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109-555: The team was created by writer Marv Wolfman . Richard Rider , the first member, appeared in The Man Called Nova #1 (September 1976). The Corps first appeared in Fantastic Four #205 (April 1979). The Nova Corps were originally a space military and exploration group for the planet Xandar. It consisted of 500 soldiers ranging in rank from Corpsman up to Centurion and its leader Centurion Nova Prime. The source of

218-477: A Guardsman -guarded prison van. Namorita, Nova, and Firestar try to free him from the van, but he refuses, determined to serve his sentence. Firestar and Marvel Boy share one last moment and declare their love for one another. Night Thrasher leaves the team to put the Taylor Foundation in order, and Namorita assumes leadership. The team meet Turbo (Michiko "Mickey" Musashi), and get involved in

327-551: A special preview in DC Comics Presents No. 26 (October 1980). The New Teen Titans added the Wolfman-Pérez creations Raven , Starfire and Cyborg to the old team's Robin , Wonder Girl , Kid Flash , and Beast Boy (renamed Changeling). The series became DC's first new hit in years; Christopher J. Priest called Deathstroke , another new character, "the first modern supervillain". Wolfman wrote

436-826: A black ops version of the Nova Corps called the Supernovas (AKA the Black Novas). During the Original Sin storyline, Sam learned from the eye of the murdered Uatu the Watcher that the membership of the Supernovas consisted of thieves and killers. He later discovered that although The Black Novas began with corrupt Novas stealing the Nova Force, they eventually became a sanctioned, special forces arm of

545-454: A cameo appearance in the crossover finale in an episode of Legends of Tomorrow . In 2021, he and George Perez voiced cartoon versions of themselves on two episodes of Teen Titans GO! . In 2023, Wolfman returned to Marvel Comics for the oneshot What If…? Dark: Tomb of Dracula featuring his character Blade. In April 2024, Wolfman co-wrote the final two pages of the landmark 300th issue of Nightwing alongside Tom Taylor . Wolfman, on

654-897: A character who would later be portrayed by actor Wesley Snipes in a film trilogy . In addition, the editorship of Marvel could not resist the opportunity to assign a writer with such a surname to contribute a few stories to their concurrent monster title, Werewolf by Night , with a playful editor's comment: "At last -- WEREWOLF -- written by a WOLFMAN." Wolfman co-created Bullseye in Daredevil No. 131 (March 1976). He and artist John Buscema created Nova in that character's eponymous first issue. Wolfman and Gil Kane adapted Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom concepts into comics in Marvel's John Carter, Warlord of Mars series. Wolfman wrote 14 issues of Marvel Two-in-One starting with issue No. 25 (March 1977). The Spider-Woman series

763-606: A clone. They next involve themselves in a gang war, at the behest of Aegis. This leads to their headquarters being destroyed and the team being ambushed by Heavy Mettle . This group of villains had been hired by Joe Silvermane, the former Blackwing . They move into a new headquarters, a firehouse supplied by a firefighter named Dalton Beck (who is actually the villain Firestrike) as a ploy by Silvermane so that he can attain Turbo's suit. They also team up with Generation X to stop

872-479: A corpsman, Richard Rider utilized some Nova costumes and battle suits designed by his New Warriors teammate Dwayne Taylor . These suits had various additional abilities. Other corpsmen have been observed using traditional weapons, such as firearms. The Nova Corps are ranks from the highest rank to the lowest rank: Note : The Nova Corps has also been affiliated with groups known as the Champions of Xandar , and

981-496: A credible and official offer. In 1985, Wolfman and Pérez launched Crisis on Infinite Earths , a 12-issue limited series celebrating DC's 50th anniversary. Featuring a cast of thousands and a timeline that ranged from the beginning of the universe to the end of time, it killed scores of characters, integrated a number of heroes from other companies to DC continuity , and re-wrote 50 years of DC universe history to streamline it. After finishing Crisis , Wolfman and Pérez produced

1090-666: A few Psionex members, the Fantastic Four , and the Silver Surfer , fight a revitalized Terrax sometime after. Around this time, Silhouette joins, and the New Warriors meet Avenger Rage and solo hero Darkhawk . The Left Hand has also begun collecting random superpowered individuals for a team he names the Folding Circle, one member being Silhouette's brother Midnight's Fire . The Warriors also fought

1199-537: A former adversary of Night Thrasher (unknown to her at that time). Ashu steals Namorita's address book, discovers the secret identities of the Warriors and kidnaps their families. Rage 's grandmother, the last member of his family, accidentally dies. In retaliation, Rage kills Ashu. Night Thrasher justifies Rage's actions in court and the judge rules in Rage's favor and he is released into Chord 's custody. Namorita leaves

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1308-495: A healing factor, and energy powers. These energy powers include the ability to create an electromagnetic beam or a gravimetric pulse. It can also be used to create stargates . The link to the Worldmind allows the wearer to access enemy profiles, analyze an attacker's strengths and weaknesses, interface with computers, analyze energy signatures, create shields against mental attacks and receive transmissions from nearby sources. As

1417-647: A junior counterpart to The Avengers in much the same way that the New Mutants / X-Force did with the X-Men . They made a cameo appearance in The Mighty Thor #411 (December 1989) and made their full debut in The Mighty Thor #412. Over the years, the New Warriors, in their various incarnations, have been featured in five different volumes of the title The New Warriors . The New Warriors team

