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Femforce (1985) comic books 1996-1998

  • Issue #89
    Femforce (1985) 89

    Cover pencils by Eric Coile, inks by Bill Black. Terror At The Terminal!, script by Mark Schezzini, pencils by Eric Coile, inks by Mark Heike and Chris Allen; The new Femforce headquarters is under construction, and and Valkyra (incognito) is a part of the construction crew; Why?; So that when the facility is done, she can break out former Fearforce teammate Proxima, to plan a new revenge on the Femforce; Getting out was the easy part, and as soon as theyre free, theyre on the run immediately, recognized by law enforcement types; The FF, temporarily housed in a Orlando hotel while construction is completed, confront them at a downtown bus depot; A five-alarm, allout battle ensues, until a high-voltage jolt from Rayda takes down Valkyra, and the giant woman known as Tara cages Proxima in some steel girders. Proxima pinup by Eric Coile and Chris Allen. Ms. Victory and Valkyra pinup by Manuel Benavides and Chris Allen. 36 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #90A
    Femforce (1985) 90A

    Standard copy. Cover pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Chris Allen. Deadly Quarry!, script and pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark G. Heike; Its Too Tall Tara solo, going back to her conservation roots as a little girls suggestion at a public appearance starts the girl with the growing powers on an investigation of private hunting preserves; Things arent too far out of the ordinary, till a dose of knockout juice for Tara and friend Janis Lawson has Tara as the object of a hunt by big-game types in a wilderness adventure reminiscent of The Most Dangerous Game. 36 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #91
    Femforce (1985) 91

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. The Scent of Evil, script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; Though stripped of most of his mystical power as Capricorn, Mr. Brimstone is still free, and operating in Miami; One who is not free is The Scarlet Scorpion, still controlled by Brimstone, even as Rad is deserting the one-time goat god; Doing her best to keep him from doing too much trouble, She-Cat is down South Florida way keeping an eye on Scorp, and she has Crimebuster in tow; When a battle in an abandoned movie theatre catches Raydas attention, and Cat and C.B. have followed The Scorpion to the same spot, its nothing short of a brawl. 36 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #92
    Femforce (1985) 92

    Cover pencils by Bradford Gorby, inks by Bill Black. Terror Times Two, script and pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark G. Heike; The past is seemingly catching up with everyone this issue as old-timer Harry Diamond tracks down Rad to serve her with divorce papers, General Strock is called on the carpet for breach of protocol by her superior officer -who happens to be her Dad, and that ol' paranormal maker, Dr. Lieber is back, with a new hybrid- clones grown from the DNA of Rurian bodies, enhanced by V-formula super-vitamins; He calls them Furies- and they just might be the deadliest female fighting machines this planet has ever seen; And when their initial sudden, swift and deadly attack has Rad all but defeated, who comes to her aid? 36 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #93A
    Femforce (1985) 93A

    Standard copy. Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Shattered Memories," script and pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; While The Terrorist fights off Dr. Lieber's Furies at the Burke home, David makes a desperate decision- allow himself to be taken into custody by the "men in black", so The Terrorist and his soon-to-be ex-wife can make a getaway; As General Strock suspects, Lieber and The Furies are actually involved with the worries, Rad and The Terrorist act- they break into The Colorado Project in hopes of determining who's behind it all; They have to fight The Justice Squad to do it, and when the best they can come out of that battle with is a draw, they need a last-second bail-out to escape; It comes in the form of a helicopter piloted by...General Strock? 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #94
    Femforce (1985) 94

    Cover pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Rad To the Bone!", script and pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; With Rad, The Terrorist and General Strock all missing, the authorities assume the rogue paranormals have kidnapped her; When Ms. V. attempts to get involved, Nightveil uses a magic spell to stop her-on orders from the General herself; When our three protagonists find Lieber's bunker stronghold, there are of course more Furies to fight, but by the time they're disposed of and Lieber himself is reached, his old, enfeebled body is lifeless- his project and legacy is over; Hmmm.... but why are some of those vials of genetic material missing... ? Later , at a tearful reunion at little Jason's gravesite, Joan and Jen have a reconciliation of sorts; And even a new career for Rad's ex- how about David Burke, Government Agent!!? Ms. Victory illustration, pencils by Eric Coile, inks by Mark Heike. Colt: The Weapons Mistress illustration, pencils by Paul McGuigan, inks by Mark Heike. Jennifer Burke illustration, pencils by Kevin Hampton, inks by Bill Black. 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #95
    Femforce (1985) 95

