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Power Comics #190 gs

heroes: Seker, Shu, Horus

opponents: Sorcerer, Wraith, Gothor

Action: Egyptians defeat ...

Champion Features #140 jp

title: Evil Distilled

heroes: Falstaff, Speedster, Marvel, Cardshark, Gremlin

opponents: Four Essences of Evil

Action: The essences of evil are accidentally released in a laboratory and a general call goes out for help. The heroes arrive to find four super beings claiming they are the four essences of evil. The heroes subdue them, exorcising the host bodies from possession.

Earthguard: Darkwar, Marvel

heroes: Blok, Jack Blackmoor, Sumo

opponents: Phosphorus, Black Samson, Stalker

title: Found Treasure

Earthguard: Darkwar, Marvel (disguised as Javelin), Star-Scanner

heroes: Cheops, Blok, Jack Blackmoor, Sumo

opponents: Crimson Dynamo, Vanguard, Darkstar, Blister, Riptide

Action: Earthguard(r) discovers the location of Magneto's spaceship lost at sea (see issue ). The only problem is several villains have already claimed the spaceship and have pulled it from the ocean floor. With Cyclotron unavailable and Phase still insane after his fight with the Terror, Marvel takes the Javelin costume to add some ranged power to the Earthguard attack. The villains put up a good fight but are outnumbered in the end and are defeated.

title: All Things Come to Those Who Wait

Earthguard: Captain Marvel Junior, Corona, Cyclotron, Darkwar, Marvel, Star-Scanner

opponents: Mandarin, Sentinel Robots

Action: The Mandarin cross circuits two Sentinel robots to help him against Earthguard(r). While the heroes battle outside, he enters Earthguard(r) headquarters and finds Marvel the only one in his path. He gives her two choices and when she doesn't answer he blasts her into near death.

title: Practice Makes Perfect

Earthguard: Captain Marvel Junior, Corona, Cyclotron, Darkwar, Marvel, Star-Scanner

Action: Earthguard(r) realizes they are not working as a team. A danger room combat is organized and run until the heroes get it right.

Comics Action Premiere #130 dj

title: Juggernaut on the Run

heroes: Shu, Matrix, Vertigo, Blok, Speedster

opponents: Juggernaut, Madame Viper

Action: Madame Viper convinces Juggernaut to allow her to insert the Speedster implant into his head. Juggernaut agrees and tests his new quickness. The heroes are unable to defeat him but the implant conflicts with his natural strength and eventually burns out rendering Juggernaut unconscious. When he comes to he tells what he knows about Madame Viper in exchange for his release and a promise to "behave".

title: Dancing in the Dark

heroes: Speedster, Le Blanc, Cardshark

opponents: Hellrover, vampires

Action: Hellrover somehow makes a pact with several vampires who follow Marvel and Le Blanc. Trapping the pair in an alley they attack but, as luck will have it, Cardshark and Speedster happen by to turn the odds back in the heroes favor.

ISSUE Marvel Mini-Series 1 ja

title: In the beginning there was Jaguar

others: reporters for People Magazine

Action: "Obviously I can't tell you everything. I mean a girl has to have some secrets lets be serious. I guess this whole thing started with a photographic job I was asked to do. At the time, I didn't know what it would lead to, but a girl has to look respectable even if she does live in New York City. Even before that, I guess it started when I was asked by People magazine for an interview as part of their 'Famous Superheroes on the New York Scene'. You remember that issue, we used to call it the "People" swimsuit issue because they did not interview any guys. No one else in Earthguard was around except for me so I agreed to help them out. While doing the interview, this guy (Panther, Puma..?) attacked me. I guess he had something to prove after Black Panther and I pushed his nose in a few months back (see Two-In-One Adventure Comics #78) but all he proved was that he couldn't take a punch. Confinement didn't suit him well. I talked with him for a long time after the fight and he told me he was still mad at the Russians for leaving him in the jungles after his defeat. That evening, with no small measure of help from myself, he escaped. Despite what some say, I did not just let him go. He hit me over the head real hard. See."