1526-510: A member. Having taken the road again after renouncing their teacher jobs at Avengers Academy , Speedball and Justice find themselves in the town of New Salem, Colorado, where they get into a little fight with the Salem's Seven , but quickly patch things up after it is clear it was nothing more than a misunderstanding; their leader, Vertigo, explains later to Justice that the place is a haven for all people "born of magic" with Salem's Seven acting as

1635-399: A new Zodiac . Longstrike is killed when she tries to take on this incarnation's version of Cancer . In issue #6, the team reveals each of their identities to the rest of the team. This is the first time Ripcord is clearly identified as Stacy X. Night Thrasher does not reveal his identity to the team, but it is revealed to the readers at the end of the issue. Night Thrasher announces that he

1744-493: A new version of the Electrocutioner , and writing an anniversary adaptation of the first ever Batman story, which was printed along with two other adaptations and the original. He continued as The New Titans writer and revitalized the series with artist Tom Grummett . Wolfman wrote the series until the title's last issue. Wolfman's writing for comics decreased as he turned to animation and television, though he wrote

1853-508: A novel based on Crisis on Infinite Earths , but rather than following the original plot, he created a new story starring the Barry Allen Flash that takes place during the original Crisis story. Wolfman wrote the novelization of the film Superman Returns , and worked on a direct-to-video animated film, The Condor , for Stan Lee 's Pow Entertainment. In 2006, Wolfman was editorial director of Impact Comics (no relation to

1962-566: A novelization of the videogame Batman: Arkham Knight . And in 2016 he published the novelization of the Suicide Squad film through Titan Books. He received the Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. That year also marked Wolfman's first work for Marvel since 1998: a backup story for Bullseye #1, starring the titular character that he had co-created in 1976. In 2019, he wrote

2071-639: A part in Marvel's Annihilation storyline), take part in a televised fight with a group of supervillains. During the fight, one of the supervillains, Nitro , explodes, killing 612 people, including most of the New Warriors. This serves as the start of the Civil War story arc. Throughout the story arc, five former New Warriors ( Dagger , Debrii , Justice , Silhouette , and Ultra Girl ) join Captain America 's Secret Avengers , an underground coalition of anti-registration superheroes. A listing of

2180-530: A part of the 142 registered superheroes. Justice has a prominent role in this series as trainer to the recruits. Turbo is a member of the Loners and a student at the Avengers Academy . Darkhawk has his amulet ripped off at Murderworld and Bolt dies at the hands of his former mentor Agent Zero . In vol. 4, #2 of New Warriors, Night Thrasher tries to talk the depowered Sofia Mantega into joining

2289-608: A proposed ratings system, which led to his being relieved of his editorial duties by the company. DC offered to reinstate Wolfman as an editor provided he apologize for making his criticism of the ratings system public, rather than keeping them internal to the company, but he declined to do so. Wolfman returned to the Dark Knight for another brief run on Batman and Detective Comics , writing "Batman: Year Three", creating Robin III Tim Drake as well as Abattoir and

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2398-622: A second series of The New Teen Titans was launched by Wolfman and Pérez. Other projects by Wolfman for DC during the early 1980s included collaborating with artist Gil Kane on a run on the Superman feature in Action Comics ; a revival of Dial H for Hero with Carmine Infantino ; launching Night Force , a supernatural series drawn by Gene Colan; and a nearly two-year run on Green Lantern with Joe Staton . During their collaboration on that series, Wolfman and Staton created

2507-557: A series of New Teen Titans drug awareness comic books which were published in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign in 1983–1984. The first was pencilled by Pérez and sponsored by the Keebler Company , the second was illustrated by Ross Andru and underwritten by the American Soft Drink Industry , and the third was drawn by Adrian Gonzales and financed by IBM . In August 1984,

2616-576: A sister, Harriet, 12 years older. When Wolfman was 13, his family moved to Flushing, Queens , in New York City, where he attended junior high school. He went on to New York's High School of Art and Design , in Manhattan , hoping to become a cartoonist. Wolfman is Jewish . Marvin Wolfman was active in fandom before he began his professional comics career at DC Comics in 1968. Wolfman

2725-750: A third teenager named Aja is introduced as part of the support staff. He is another technological expert, specializing in computers. Later in the series the team is apprehending another new supervillain team, the Dread Dealers, when they are attacked by the New Warriors Task Force, led in part by Detective Bev Sykes. During the battle, Ripcord and Skybolt are apparently killed (Stacy X shows up later with her powers in Vengeance #1). The team finds out that Night Thrasher has been manipulating them all while finding artifacts necessary to make

2834-402: A time anomaly, before they disappear again. The original Sphinx returns, citing the same reasons, and kills Speedball. Another player, Advent, comes into play, killing all of the Warriors but Timeslip . Advent is a time-traveler, trying to alter time so that the future will be molded to his own wish. His son, Darrion Grobe seeks to stop him, and creates a duplicate of Speedball's body from when he

2943-494: A time machine. His plan is to go back in time to stop the Stamford accident and keep his brother from dying. Instead, the team ends up in a future in which the country is run by Iron Man (who in this reality is a resurrected Dwayne Taylor) and Night Thrasher is Tony Stark. Taylor kills the defenseless Stark simply because he is an "enemy of the state". Donyell ends up having to kill the brother he traveled through time to save. Once