    Photo cover of Nightveil (Mary Capps) and Nightemma. "Ring of Rage," script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; A night out on the town in Denver for -Cat and Mike (The Scarlet Scorpion) McCluskey gets ugly when they're taken by surprise by a trigger-happy mugger in a back alley; Momentarily dazed by gunshot wounds, the thief takes not only 'Cat's purse, but also the mystic ring which holds the cat -Sehkmet in check; With the snarling, feral beast in control of She-Cat's body, an injured Scarlet Scorpion cannot stop her, and it's up to Nightveil to save the day; Meanwhile, Synn jumps into her new job as the Femforce public relations director with vigor. "Ankh-ors Aweigh!" starring Nightemma, Fangirl, Synn and Dr. Pretorious, script by Bill Black, art by Richie Prosch. 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #96
    Femforce (1985) 96

    Cover pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Mangled By the Claw!", script by Bill Black, pencils by C. Bradford Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; It's manga mania as that horrible apparition out of the Golden Age, The Claw returns; He's taken over the underwater city of Oceanus One, and uses it as his base of operations for a new plan of world conquest; Hoodwinking Synn and her newly-created anime friends Popsie-Pop and Manga-Synn into coming down to Oceanus, The Claw hooks up her synestropic brain to a machine that will broadcast its reality-warping powers across the globe; His fiendish scheme?; Remake ever human on the planet in his own image; Well, since Synn recently got hooked on reading manga and looking at anime, her mind is still filled with those images, so when the machine is turned on- you guessed it—it's big heads, big eyes and big hair for every man, woman and child on the planet; This doesn't slow down The Claw a bit, though, as with an army of hypnotically-controlled Captain Freedoms in tow, he launches a full-scale attack on Washington D. C.; As the FF giantess Tara Fremont grows to twelve stories high to bring The Claw down to size, he grows even bigger than the giant woman heroine; Can anything stop him? 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #97
    Femforce (1985) 97

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Up From the Ashes," script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; With The Femforce giantess Tara down and out, it is Synn who saves the day; Finally beginning to master her fluctuating mental abilities, she uses her vast powers to return The Claw to his fictional existence in a comic book, and change eveything back to normal, just in time for the new gang to move into the new FF headquarters; Thanks to Synn's superior work as P.R. director, their image has never been better, so when she schedules the gang to appear at a charity fashion show, of course they go; When the mysterious sponsor for the urban renewal project, Vonn Ferris, has Dr. Myla Chang as his date at the event, the FF get suspicious; But when a terrifying fire spirit crashes the show and calls him a murderer; well something is definitely up. 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #98
    Femforce (1985) 98

    Special Spanish translation issue. Cover pencils by C.B. Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. The Cat and the Pendulum!, script by Bill Black and Mauricio Hunt (Translator), pencils by C.B. Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; When She-Cat meets aging horror film great Verdon Fell, she is starstruck like weve never seen her; When the pushy Cat insists on horning in on the special midnite V.I.P. opening of his new Florida tourist attraction, she cant know trouble will follow; Fells classic horror acting career fizzled when modern gory horror flooded the market, and when the three young directors he most blames for the change in film style take the tour with him, he has a murderous revenge scheduled for them, a la Edgar Allen Poe. Convention Report article. Vincent Price bio. FemForce: Beyond 100 article. 36 pgs. $2.95. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #99
    Femforce (1985) 99

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "The Queen of Outer Space," script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; What Nightveil didn't tell the others last month when The Enigma Cloud appeared, was that it spoke to her; When she confesses to Stardust that the voice she heard was Dan Barton-The Black Commando-an all-out team effort into investigating the phenomenon is started; Synn, using her newly-honed superior mental state creates a magnetic flux field to protect them, a war-surplus Rurian spacecraft is procured from the Defense Department, and into the orbiting Enigma Cloud they go; Just seconds into penetration of the cloud, the ship is boarded by a strange alien presence, and the team is split apart and teleported off the ship; Inside the cloud itself, Ms. V. finds colonel Mitchell Cameron, the human half of Bolt; Dusty, Tara and She-Cat wind up on Zaltair, a strange alien world where Nightveil soon appears, as well; Who else happens to be there, as supreme commander of the local army, but The Black Commando!! 36 pgs. Cover price $2.95.

  • Issue #100
    Femforce (1985) 100
    • Signed by Bill Black, C. Brad Gorby, and Mark G. Heike and numbered 178/300. No certification included.