ISSUE Marvel Mini-Series 2 ja

Title: "Who is this guy anyway?"

opponents: Russian super types __________________

others: Hotel Security Guard

action: "A week later I came home from work, my real job, not Earthguard(r), and found a man in my room. It's not like I'm a prude or anything but when he claimed to know me as Marvel. I was amazed, really. I had been so careful not to let the secret out but there was this joker sitting in one of my chairs. It was like finding your brother poking in your underwear drawer. Well naturally I fended surprise and played dumb. I screamed and ran and got the night guard. I felt really bad about him being shot and killed but I couldn't change fast enough to save him. I climbed to the top of the building and found two more commie dogs there. I evened the odds by accidentally knocking one over the edge of the building, it was only a six story fall, and went about teaching the second a lesson he would not soon forget. Imagine hitting me with a throwing dagger. I made a hasty retreat when more Russians arrived with automatic weapons.

ISSUE Marvel Mini-Series 3 ja

title: The Florida Shoot

opponents: Russian Agents, Imperial Defender

Others: Ray Morrison (shoot director), Alex (Marvel's secret ID agent)

Action: "Now, the story really becomes bizarre and confusing. I finally get the job in Florida for Cosmopolitan's casual wear feature only to find it was fronted by the KGB to isolate me from Earthguard(r). It's like they weren't interested in taking pictures at all. The Russians were really mad and I realized it was a trap when they guys started shooting at me, not with the cameras, but with guns. And then this crazed madman named Imperial Defender, with a curved back scratcher in one hand and cheap metal hammer in the other, runs up and says he is going to kill me. It will be a real long day in you-know-where before some commie freak can beat me. That is in a fair fight because one of those slimy guys clobbered me from behind.

ISSUE Marvel Mini-Series 4 ja

Title: "And I thought he was a friend"

opponents: Russian infantry, African tribesmen, Jaguar, ________________

Action: "I woke up several days later in, I found out later, the jungles or mountains of Venezuela. Loudspeakers informed me I had been transported to the home of Jaguar and the emissaries of the KGB were waiting to be entertained by my inevitable death. I tried to talk with Jaguar, thinking he was in trouble with the Russians the same as me. I couldn't believe how rude he was. All he could talk about was "getting even". Like a guy that low on oil even has a chance. I was real sorry to disappoint KGB dignitaries for the African tribesmen did not succeed, neither did the squad of Russian infantry and even Jaguar failed. I understand the Russian Colonel who hoped to use my murder to avenge the 'accidental' death of his brother was shot by his own troops in their anxiety to kill me.

"And that is how I spent my vacation. I hope you boys had more fun than me."

Champion Features #146 jp

title: Marvel Goes Berserk

heroes: Marvel, Falstaff, Sumo, Dragonflame

Action: Visegrip of the Master Felons, tries a free-lance job on his own. He has very little success against the four heroes and is quickly defeated. After fight, Marvel and Falstaff talk about why MI-6 is after him. She mistakenly understands him to say he works for the Russians and beats him unconscious before anyone can intervene.

Champion Features #147 jp

title: The Many Tentacles of HYDRA

heroes: Falstaff, Kyoto, Giant Robot, Torrent, Light-wave, Palomar, Multiple Man, Dragonflame

Action: Falstaff, Multiple Man and Dragonflame stumble upon a plot by HYDRA to cause devastating earthquakes on the west coast. They contact HYDRA's main foes, A-Team who comes out to help foil the villian's plot.

Power Comics #196 gs

title: A Frozen Time-Capsule

heroes: Liberator, Fang, Torrent

Action: The heroes investigating an ancient North Pole army base find a frozen Allied Force, a dead Arsenal and a hole that once contained Ubermensch. Allied Force is revived.

title: Captive Audience and Knights in Armor

Earthguard: Star-Scanner, Corona, Captain Marvel Junior, Marvel, Cyclotron

opponents: Kree scout ship and crew, three Nazgul

Action: While flying back from Visar, Star-Scanner is attacked by a Kree scout ship in orbit around the earth. As Visar and the Kree are at war, Star-Scanner blasts the ship killing all the crew except for the captain who Star-Scanner captures and brings down to Earthguard(r) for interrogation.

