Spitfire and the Troubleshooters Vol. 1 1

"Gear up, Troubleshooters--and move out!"

Synopsis
Someone using an advanced armor kills Dr. Karl Swensen while trying to get the design of an updated form of the armor from Swensen. Professor Jenny Swensen, Swensen's daughter, is notified that her father died in a "freak lab accident." During her father's funeral Jenny meets Fritz Krotze, her dad's employer. The next day, while removing her father's personal property from his lab, she discovers a message concerning her father's death and Krotze, however, before she can read it, she is ushered out by security agents working for her father's former boss, her twenty four hours having expired.

After talking to several folks for advice, Jenny decided to break into the Krotze facility to get that message. The Troubleshooters, five genius students attending M.I.T. decided to help her out, without telling her, by distracting the guards long enough for her to get inside undetected. Inside, she discovered them and the M.A.X. (Man Amplified X-periment) Model II suit, which her father had hidden from his employer. He had done so because he'd begun to doubt Krotze's ultimate motives for his technology, and this ultimately cost him his life. Jenny decided to steal the final M.A.X. model and the mobile laboratory it was built with. This laboratory consisted of three mack trucks, the trailers of which housed the work space needed to maintain the M.A.X. suit.

Hiding out in the woods about an hour outside of Boston, Jenny began using the M.A.X. suit to dig a hole in a nearby mountain to hide the three trucks in, when she and the Troubleshooters were tracked down and attacked by a man piloting the other M.A.X.. She trounced the man in the M.A.X. suit, and then warned Krotze off.

After this, Jenny then took off with the Troubleshooters for a new hiding place.

Notes:

 * Continues in Star Brand #2

Creators

 * Plot: Eliot Brown, John Morelli
 * Script: Gerry Conway
 * Pencils: Herb Trimpe
 * Inks: Sinnott & Morgan
 * Letters: Rick Parker
 * Color: George Roussos
 * Editor: Bob Harras
 * Editor-in-Chief: Jim Shooter

Characters
Protagonist(s) Deuteragonist(s) Tritagonist(s) Antagonist(s)
 * Jenny Swensen (First appearance)
 * Troubleshooters (First appearance)
 * Andrew Meadows (First appearance)
 * Eric Chin (First appearance)
 * Timothy Ferris (First appearance)
 * Eduardo Giotti (First appearance)
 * Theresa Roberts (First appearance)
 * Dr. Karl Swensen (First appearance)
 * Fritz Krotze (First appearance)
 * Richard Faylen (First appearance)
 * Mick Johnson (First appearance)

Locations

 * M.I.T.
 * Fort Krotze
 * Dormont

Objects

 * M.A.X. Model I
 * M.A.X. Model II