    Special 100th issue. Cover pencils by C. Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. Milestone Issue No. 100 article. Full Circle, script by Bill Black, pencils by C. Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; With a little time spent on Zaltair, The Femforce begin to learn it is a strange place, indeed. Somehow, it changes people; The Black Commando is completly sane, and Nightveil retains her magical abilities, even without her Cloak Of Darkness; Tara can grow to titanic heights, taller than any giantess ever seen, yet She-Cat gets Sehkmet's werecat form, but her own intellect; And Stardust-poor Stardust loses her powers altogether; While it appears the FF have fallen right in the middle of a civil war between the Zaltair and the Preen, it's actually more like a game- only the casualties are real!; Ms.Victory and Kinetics make it down to the surface just in time for the Zaltairian's big win; Kinetics is repowered, Mitch Cameron regains control of his Bolt half, and The Black Commando emplores NV to stay on Zaltair with him; When an urgent distress call to Earth comes to Nightveil from Azagoth, the girls realize they must return immediately. Sharon Blair as Synn photo. Color photos of Femforce on the back cover. 44 pgs. $3.95. Cover price $3.95.

  • Issue #102
    Femforce (1985) 102

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike and Bill Black. "The Yesterday Syndrome" (Part 2), script by Bill Black, pencils by Dick Ayers and Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; As the Femforce careen through time going backward, they have already passed the points when Tara, Stardust and Synn gained there powers, so all three have disappeared; Now, they are existing long before Laura Wright gained her occult powers as Nightveil; She is still with She-Cat and Ms. V., but it is now as the non-super-powered Blue Bulleteer, and helpless against any mystical threat; The Black Shroud stirs up the coals, appearing to Lady Luger and Fritz Voltzman; Holed up in a New Jersey warehouse in 1948, he tells them he will send them back in time four years-enough to change the course of World War II, with what they now know, if they will do him one favor-eliminate the Femforce! "The Big Deal" starring General Strock , Garganta, John Carl Buechler, and the entire cast of Seinfeld, script by R. Lee Brown, pencils by Eric Cole, inks by Mark Heike. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #103
    Femforce (1985) 103

    Cover art by Brad Gorby. "She-Cat--Last Hero Standing," script by Bill Black, pencils by Dick Ayers (pages 1-4) and Brad Gorby (pages 5-24), inks by Mark Heike; With Ms. Victory devolved out of existence, only She-Cat and Nightveil (in her non-powered Blue Bulleteer persona) are left, and they are in the clutches of Lady Luger, in the bunker of the German High Command, in the waning minutes of The War in Europe; History plays out as it should for all therein, except for the Femforcers; As Nightveil winks out of existence, She-Cat slides back further in time, to 1938; Meanwhile, in the present, general Strock sends a contingent of paranormals into the Enigma Cloud, now found in the asteroid belt beyond Mars, in search of the missing Femforce; What Paragon and the others find there is Bolt, and four strange alien entities that split off from him when he was rejoined with his human side; The Multibolts. Learning little from him, Bolt is soon teleported away by the strange being known as The Shimmerer. "The Big Deal" starring Synn, Garganta and She-Cat, script by R. Lee Brown, pencils by Eric Coile, inks by Mark Heike. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #104
    Femforce (1985) 104

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike and Bill Black. "Return From the Ashes: Part 1," script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; Back in the "present" the FF find their time jaunt has changed the course of history; The Justice Squad (Ugh!) is now the government's top super team, the Vault Heroes have never been revived, Synn can no longer access her newly-harnessed superior mental state, and most importantly, The Shroud Wars haven't been fought-yet!; It's not bad enough that the FF had to go through it once- they've got to do it again; Meanwhile, we learn more about the origin of Firebeam, and how Iron Jaw was at the root of it. "Prelude To Darkness," script by Bill Black, pencils by Rik Levins, Richard Rome (as The Count) and Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; The preparations for The Shroud's upcoming onslaught begin; Using the benefit of experience, the FF work out a battle plan, and recruit their allies; Ms. V. convinces The Sentinels of Justice and Captain Freedom and company of The Shroud's threat; next it's on to Doc Weir. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #105
    Femforce (1985) 105

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Return From the Ashes: Part 2," script by Bill Black and Brad Gorby, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; The "new reality" the Femforce has to live with is taking its toll as Nightveil blows up at General Strock's blase' attitude toward the threat of The Shroud, and Synn refuses to leave her room because of her diminished mental powers; When an out-of-control fire threatens the Ocala National Forest, not even She-Cat and Tara at her giantess size can contain it, so Stardust and Rayda are called in to help; Even that is not enough, until Firebeam arrives to Quell the blaze. "Shadows of Yesterday," script by Bill Black, pencils by Bill Black, Brad Gorby, and Rik Levins, inks by Mark Heike; Nightveil tells The Sentinels how history ran in her reality, and how The Shroud's attack might go in theirs; Assuring her of complete cooperation, Paragon even plans to undo the mental limits he put on himself during The Armageddon Factor, so that he can mentally expand to become The Shroud's match; Relying on old friends Richard and Nikki Latimer, he cannot know that they are already agents of...The Black Shroud! 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #106
    Femforce (1985) 106