Meanwhile, Corona, Captain Marvel Junior and Marvel see Cyclotron involved in a street fight. Normally, Cyclotron would be more than adequately prepared to disable a group of ordinary thugs. But this assailant has a sword and is about to kill Cyclotron before the three heroes come to the rescue. With the help of all three, the man in black armor is quickly dispatched. The armor is opened and no one is inside. Corona gives Marvel the sword for "safe keeping".

The armor was trying to rob a jewelry store. Cyclotron and Marvel look about the Jewelry store but find nothing unusual. They make a mental note concerning the shop as it has a large collection of occult jewelry. Captain Marvel Junior and Corona fly back to Earthguard(r). At Earthguard(r) the two heroes are ambushed by two other Nazgul who mumble something about a jewel. With the help of Star-Scanner, Cyclotron, and Marvel, the Nazgul are banished from this plane.

During the fight the Kree somehow manages to escape off the roof.

title: Styx and Stones

Earthguard: Cyclotron, Star-Scanner, Corona, Marvel

Heroes: OMAC, Blackmoor

opponents: Styx agents, Den-Rann

Action: Within an hour, DAD locates the Kree captain (see last issue) and DAD attempts to capture him in detention cables. Star-Scanner leaves to "take care of the matter personally" as the Kree blasts and destroys the cables with an energy bolt. Although the Kree, now known as Den-Rann, is gravely injured, he is still able to defeat Star-Scanner and later Marvel when they attempt to detain him as his fighting style is more conducive to the hallways and rooms of Earthguard(r) headquarters. Den-Rann makes his escape out of the headquarters.

Unable to contact any Earthguard(r) members, DAD, the Earthguard(r) computer, calls Siren and request help for the heroes who were injured. OMAC, One Man Army Corps, arrives and places both heroes into the Medivac Recovery Units.

Corona and Cyclotron arrive, and after Star-Scanner and Marvel regain consciousness, OMAC says he received a call about some trouble outside Cairo. In Egypt, Earthguard(r) finds about 6,000 people in the desert. They say that they are waiting for the gods to appear. Before Earthguard(r) packs and leaves, a gigantic alien space craft lands at the edge of the crowd. The ship looks like the Sphinx of the desert. Styx agents interpose themselves between the surging crown and the craft. That night, as Earthguard(r) is attempting to enter the craft, the front hatchway opens and lasers kill the Styx agents who had set themselves around the craft. Earthguard(r) rushes inside where they are confronted by the Sphinx.

title: Which Sphinx is which

Earthguard: Cyclotron, Star-Scanner, Corona, Marvel

Heroes: OMAC, Blackmoor

opponents: Dark Sphinx, Horus, Seeker, Shu

Action: Once inside, the Sphinx tells Earthguard(r) he needs the Egyptian Book of the Dead to end his immortality. He cannot get the book because he has so busy stopping his evil counter-part. Earthguard(r) agrees to help, but only if he promises to bring back the Styx agents he killed. Sphinx agrees and transports everyone back to when the pyramids were new.

Avoiding the traps inside the Pyramid, Earthguard(r) makes its way to the chamber room where they discover the Egyptian Gods Horus, Seeker and Shu protecting this crypt.

The battle is taken outside. It reigns furious but in the end Earthguard(r) triumphs. They pick up the book and give it to the Sphinx to find this is the evil Sphinx. Now with the power of the Book of the Dead, he easily defeats Earthguard(r). As a cruel joke he transports Earthguard(r) back to its own time. "You must wait your turn at death."

