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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published April 1997
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 52
Editing Tom Brevoort; Bob Harras (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Thunderbolts [Citizen V; Meteorite; Atlas; Mach-1; Techno; Songbird]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mark Bagley (signed)
Inks Vince Russell (signed)
Letters Comicraft
Notes The background color on the cover of the first printing is green; the background color on the cover of the second printing is pink
Reprinted in Thunderbolts: First Strikes (Marvel, 1997 series) #[nn]; in Thunderbolts: Justice Like Lightning (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn]; in Thunderbolts (Marvel, 2006 series) #150 (January 2011)

38 page Thunderbolts story "Justice ... Like Lightning!"

Characters Thunderbolts [Citizen V; Meteorite; Atlas; Mach-1; Techno; Songbird] (see Notes); Rat Pack; Wrecking Crew [Wrecker; Thunderball; Piledriver; Bulldozer]; Dallas Riordan (introduction); Hallie Takahama (introduction); Spider-Man (cameo); Black Widow (cameo); New Warriors [Night Thrasher; Nova; Namorita; Speedball] (cameo)
Synopsis Earth's newest heroic team, the Thunderbolts, bursts on the scene to widespread acclaim ... but all is not as it seems.
Genre superhero
Script Kurt Busiek
Pencils Mark Bagley
Inks Vince Russell
Colors Joe Rosas
Letters Dave Lanphear; Oscar Gongora [as Comicraft's Dave 'n' Oscar]
Notes The Thunderbolts first appeared in The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #449 (January 1997). As revealed in this story, the Thunderbolts are the Masters of Evil: Baron Helmut Zemo disguised as Citizen V; Moonstone as Meteorite; Goliath as Atlas; Beetle as Mach-1; Fixer as Techno; Screaming Mimi as Songbird.
Reprinted in Thunderbolts: First Strikes (Marvel, 1997 series) #[nn]; in Thunderbolts: Justice Like Lightning (Marvel, 2001 series) #[nn]; in Thunderbolts (Marvel, 2006 series) #150 (January 2011)