3052-513: A war on crime. They are Vance Astrovik ( Marvel Boy ), Angelica Jones ( Firestar ) and Richard Rider , who at that time believed he had been depowered after quitting the Nova Corps. During their first battle with Terrax , a former herald of Galactus , they are joined by Robbie Baldwin ( Speedball ) and Namorita . They defeat Terrax, but the Avengers unintentionally end up taking the credit. The team decides to stay together and Speedball dubs them

3161-622: A young girl, Rina Patel , who has seen a vision of the future in which Speedball dies. Speedball has had trouble controlling his powers. They are almost able to retrieve Kymaera from the Soldiers of Misfortune, but fail. The team next deal with an impostor Scarlet Spider after the real Scarlet Spider replaces Spider-Man . Eventually, the team comes into contact with the Guardians of the Galaxy , who are searching for Speedball , calling him

3270-464: Is able to kidnap Iron Fist. Night Thrasher calls in the Warriors to help him. They are able to find Iron Fist and their opponent Junzo Muto , but the ritual of stealing Iron Fist's powers has already been completed. Junzo initially defeats them thanks to their lack of teamwork, but finds his match in Night Thrasher. Fatigue strikes however, and the Warriors are forced to retreat. They next face

3379-439: Is breaking up the team. Sofia comes to their headquarters and joins the team after making an impassioned speech about why they should stay together. She becomes Renascence . Renascence uses six metallic tentacles that can fire energy blasts. She also uses technology that creates a force field around her. Several new characters are introduced during the series' run. They include a team of supervillains named Alphaclan. In issue #10,

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3488-504: Is married to Noel Watkins . Wolfman was previously married to Michele Wolfman , for many years a colorist in the comics industry. They have a daughter, Jessica Morgan. (series head writer denoted in bold) New Warriors The New Warriors is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . They traditionally consisted of teenage and young adult heroes, and were often seen to serve as

3597-490: Is no point trying to talk as "judgement is coming", to later teleport out of town. Armed with the scant facts they learned of their aggressors, Justice uses his telekinetic powers to propel himself and Speedball to Avengers Tower at a vertiginous velocity. They are met by an empty place with the exception of Edwin Jarvis , the tower's resident butler, who informs them that the Avengers are busy elsewhere and conducts them to

3706-604: Is suspected of the crime. In Avengers: The Initiative #10 (May 2008) Justice forms a team including former New Warriors Debrii , Rage, Slapstick and Ultra Girl . In Avengers: The Initiative #12, Justice's team of New Warriors joins forces with the MVP clone and the surviving Scarlet Spiders as a Counter Force of underground registered heroes intent on monitoring the actions of the Fifty State Initiative . Ultra Girl decides to leave Counter Force to stay with

3815-525: Is tainted" and all must be burned down. In the ensuing fight, these three strange individuals tell Justice of how they once tried to help mutantkind but were instead betrayed by the X-Men . Eventually, Speedball and the rest of the Salem's Seven are drawn into the combat, but that is still not enough to halt the mysterious assailants who declare that Robbie is also "corrupted" – "altered by an other-dimensional energy". The strangers knock out Brutacus , one of

3924-509: Is undergoing a cellular change, as a result of her being a clone, into a blue-skinned Atlantean. After a conversation with Namor , she renames herself Kymaera and decides to rejoin the New Warriors. Later, Marvel Boy is released on parole, but after anti-mutant attacks on his mother, decides not to rejoin the New Warriors, instead joining Shinobi Shaw and the Upstarts (as planned by him and Thrasher) and renaming himself Justice. Soon after,

4033-455: Is unmade and stop Advent. Meanwhile, the Sphinx takes care of Advent in 1996, thereby stopping Advent in 2092 as well. The New Warriors are led into the kinetic dimension by a hologram of Darrion Grobe, and with the help of Timeslip and the real Speedball, are able to return to their proper time. Later, a rogue faction of HYDRA reveals that it has been living in the team's basement even before

4142-670: The Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series with George Pérez . Among the many characters Wolfman created or co-created are Cyborg , Raven , Starfire , Deathstroke , Tim Drake , Rose Wilson , Nova , Black Cat , Phobia , Bullseye , Vigilante (Adrian Chase) , the Omega Men , and the Nightwing identity of Dick Grayson . Marv Wolfman was born in Brooklyn , New York City, the son of police officer Abe and housewife Fay. He has

4251-594: The History of the DC Universe limited series to summarize the company's new history. Wolfman was involved in the relaunch of the Superman line as well, reinventing nemesis Lex Luthor and initially scripting the Adventures of Superman title with Jerry Ordway as the artist. During this period they introduced Bibbo Bibbowski and Professor Emil Hamilton . Wolfman got into a public dispute with DC over

4360-541: The New Teen Titans: Games graphic novel , which they had begun working on in the late 1980s. Wolfman revived his Night Force series with artist Tom Mandrake in 2012. He served as writing consultant on the video game Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two , which he was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing. In 2015, Wolfman wrote

4469-667: The Fantastic Four when Marvel Boy, who was under the Puppet Master's control, kidnapped the Puppet Master's daughter Alicia Masters . The Puppet Master knew something was wrong with her. It was later revealed that a Skrull, Lyja had been impersonating Alicia. Night Thrasher discovers his company, the Taylor Foundation, is involved in illegal dealings and sets out to find the truth. In the process, he discovers that his legal guardian, Andrew Chord , has been betraying him for an unidentified period of time. The team confronts

