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HUMAN DEFENSE CORPS #2
Cover Date: August 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 |
| Lettering | Jack Morelli |
| Colors | Guy Major |
| Assistant editing | Valerie D'Orazio |
| Editing | Dan Raspler |
Feature Character(s):
- Human Defense Corps:
- Sergeant Montgomery Kelly
- Cadet Taylor (first appearance)
- Cadet Morgan
Supporting Character(s):
- Doctor Zaius (first appearance; a scientist from Gorilla City working in the Human Defense Corps biolabs, next in #4)
Villain(s):
- Calcabrina (first appearance; a demon in a giant test tube)
Location(s):
- Area 53 (undersea facility)
- Fort Olympus Orbital Defense Station (nicknamed "Heaven")
Comment(s):
- This story takes place two years after the previous issue.
Synopsis: - Cadets Taylor and Morgan find themselves on the run when their training squad is attacked by a group of Human Defense Corps personnel who have been taken over by Starro probes. They evade capture and hide out in the biolabs of the undersea facility where they were to conduct a war game in. Eventually their squad leader, Montgmery Kelly with a Starro probe on his face tracks them down, but Cadet Taylor attacks him with a paralyzer. It is revealed that this was actually prelude to 'prisoner of war training' - none of the Corps were really under Starro control. For evading capture, Taylor and Morgana are relieved of this training and given a plum posting to an orbital station, but Taylor hates himself for attacking Kelly with an unknown, possibly lethal weapon, breaking the spirit of his vow never to kill a fellow human.