slips into the _Scanner One_ hangar as the meeting participants give chase; After a fight between the intruder and Champion (which he loses), the intruder is revealed to be Li-San O'Rourke, the executive director of ATARI security doing a field test which the security teams have failed miserably; She apologizes for disrupting the meeting, the but the director reveals she is to be the fifth member of the Atari Force; As they enter the craft, O'Rourke recounts her mission during the Five Day War to win back an enemy-occupied oil field. 5-in. x 7-in. mini comic book. 52 pgs., full color.