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4578-628: The Force of Nature . Night Thrasher stays behind to patch things up with Silhouette and confronts the Punisher . Upon the Warriors return to New York, their headquarters (the Ambrose building) is trashed in a battle with the Hellions for the claim of Firestar. Their next adventure involves the transforming of the world into an alternate one at the whim of Meryet Karim , the second Sphinx as seen in

4687-611: The Forever Yesterday storyline. This alternate world involved Egypt becoming a super-power and the formation of the United States of Assyria where that reality's Avengers served as Meryet's government task force. This is undone by the New Warriors Nova, Marvel Man (Marvel Boy's alternate counterpart), Firestar, and Dwayne Taylor (who is not Night Thrasher in this reality). The New Warriors, together with

4796-644: The Mad Thinker to gather information on the New Warriors in order to create their own superhumans, resulting in their battle with Genetech's team of superhumans, Psionex . The Warriors travel to stop a superhuman named Star Thief that is destroying space launches, with Firestar, Marvel Boy and Namorita ending up on the Moon with the Inhumans . The Team minus Night Thrasher travels to Brazil to rescue Speedball's mother from an environmental terrorist group and battle

4905-589: The Omega Men in Green Lantern No. 141 (June 1981). Wolfman briefly wrote Batman and co-created the Electrocutioner in issue No. 331 (Jan. 1981). Wolfman was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. After Pérez left The New Teen Titans in 1985, Wolfman continued for many years with other collaborators – including pencillers José Luis García-López , Eduardo Barreto and Tom Grummett . In December 1986, Wolfman

5014-561: The Scarlet Spider . The second volume of New Warriors was published in 1999–2000 and this team consisted of Namorita, Nova, Speedball, and Turbo, joined by new members Bolt and Aegis . The third volume of the New Warriors was a six-issue mini-series that sees the superhero team cast as the stars of their own reality TV show. Night Thrasher, Nova, and Speedball were joined by Microbe and Debrii . The New Warriors are at

5123-643: The Supernovas , also known as the Black Novas. The Nova Corps appear in live-action films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Marv Wolfman Marvin Arthur Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book and novelization writer. He worked on Marvel Comics 's The Tomb of Dracula , for which he and artist Gene Colan created the vampire-slayer Blade , and DC Comics 's The New Teen Titans and

5232-577: The war with the Cancerverse , Richard takes the Nova Force from the other recruits to use against Thanos. Richard apparently dies before returning it, leaving the Nova Corps powerless. When the Phoenix Force returns to Earth in a lead-up to the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, a new centurion named Sam Alexander arrives to help the Avengers stop it. It was later revealed that there was

5341-625: The " Child's Play " arc begins, with the Upstarts going on what is called the Younghunt, a mission to capture all of the surviving New Mutants (who are by then called X-Force ) and Hellions . This competition brings the Upstarts into conflict with the Warriors ( Firestar is a former Hellion) and X-Force. The Upstarts capture most of their targets, but Paige Guthrie convinces the Gamesmaster to play another game: instead of killing mutants,

5450-468: The Army. In this new team, Justice and Speedball are returning Warriors, while Nova (Sam Alexander), Scarlet Spider (Kaine), Hummingbird (Aracely Penalba), Sun Girl (Selah Burke), an Inhuman named Haechi (Mark Sim), and an Atlantean Water Snake (Faira Sar Namora) are among the new members. Later issues added two New Men (Jack Waffles and Mr. Whiskers) as supporting cast and Silhouette as

5559-632: The Avengers's database. There they discover a video file made by Cyclops that reveals the identity of the town attackers: the Evolutionaries , a group of pre-homo sapiens that had been transformed in the ancient past by Phastos of the Eternals , who gave them advanced intelligence, armor and power, and assigned them the mission to protect the most advanced human subspecies from the others; at that time, homo sapiens. But left to their own devices,

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5668-410: The DC Comics imprint), publisher of educational manga -style comics for high school students. That same year, starting with issue No. 125, Wolfman began writing DC's Nightwing series. Initially scheduled for a four-issue run, Wolfman's run was expanded to 13 issues, and finished with No. 137. During the course of his run, Wolfman introduced a new Vigilante character. Following Wolfman's departure from

5777-414: The Folding Circle) fight Tai, who reveals her plans for world domination. Tai is defeated and sacrificed in a mystical well along with the Left Hand. In the end, Thrasher rejoins the Warriors. After the adventure, Rage is kicked out of the Avengers and Speedball invites him to join the New Warriors. Meanwhile, just having been convicted of his father's murder, Marvel Boy is being escorted to the Vault via

5886-444: The Initiative, telling Vance that she still believes in the Initiative. The team later partners with Night Thrasher 's new team of Warriors to uncover the truth about the Stamford Incident and the original Night Thrasher's death. Following the disbandment of the last team of Warriors, Counter Force has reclaimed the New Warriors name and they have added the new Night Thrasher to their ranks. With Norman Osborn taking control of

5995-425: The Initiative, the New Warriors return to Camp Hammond to reveal the truth of MVP's death, but they find themselves forced to defend the Initiative from the reactivated Thor clone (now called Ragnarok ). During the battle, the Warriors suffer another casualty when Ragnarok kills one of the Scarlet Spiders. The new New Warriors now call themselves the Avengers Resistance and are fugitives, being accused of releasing

