Spitfire (New Universe)

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters
Issue #1 cover
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	October 1986 - October 1987
Number of issues	13
Main character(s)	Professor Jenny Swensen
Creative team
Creator(s)	Eliot R. Brown Herb Trimpe

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (renamed to Codename: Spitfire with issue #10) was a short-lived comic book series from Marvel Comics' New Universe line. It followed "Spitfire" (Professor Jenny Swensen) and a group of brilliant but eccentric college students as they used various high-tech exoskeletons to combat crime (the M.A.X. Armor, standing for Man-Assisted eXperimental).

However, Swensen proved to be a popular character and was later included in the Pitt one-shot. Swensen was exposed to the Pitt itself, which was created by the Black Event, and was transformed into an armor-skinned Paranormal, later becoming a semi-regular character in the longer running DP7 comic and adopting the codename Chrome.

A different version of the character - Dr Jennifer Swann - was introduced in 2007, as part of Warren Ellis' newuniversal. a single-title reworking of the New Universe concepts.

Creators

Writers

• Eliot R. Brown - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
• Gerry Conway - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-6 (October 1986-March 1987)
• Jack Morelli - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
• Roy Thomas - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5 (February 1987)
• Cary Bates - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6-9 (March 1987-June 1987)
• Cary Bates - Codename: Spitfire #10 (July 1987)
• Fabian Nicieza - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987); ; "The Sublet" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]; "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]
• Len Kaminski - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
• Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)

Art

• Herb Trimpe - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-2, 5 (October 1986-November 1986, February 1987)
• Ron Wagner - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #3 (December 1986)
• Todd McFarlane - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #4 (January 1987)
• Vincent Giarrano - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6 (March 1987)
• Alan Kupperberg - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #7-9 (April 1987-June 1987)
• Marshall Rogers - Codename: Spitfire #10 (July 1987)
• Grant Miehm - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987)
• Javier Saltares - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
• Dave Hoover - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
• Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
• Mark Bagley - "Healing Time" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]
• Donald C. Hudson - "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]

Other versions

newuniversal - Dr. Jennifer Swan

Main article: Cipher (newuniversal)

An alternate version of Jenny Swensen is introduced as Dr. Jennifer Swan in Warren Ellis's re-imagining of New Universe called newuniversal. Dr. Jennifer Swann works for Project Spitfire, continuing her father's work on the H.E.X. (Human Enhancement eXperimental) Initiative, working to create a robotic battle suit. In the wake of the White Event and police reports regarding Kenneth Connell, Jennifer's supervisor Philip L. Voight informs her that H.E.X funding has been increased by a factor of twenty and that the true mandate of Project Spitfire is to monitor and/or kill all superhumans. It is revealed in newuniversal #3 that she was granted the Cipher glyph, becoming the very thing she was tasked to hunt down and kill.

Exiles

An alternate version of Spitfire was rescued (and later recruited) by Quentin Quire; as part of Quire's version of the Exiles, in which the team helped the surviving heroes battled the Annihilation Wave that was led by a banished Hulk.