Heroes of Siren #17 gs

title: A Good Day to Sleep Late

heroes: Palomar, Solstice, White Fire, OMAC

opponents: Ubermensch, Den-Ran, Professor Meticago, Avar-7, Battle Squad: Storm Trooper, Apocalypse, Tank

Action: Siren gets a call from Earthguard(r) headquarters of a break-in. Since Earthguard(r) is out of the country, can Siren investigate? Siren arrives to find Prof. Meticago and Avar-7 are in the process of re-wiring the security systems and destroying repair equipment. They engage the battle only to find the rest of the villains in other parts of the headquarters. With no chance to win, the heroes are subdued in short order.

ISSUE 60 DOUBLE SIZED gs

title: Rescue Sirens at Earthguard

Earthguard: Atomic Knight, Marvel, Corona, Cyclotron, Star-Scanner, Darkwar

heroes: Allied Force, OMAC, Solstice, Ran-Darr

Opponents: Den-Rann, Avar-7, Ubermanche, Professor Meticago, Battle Squad: Storm Trooper, Apocalypse, Tank

Action: Earthguard(r) arrives back at their shuttle craft to find a priority one alert from DAD. Someone has broken into Earthguard(r). Siren was called to the scene, since Earthguard(r) was not available, and were quickly defeated (see Heroes of Siren issue #17). Atomic Knight, Ran-Darr and Darkwar arrive and quickly try to think of some way to break into the now hostile fortress. Darkwar teleports Ran-Darr into Earthguard(r)'s computer room to gain the new security codes that are needed to bypass the security system. While there, they encounter Den-Rann, who has joined the attackers and is guarding the computer room. Darkwar and Ran-Darr barely escape with their lives.

Before the codes can be put into use, the Battle Squad decided to make their move. They come out the front of the Wallace building and, with the help of Avar-7, attack Atomic Knight and Darkwar. Meanwhile, Ubermanche and Den-Rann attack the other Earthguard(r) members who are just now returning from Egypt.

The battle is close as Darkwar and Atomic Knight strain their resources before Corona, Solstice and OMAC can join them and defeat the Battle Squad. Ubermanche is about to kill Star-Scanner, Cyclotron and Phase when Allied Forces arrives. Their battle rages and eventually is lost over the horizon.

With Ubermanche gone, the Battle Squad defeated and Professor Meticago making his own escape, Den-Rann is forced to barter with the life of Star-Scanner to make his escape. In the end, it is agreed that Star-Scanner will face an inter-galactic court for his attack on Den-Rann's scout cruiser.

title: Gadget's Secret Life

heroes: Ran-Darr, Gadget

Action: Gadget is attacked by agents from SIREN. Gadget helped develop his suit as SIREN and then, learning how they intended to use his invention, stole it to prevent them from furthering their evil goals. Gadget is knocked unconscious but Ran-Darr defeats the agents before they can kidnap Gadget.

Comics Action Premiere #140 dj

title: Evil Summoned

heroes: Magus Rex, Python, Ran-Darr, Wartiger

opponents: Blackstone the Magnificent, Demon

Action: Magus Rex and Wartiger feel an impending disruption in the magics of earth. They go to Earthguard(r) to get their help but only Ran-Darr and Python are available. Following the power lines the heroes find Blackstone the Magnificent trying to summon the Beast (last seen issue #18) and using Marvel and Phase as sacrifices. A demon to help protect him is engaged and the heroes release Marvel and Phase before the summoning spell can be case. The demon is banished and Blackstone escapes.

title: The Hardest Battles are Fought Alone

Action: When the Terror drove Phase insane (see issue #51) a constant battle has raged in the British hero's head. Full of self-doubt, the Terror held a firm grip. Aware of the outside world, Phase draws on the dedication of the heroes who free him from Blackstone the Magnificent (see Comics Action Premiere #140) to once again fight Terror.