6104-433: The Living Planet is one of the Nova Corps, Richard speaks against this to the Xandarian Worldmind. Richard is stripped of his rank and discharged from the Nova Corps. After most of the new recruits are slaughtered by the Shi'ar 's Imperial Guard , Ego is discharged from the Nova Corps and Richard is reinstated. Afterwards, Richard agrees to train the remaining recruits, which also includes his younger brother Robert. During

6213-400: The New Warriors after a news report he had seen on the battle. The newly created team gets involved in a fight between Thor and Juggernaut , helping Thor to send the Juggernaut to another dimension. In the team's second issue Night Thrasher's past comes back to haunt him as the brother and sister team of Midnight's Fire and Silhouette is introduced. Next, the corporation Genetech hires

6322-409: The Nova Corps power is called the Nova Force which is an unlimited energy generated by a living computer called the Xandarian Worldmind. The Nova Corps police the known universe, under the directive of the Pans World Treaty. The Nova Corps and Xandar were destroyed three times: once by the alien Zorr, once by the space pirate Nebula , and once by the Annihilation Wave . They also had a costly war with

6431-426: The Nova Corps. The Nova Corps is shown to be rebuilding itself, with new recruits and old members, in the 2017 volume of the All New Guardians of the Galaxy . The Nova Force is the source of power for Nova and the entire Nova Corps, generated and controlled by the Living Computers of Xandar called the Xandarian Worldmind. The amount of Nova Force a Nova Corp member can access is determined by their rank. The higher

6540-438: The Skrulls. During the Skrull's Secret Invasion of Earth, the Nova Corps were formed a fourth time to help Nova Prime Richard Rider defend the Project Pegasus building from the Skrulls . Their base of operations was inside Ego the Living Planet , rechristened "Nu-Xandar". During the Kree-Shi'ar War , the Xandarian Worldmind starts recruiting new members to the Nova Corps without telling Richard. Upon learning that Ego

6649-447: The Thinker. Garthan Saal sacrifices himself against Volx, transferring his powers to Nova . Eventually, the reunited New Warriors defeat Volx, at the cost of Timeslip 's powers. Timeslip sabotages the power neutralizer Volx meant to use to rid every superhuman on Earth of their powers. Turbo decides to use the suit to continue on in Mike's honor, and offers Hindsight the chance to share it with her as Mike did. Alex Power decides to leave

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6758-514: The Upstarts should try to find and train young mutants like her. The Gamesmaster is intrigued and cancels the competition. Shortly thereafter, the original Sphinx returns, stealing a portion of the power held by Meryet Karim. New Warriors had earlier encountered her in New Warriors #10–13. Anath-Na Mut plans his revenge against the Warriors, transporting away its eight active members ( Firestar , Justice , Kymaera , Night Thrasher , Nova , Rage , Silhouette and Speedball ) to different places in

6867-423: The Warriors on DestroyAllWarriors.com, a fictional anti-Warriors website created by Hindsight , indicates that all of the Warriors involved in the Stamford incident have been killed. Cameraman John Fernandez is listed as well. The explosion throws Speedball hundreds of miles into Upstate New York. Although he survived the blast, he was depowered due to a kinetic overload. Two unfortunate men who found his body after

6976-462: The blast are accidentally killed when his body releases its stored kinetic energy. Speedball seems to be depowered, and is imprisoned, facing criminal charges for the Stamford disaster. However, he regains his powers, which are now activated whenever he experiences pain. Feeling guilty for his role in the deaths of so many people, Speedball takes on the new identity of Penance and joins the government-funded Thunderbolts . Firestar decides to retire from

7085-436: The center of a televised fight against a number of super villains in Stamford, Connecticut , where Nitro explodes, killing 612 people including several members of the New Warriors. The incident was one of the sparks that led to Marvel's Civil War crossover in 2006 and 2007. The fourth New Warriors series saw Night Thrasher gather a group of former mutants and replace their lost superpowers with technology. The comic book

7194-486: The character Jonny Double in Showcase No. 78 (November 1968) plotted by Wolfman and scripted by Joe Gill . The two co-wrote "Eye of the Beholder" in Teen Titans No. 18 (Dec. 1968), which would be Wein's first professional comics credit. Neal Adams was called upon to rewrite and redraw a Teen Titans story which had been written by Wein and Wolfman. The story, titled "Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho!", would have introduced DC's first African American superhero, but

7303-491: The civil war in the country Trans-Sabal. Although they eventually retreat, the actions of the Warriors (most notably Namorita) have not helped the country. Meanwhile, Silhouette has gone missing and Speedball 's parents split up. Speedball moves to New York with his mother to be closer to the New Warriors. The team faces the new villain Darkling and meet Cloak and Dagger and a second Turbo (Michael Jeffries). Marvel Boy adapts to prison life and becomes good friends with

7412-404: The clone of Thor. They work alongside Gauntlet and Tigra . The Avengers Resistance later help the Initiative team called Heavy Hitters to secede from the program. Later, Night Thrasher is captured and Debrii resigns from the group. After the events of " Siege ", the Avengers Resistance becomes obsolete. Justice and Tigra become staff members of Avengers Academy , while Gauntlet returns to

7521-427: The first and second volume), but initially fails. Namorita and Nova arrive to cheer him up when they are called in to fight Blastaar , and they are quickly aided by Bolt , Firestar , Justice , Turbo , and new hero Aegis . Although Justice and Firestar decline to rejoin the team, the other heroes agree to reform the New Warriors. Shortly thereafter, they fight the Eugenix group, who try to kill Namorita for being