    Cover art by Brad Gorby. "Return From the Ashes" (part 3), script by Bill Black, Rebekah Black and Brad Gorby, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; Marshalling all available forces for the coming onslaught, the Femforce petition to have Firebeam inducted as an official member; Since the spirit has limited range, being somewhat rooted to the vicinity of the place she died, General Gordon is skeptical as to her usefulness; Fate soon takes a hand as a fatal car crash on I-4 gives Nightveil the impetus to implement a mystical plan that will allow the victim's grieving family to have their daughter back, as well as give firebeam unlimited mobility through a new human host body; Meanwhile, Synn becomes more strident than ever in her refusal to face the coming calamity; And she doesn't even mean The Shroud War! "Shadows of Yesterday: Part 2," script by Bill Black, pencils by Bill Black and Brad Gorby, inks by Bill Black; As Paragon works on the device to amplify his mind to match The Black Shroud with Richard and Nikki Latimer, he has no idea that it is through jealousy ( Richard's envy for Paragon's immortality while he must age, and Nikki's bitterness over Paragon's relationship with Ms. V.) that The Shroud was able to possess them. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #107
    Femforce (1985) 107

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Darkgods: Rampage" (part 1), script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; As the Latimer's fry Paragon's brain on the moon, and open The Shroud's dimensional rift to let in the first of his demon soldiers, Roger Brant helps Keela (Firebeam) Sentry try to predict where and when The Shroud will strike; Meanwhile, General Gordon has the uncooperative Synn gassed and sent to Doc Weir's asylum, as the FF realize that no one in the government knows that Doc Weir has superheroes in stasis; All begin to see that The Shroud has been systematically removing paranormal opposition all along; As Nightveil goes to investigate the dimensional rift, the first of The Shroud's hoardes strike in Miami, and Stardust and Ms. V. rush there to stop them. "Old Flames," script and pencils by Chris Allen, inks by Mark Heike; Way back in the Golden Age of comics, Lauren (Yankee Girl) Mason was engaged to Dr. Corey Habot; After 50 years in stasis, Lauren has not aged a bit; Corey, without the benefit, most certainly has; Before long, he realizes that they cannot pick up their relationship where they left off, even if she thinks they can. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #108
    Femforce (1985) 108

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Dark Gods: Rampage" (part 2), script by Bill Black, pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike; As Astron, Astra and Commando D explore the open dimensional rift, and Firebeam extiguishes the wildfires consuming Miami, The Black Shroud , in his human guise of Kuromoko, revels in his successes, as his evil converts more of Earth's paranormals to his side; She-Cat breaks into Dr. Weir's asylum, only to find it overrun with evil dopplegangers-as is The Colorado Project; And Synn is still insistent, she will not leave her room-even when it's a cell at Doc Weir's; Stardust and Ms. Victory bisect the entire globe via The Well of Souls, only to find more villains waiting for them when they emerge on the other side; The Old Dark Gods are at the dimensional gate-can anything stop them? "The School For Yankee Girls," script by Bill Black, pencils by Chris Allen, inks by Mark Heike; Yankee Girl is back, attempting to orient herself to the modern world; Improving herself with some college courses seems like a good idea, until one of her wacky professors turns out to be an old supervillain with a plan to use YG's blood to create a gang of superwomen to do his bidding. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.

  • Issue #109
    Femforce (1985) 109

    Cover pencils by Brad Gorby, inks by Mark Heike. "Darkgods: Rampage" (conclusion), script by Bill Black, pencils by Mark Heike and Eric Coile, inks by Bill Black and Brad Gorby; Paragon's elimination on the moon by the Latimers was just a ruse, as the heroes anticipated it, and Paragon survived; Returning to Earth to rejoin the fray, Synn's ruse of originality worked, fooling her captors into thinking her harmless as she frees She-Cat and all the sleeping Vault Heroes; The tide begins to turn as the heroes battle plan begins to pay off; Nightveil's magic, combined with the Purple Claw, cleanses the Weir asylum, as Dusty and Ms. V. use Rurian technology to construct a star energy amplifier to flush out all branches of the interconnected Well Of Souls; The Shroud finally comes face to face with his Dark Gods, and they transform him into a creature like themselves; As the returning heroes settle old grudges with the human villains that had been the Shroud's captains, The benevolent deity from the Dark God's dimension arrives to punish them, destroy The Black Shroud, undue all the anomalies in the time stream, and put everything back the way it was. 44 pgs. Cover price $4.95.