The battle is long and hard, threatening to send Phase into a permanent state of insanity. Strong will allows Phase to ultimately triumph and free himself.

title: The Ultimate Spy Ship

Earthguard: Darkwar, Star-Scanner, Marvel, Cyclotron, Corona

heroes: Hawkwind, Ran-Darr, Python

Opponents: Den-Rann, Red Guardians: Monolith, Mercenary, Darkstar, Nova Sanchan action: Star-Scanner awakes to learn of his impending trial (see last issue). He also learns about his new keeper Ran-Darr, another survivor of the destroyed Kree scout ship, who was assigned to "keep and eye" on Star-Scanner. Star-Scanner is not happy with this arrangement but, without any say in the matter, must abide by it. The trial is set for one month.

Marvel, quietly and alone celebrates her first "birthday". Unknowingly she is seen by Darkwar. He mentions this to no one.

Earthguard(r) is asked by the U.S. Government to investigate several mysterious disappearances of our spy planes over Czechoslovakia. Earthguard(r) obtains a super-stealth plane from Wallace and heads off into communist territory. As they approach the area where the spy planes disappeared, they discover the reason: a Kree Battleship. Earthguard's small plane is easily captured by the Kree battleship and once inside the craft they discover it is piloted by the Red Guardians.

Title: "Welcome to Vega"

Earthguard: Marvel, Star-Scanner, Darkwar, Cyclotron, Corona

Heroes: Hawkwind, Ran-Darr

opponents: Red Guardians: Mercenary, Monolith, Darkstar, Nova Sanchan

Action: The Red Guardians are very courteous to Earthguard(r) until their space craft arrives in the Vegan belt. Then they tell Earthguard(r) what their demands are. They are going to take Marvel back to the Kremlin and have her put on trial for spying, espionage and murder; Earthguard(r) will oblige them by not putting up any resistance since they are now several thousand light years away from earth with Monolith being the only person who knows how to control the ship. Marvel, not very enthusiastic about the thought of being tortured at the hands of the soviets, starts a fight.

Marvel is quickly subdued and the rest of Earthguard(r) is getting beaten when Darkwar and Star-Scanner punch a hole in the hull of the space ship throwing Darkstar out into deep-space. To save the lives of the team members on the ship, Marvel agrees to be taken to Moscow without any more fighting. Star-Scanner, Darkwar, Cyclotron, Ran-Darr and Python are taken back to New York City.

Title: Welcome to Moscow. Make yourself at home.

heroes: Mercenary, Marvel

opponents: Politburo

Action: The Russian Assembly has a marvelous time with Marvel as they publicly humiliate her. Their first aim is to kill her since they consider her too dangerous to leave alive. Her only alternative is to submit to brainwashing which, thanks to Soviet technology, will leave her body a mindless shell to be used by the military. She, unsurprising, refuses and they sentence her to death for the many crimes against Russia committed by her. Mercenary steps in and offers another solution. He tells the Politburo that there may be a chance she will work for the Soviet state willingly. He asks for a few hours at least to try to convince her that it is not a fate worse than death to work for the Russians. Grudgingly they agree.

But, what Mercenary has in mind is a little sport for himself and his team. He strikes a deal with Marvel. He will release her along the Lebanese border in exchange for her guarantee she calls Earthguard(r) and waits for the Red Guardians. He thinks the Red Guardians can easily beat Earthguard(r) and, since both teams have been itching for a fight this will give them both the opportunity. Marvel agrees.

title: Greetings from the Red Guardians

Earthguard: Marvel, Star-Scanner, Darkwar, Corona, Cyclotron, Phase

Heroes: Hawkwind, Speedster

opponents: Red Guardians: Mercenary, Monolith, Nova Sanchan, Imperial Defender

Action: After receiving a message from Marvel, Earthguard(r) meets her by stone ruins. She tells them she escaped but when they ask her to leave before the Red Guardians arrive, she refuses. "I made a promise to meet them here. If the rest of you want to leave then you will have to leave without me."

Earthguard(r) does not have to wait long. The Red Guardians arrive and attack but this battle is much different. Without Darkstar occupying Star-Scanner and Darkwar, Nova Sanchan and Imperial Defender are quickly knocked out. In the end even Mercenary is taken down and Earthguard(r) triumphs.