7630-452: The following battle with Hercules, Aegis proves his worth and he is accepted by both Hercules and Zeus. Bolt also decides to reveal that he is sick with the Legacy Virus to the team. In the last pages, Night Thrasher, seeing the good the Warriors having been doing lately, decides to return to the team. He is happily accepted. The New Warriors, including Microbe , Namorita , Night Thrasher and Speedball ( Nova had gone into space to play

7739-420: The guards, most notably the man who would become Hybrid . Marvel Boy helps find a compromise between the inmates and the Vault staff, quelling an inmate uprising. Meanwhile, Carlton LaFroyge ( Hindsight Lad ), Speedball's new neighbor, blackmails him into giving him Warriors membership after Carlton discovers Speedball's secret identity. Some time afterward, Namorita has a one-night stand with Kimeiko Ashu,

7848-584: The judge ruled that Marvel's later use of the characters was sufficiently different to protect it from Wolfman's claim of copyright ownership. In the late 1990s, Wolfman developed the Transformers TV series Beast Machines , which aired on Fox Kids for two seasons from 1999 to 2000. The program was a direct continuation of the Beast Wars series, which itself was a continuation of the original Generation One Transformers show. Beast Machines

7957-741: The likable rogue the Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 194 (July 1979). In 1978, Wolfman and artist Alan Kupperberg took over the Howard the Duck syndicated newspaper comic strip . While writing the Fantastic Four (which Wolfman stated to be his favorite comic), Wolfman and John Byrne introduced a new herald for Galactus named Terrax in No. 211 (Oct. 1979). A Godzilla story by Wolfman and Steve Ditko

8066-532: The main story for the DC Primal Age 100-Page Giant . Also in 2019, DC published the oversized, 100-page comic book Man and Superman , Marv Wolfman's retelling of Superman's origin story, to high acclaim. On the occasion of the Crisis on Infinite Earths Arrowverse crossover, Marv Wolfman co-wrote an episode of The CW series Arrow with Marc Guggenheim that aired in January 2020. He also made

8175-610: The mid-1990s DC series The Man Called A-X . In the early-1990s, Wolfman worked at Disney Comics . He wrote scripts for a seven part DuckTales story (" Scrooge's Quest "), as well as several others – with the characters from the Mickey Mouse universe – that appeared in Mickey Mouse Adventures . He was editor of the comics section on the Disney Adventures magazine for the early years of

8284-480: The mutant immortal Gideon concerning his involvement and he handily defeats and tortures them before giving them the information they seek. Shortly thereafter, the team comes to a moral crossroads in a mission involving cocaine traffickers, and Thrasher leaves the team. Night Thrasher then comes into contact with the Folding Circle. Returning home after the confrontation with Gideon, Marvel Boy accidentally kills his father when his father attacks him (as he has done in

8393-632: The new villain Biohazard. After an adventure in the subway, Turbo decides to trust Dalton with her secret identity, and Firestrike hesitates, but eventually decides to not kill Turbo. She uncovers his identity as Firestrike accidentally, but he surrenders and assists the Warriors in apprehending Silvermane. However, the two lovers are forced to split up as Beck enters the Federal Witness Protection Program. In Seattle, Night Thrasher and Iron Fist fight The Hand , which

8502-584: The pages of Nightwing , the Vigilante was spun off into his own short-lived title, which Wolfman wrote. He wrote a miniseries starring the Teen Titan Raven , a character he and George Pérez co-created during their run on The New Teen Titans , helping to revamp and update the character. He worked with Pérez on a direct-to-DVD movie adaptation of the popular "Judas Contract" storyline from their tenure on Teen Titans . In 2011, he and Pérez completed

8611-488: The panel "Marvel Comics: The Method and the Madness" at the 1974 New York City Comic Art Convention , told the audience that when he first began working for DC Comics , he received DC's first writing credit on its mystery magazines. Gerry Conway , who wrote the horror-host interstitial pages between stories, wrote in one issue, House of Secrets Vol. 1 Issue 83, that the following story, "The Stuff that Dreams are Made of"

8720-573: The past). Marvel Boy is arrested and found guilty of negligent homicide , while Firestar reveals her love for him. With previously unrevealed abilities, Tai (Thrasher's surrogate mother) confronts and seemingly kills Silhouette . Silhouette survives and assembles the remaining New Warriors. They learn from Chord of a mystical plot to take control of the world in Cambodia, and they recruit Rage and Darkhawk to help them. The Folding Circle also travels to Cambodia. The New Warriors (with later help of

8829-457: The publication. In 1997, on the eve of the impending release of the Blade motion picture , Wolfman sued Marvel Characters Inc. over ownership of all characters he had created for Marvel Comics. A ruling in Marvel's favor was handed down on November 6, 2000. Wolfman's stance was that he had not signed work-for-hire contracts when he created characters including Blade and Nova. In a nonjury trial,

8938-443: The rank, the more power they can access. It has been observed, such as the case of Garthan Saal , that some exposures to the Nova Force can induce madness and mental instability with prolonged exposure to extremely high levels. The Nova Force can grant the recipient (to varying degrees depending upon rank) various abilities including superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and perception. It also grants flight at faster than light speed,

