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HUMAN DEFENSE CORPS #1
Cover Date: July 2003
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Clement Sauvé, Jr. (Signed)
Inks: Juan Vlasco (signed)
Colors: Guy Major
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Credits:
| Story | Ty Templeton |
| Pencils | Clement Sauvé, Jr. |
| Inks | Juan Vlasco |
| Colors | Guy Major |
| Lettering | Jack Morelli |
| Assistant editing | Valerie D'Orazio |
| Editing | Dan Raspler |
Feature Character(s):
- Human Defense Corps
- Specialist First Class Montgomery Kelly (first appearance; also in flashback to a Khund invasion)
- Private Eric Stewart (first appearance; seemingly dies)
- Specialist Colin Mitchell (first appearance; seemingly dies)
- Private David Page (first appearance; seemingly dies)
- Sergeant Chad Solomon Kiyahani (first appearance; grandson of 'Little Sure Shot' of World War II's Easy Company, first name not revealed until #4; seemingly dies)
- Colonel Skynner (first appearance; next in #4, next in issue #5)
- Lieutenant Reno Rosetti (first appearance; next in issue #3)
- Bradley (first appearance; Stewart)
Villain(s):
- Demons
Guest Appearance(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Adventures of Superman #614; next in Action Comics #802)
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman: Metropolis #3; next in Superman: The Kansas Sighting #1)
- President Lex Luthor (last in Adventures of Superman #614; next in Action Comics #802)
Other Character(s):
- Colonel Gehr (of the Bulgravian army)
Comment(s):
- Two weeks elapse between p20 and p21 of this issue. Montgomery Kelly, Reno Rosetti and Lois Lane are the only characters who appear in both sections. The demons, Human Defense Corps personnel and Colonel Gehr appear only on pp1-20, while Olsen and Luthor appear only on p21.
Synopsis: - After giving an interview to Lois Lane, Montgomery Kelly of the newly formed Human Defense Corps finds himself the first man on the ground in the Corps' first mission. They are fighting what appear to be Durlans in Eastern Europe, but soon find themselves under attack from enemies invisible to their night vision goggles, beings which tear through Kelly's colleagues while he basically stands and watches. He is saved when a Bulgravian army man realizes the Corps is facing some kind of vampire and creates bombs of 'holy napalam' which rids the forest of the creatures. As the sole survivor, Kelly finds himself decorated by the president, although he knows it is a meaningless medal as he is no hero.