HEROES INCORPORATED
Issue 21 & 22: Summaries
"Fires of the New Sun"
The Heroes Inc team (Playboy,
Human Jackrabbit, Plasma-man and the Cleaning Agent) are in Tokyo for the
Olympics. While at a dinner party, which includes the Soviet and
Red Chinese representatives, it is attacked by a group of New Sun
(Japanese) nationalists in powered armor who are trying the kill the
communists.
The team stops them, but at great cost as the armor
is equipped with ‘kamikaze’ bombs which exploded when the wearer was
knocked unconscious. Many guests were wounded after the first two
attackers were killed, forcing the heroes to careful contain the others
until the rest of the guests could be removed from the scene. [The
Human Jackrabbit was able to use his new mega-scale running to get the
wounded people to the hospital.]
(This story is
derfined as part of a “secret files” collection
published in the 1990s filling in some continuity gaps. It was
decided
by the players and the GM to be far to violent and dark to have been
part of the ‘official’ 1960s continuity.)
Issue 21: Dragons
of California
The Heroes (Playboy,
Kid Comic and Plasma-Man)
are in California visiting Diamond Industries plants and speaking at
various functions. At an American Legion meeting, a costumed
vigilante named Nagimaki shows up requesting the team’s help in
stopping a shipment of ‘Dragon’s Blood’ a new opium derivative being
smuggled in by the Triads. She gives a sample to Jack, who takes
it to the local Diamond chemical labs to be analyzed (it is a mixture
of refined opium and ‘an unidentified organic substance’).
Jack agrees to help. Nagimaki leads the team
to a warehouse near the docks and the team assaults the
warehouse. With the help of Nagimaki they defeat the Triad goods
(armed with SMGs) and two ‘Dragon-men’. When they investigate the
goons, they find that they have patches of skin replaced by scales.
Jack gives Nagimaki a Heroes Inc communicator then
she slips away before the police show up.
Issue 22: The
King of Cold
It is Christmas time in New York.
Janice comes in and asks Jack if he is going to attend the White House
Christmas party, Jack replies that he will but he intends to return to
NY on Christmas eve. Janice looks over his shoulder and out the
window. “Funny,” she says, “the weather report said it was going to
clear today.” Jack turns to look out into a blizzard.
The team then receives a call from the lobby of the
Empire State saying that the doors have been frozen shut. The
team (Playboy, Kid Comic and Plasma-man) descend to melt a way
out through six feet of ice and snow. They find that the blizzard
has almost blown out and that a snowcat (tracked vehicle) was
retreating away. The team follows and catch the snowcat (which
uses ice based weapons to try and escape). They question the
driver and find out they work for the King of Cold who is using the
storm and ice to stage a massive robbery.
Jack and Kid Comic ride in the snowcat while
Plasma-man flew to the scene of the robbery. There they find a
squad of men in arctic clothing looting Tiffany’s directed by a man in
dark blue and white powered armor. Seeing the heroes, he orders
most of his men to take their loot and flee, while he and a squad of
frost weapon armed goons fight the heroes.
The fight does not go the heroes way, after a
classic ice versus fire blasts negating each other, Plasma-man is taken
down by two powerful cold attacks. The goons absorb some attacks
but manage to do very little damage. Elaine Elizabeth shows up on
the scene and manages to take down one of the goons on her
own! Jack and Kid Comic try (and fail) a coordinated
attack and are then blasted by the King of Cold, a second coordinated
attack hits but does not quite finish the King off. His counter
attack does finish our heroes though, leaving the King of Cold
victorious at the end of the comic!
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