9047-411: The rogue sentient Iron Man armor and are promptly defeated, before it sacrifices its existence to save Tony Stark from dying. In the last issue of the series ( New Warriors vol. 2, #10) the team (minus Nova and Speedball) travels to Olympus , brought there by Hercules , and meets Zeus . Aegis is accused of stealing his magical breastplate by Hercules, but it was in fact a gift from Athena . During

9156-503: The staff." He added, "We used to farm the books out to Harry Chester Studios [sic] and whatever they pasted up, they pasted up. I formed the first production staff, hired the first layout people, paste-up people." Wolfman stepped down as editor-in-chief to spend more time writing. He and artist Gene Colan crafted The Tomb of Dracula , a horror comic that became "one of the most critically-acclaimed horror-themed comic books ever". During their run on this series, they created Blade ,

9265-672: The suit and kidnaps Friday (the Kymellian spaceship which is not only an ally of Power Pack , but also of the Warriors). With the help of the Thinker , Night Thrasher and Rage rescue Namorita from the Soldiers of Misfortune, while the Warriors join forces with Garthan Saal to stop Volx, almost leading to the death of Friday. During the adventure, Firestar asks Justice to marry her, to which he happily agrees. Night Thrasher, Rage, and Namorita join their former teammates, thanks to

9374-500: The superhero business altogether, although she later appears as a member of Young Allies Former New Warrior Aegis appears in X-Factor #9, escaping from S.H.I.E.L.D. 's Superhuman Restraint Unit with the help of Jamie Madrox . He later dies after jumping out a window expecting his armor to protect him. Justice, Silhouette, Debrii, Rage , Timeslip , Zero-G and Aegis all appear on the cover of Avengers: The Initiative #1 as

9483-564: The team in their search for Kymeara. The Warriors help out with a UN peace conference, assisted by Sabra . Nova loses his powers and Turbo and Alex Power become full members while Hindsight Lad becomes simply Hindsight. Night Thrasher and Rage decide to train Psionex. Next, the team involves themselves into " Maximum Clonage ", fighting and capturing Helix . The Scarlet Spider joins the team afterwards. The team faces Psionex again, now led by former Warrior Night Thrasher, and also deal with

9592-481: The team is back in their own time, they agree to disband. In the pages of Avengers: The Initiative #6 (January 2008), the team's drill instructor Gauntlet is left battered with 'NW' (the New Warriors tag) sprayed on him. It is revealed that former New Warrior Slapstick attacked Gauntlet out of revenge for the man's comments about his dead friends while drilling the Initiative recruits. Unfortunately, Rage

9701-514: The team moved in, but they are stopped by the combined actions of the Warriors and the Avengers . Helix and Turbo (Michiko) both decide to leave, but Turbo is confronted by a man called Dan Jones, who has come to reclaim the Torpedo suit the Turbos wear. Dan Jones is in fact the last Dire Wraith Volx, an enemy the Warriors fought against before and who killed the other Turbo (Mike). Volx claims

9810-416: The team, believing that Power Pack could've defeated Volx without nearly destroying Friday. Night Thrasher, Namorita, and Rage rejoin the Warriors as old grudges are mended and the team comes full circle. During a mission involving a Badoon invasion sometime later, Ultra Girl and Slapstick help out the Warriors and are made members. Speedball tries to assemble a new team after they disbanded (between

9919-458: The team, feeling guilty. Nova is attacked by Garthan Saal , a Nova centurion, and after a conflict between the Warriors, Saal, Firelord , Air-Walker , and a power-mad Nova, Xandar is restored. Nova is promoted to the rank of Centurion Prime and allowed to return to Earth to continue his activities as a superhero. Meanwhile, Namorita faces trouble in Atlantis , and is captured. Her body

10028-481: The team. Later, they face the Psionex team again and travel to the country of Zaire, where the team is captured by the Soldiers of Misfortune. At the end of the battle Kymeara is brainwashed and teleports away along with the villains. Night Thrasher and Rage leave the team after a falling out over their absence on the team's previous mission, and the team also fights an enraged Namor , who eventually decides to help

10137-415: The team. She refuses him and the rest of the team is seen in the shadows watching the exchange. In the next issue the team is revealed, though not all of their identities. The team is shown to be: Grace and Kaz are also introduced in the third issue. Grace is a teenager who has a natural talent with technology. Kaz builds the weapons that Night Thrasher designs. On their first mission the team goes up against

10246-430: The time-stream to begin their life together anew. In New Warriors #51 the team is restructured as the Mad Thinker again advises the team, especially on the difficulties of growing up as individuals as a team. The main team is made up of the six original founders (Firestar, Justice, Kymaera, Night Thrasher, Nova, and Speedball). Rage. Hindsight Lad, Dagger and Alex Power become reserve members. Bandit and Silhouette leave

10355-416: The time-stream. In response, Hindsight Lad and Bandit gather a new team of Warriors ( Dagger , Darkhawk , Powerpax and Turbo ) to go and rescue the others with the aid of Meryet. They succeed and the two teams of Warriors combat the Sphinx together, who surrenders after learning of his own true nature and finally accepts Meryet's ages-old offer of love. They merge into one composite being and depart into

10464-422: The town protectors, to later take a gene sample of him "as requested by their lord". Taking advantage of their enemies' distraction, Justice manages to land a telekinetic blow on the face of the trio's leader and crack his armor, revealing him to be a hairy humanoid. As Vance tries to parley with them, the enigmatic attackers simply continue their proclamations against the town's inhabitants and mutants, arguing there

10573-485: The town's resident protectors. While the conversation deviates to Justice's and Speedball's intention of reforming the New Warriors and the difficulties that that will probably bring due the team's persisting bad reputation for their involvement in the Civil War events, they notice the teleportation arrival into the town of a trio of enigmatic figures clad in advanced armor. One of these beings declares that "the blood here

10682-426: The work of Neil Gaiman . In 1972, Wolfman moved to Marvel Comics as a protégé of then-editor Roy Thomas . When Thomas stepped down, Wolfman eventually took over as editor, initially in charge of the publisher's black-and-white magazines , then finally the color line of comics. Wolfman said in 1981 that, "Marvel never gave [its] full commitment to" the black-and-white line. "No one wanted to commit themselves to

10791-587: Was changed into a Dragon Lord story published in Marvel Spotlight vol. 2 No. 5 (March 1980). The creature that the Dragon Lord battled was intended to be Godzilla but since Marvel no longer had the rights to the character (which lapsed the previous year) the creature was modified to a dragon called The Wani. In 1980, Wolfman returned to DC after a dispute with Marvel. Teaming with penciller George Pérez , Wolfman relaunched DC's Teen Titans in

10900-481: Was created by editor Tom DeFalco , who brought together existing Marvel characters Firestar , Marvel Boy , Namorita , Nova , and Speedball , and added the newly created Night Thrasher . Through the 75-issue comic series, the team fought adversaries, including the second Sphinx , the Folding Circle, and even the Fantastic Four . Over time, the team was joined by Silhouette , Rage , Hindsight Lad , Bandit , Timeslip , Dagger , Darkhawk , Powerpax , Turbo , and

11009-442: Was informed by Marvel writer Chris Claremont that a DC executive had approached Claremont at a holiday party and offered him the position of writer on The New Teen Titans . Claremont immediately declined the offer and told Wolfman that apparently the publisher was looking to replace him on the title. When Wolfman confronted DC executives about this, he was told it was "just a joke", although Claremont reiterated that he took it to be

11118-469: Was launched as part of the All-New Marvel NOW! initiative in 2014. The story saw original New Warriors members Justice (formerly Marvel Boy), Speedball, and Silhouette return to team up with the new Nova , Scarlet Spider , Hummingbird , Sun Girl , Haechi and Water Snake. Dwayne Taylor, the vigilante known as Night Thrasher meticulously researches a group of young heroes to help him wage

11227-491: Was launched in April 1978 by Wolfman and artist Carmine Infantino . As the first regular writer on Spider-Woman , he redesigned the character, giving her a human identity as Jessica Drew. Wolfman succeeded Len Wein as writer of The Amazing Spider-Man and in his first issue, No. 182 (July 1978), had Peter Parker propose marriage to Mary Jane Watson who refused, in the following issue. Wolfman and Keith Pollard introduced

11336-568: Was met with mixed reviews, as the show was praised for its story, but was criticized for its focus on spirituality. Previously, in the 1980s, Wolfman wrote the story for Optimus Prime's return in " The Return of Optimus Prime " of the third season of Transformers . A decade later, Wolfman began writing in comics again, scripting Defex , the flagship title of Devil's Due Productions ' Aftermath line. He wrote an "Infinite Crisis" issue of DC's "Secret Files", and consulted with writer Geoff Johns on several issues of The Teen Titans . Wolfman wrote

11445-573: Was one of the first to publish Stephen King , with "In A Half-World of Terror" in Wolfman's horror fanzine Stories of Suspense No. 2 (1965). This was a revised version of King's first published story, " I Was a Teenage Grave Robber ", which had been serialized over four issues (three published and one unpublished) of the fanzine Comics Review that same year. Wolfman's first published work for DC Comics appeared in Blackhawk No. 242 (Aug.–Sept. 1968). He and longtime friend Len Wein created

11554-453: Was published from 2007 to 2009. The story reveals that Night Thrasher is the original Night Thrasher's brother, formerly known as Bandit, who wants to travel back in time and change the events at Stamford that killed his brother. When they try to travel back in time, the team ends up in a dystopic future where the original Night Thrasher is a ruthless dictator. The New Warriors return to their own time and disband. The fifth New Warriors series

11663-547: Was rejected by publisher Carmine Infantino. The revised story appeared in Teen Titans No. 20 (March–April 1969). Wolfman and Gil Kane created an origin for Wonder Girl in Teen Titans No. 22 (July–Aug. 1969) which introduced the character's new costume. He and artist Bernie Wrightson co-created Destiny in Weird Mystery Tales No. 1 (July–Aug. 1972), a character which would later be used in

11772-519: Was told to him by a "wandering Wolfman." The Comics Code Authority , which did not permit the mention of werewolves or wolfmen at that time, demanded it be removed. DC informed the Authority that "Wolfman" was the writer's last name, so the Authority insisted he be given a credit to show the "Wolfman" was a real person. Once Wolfman was given a credit, other writers demanded them as well. Shortly, credits were given to all writers and artists. Wolfman

11881-399: Was trapped in the kinetic dimension during "Time And Time Again", so that he can travel to the first alteration point, leaving the actual Speedball in the kinetic dimension, meaning that Darrion Grobe replaced Speedball from New Warriors (vol. 1) #50 and onwards. Instead of dying, the New Warriors are transported to the year 2092, where they have seven minutes to save themselves before reality

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