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Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (Oct. 1986):
“Beginnings”
by Eliot R. Brown, Jack Morelli (as John Morelli), Gerry Conway, Herb Trimpe, etc.

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1

Title: “Beginnings”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Oct. 1986

Publisher: Marvel New Universe
Written by: Eliot R. Brown, Jack Morelli (as John Morelli), Gerry Conway
Art by: Herb Trimpe, Joe Sinnott, Tom Morgan


19 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Spitfire Spitfire (Jenny Swensen)
(lead character)
hero scientist
  D.P.7; Troubleshooters Marvel New Universe 29
security guards security guards
(details) 
supporting character group real/historical person
  [generic listing] Marvel New Universe 13
The Boston Police Department The Boston Police Department supporting character group real/historical person
  [police department] Marvel 25
Troubleshooters Troubleshooters supporting character group
  [1st app: Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (Oct. 1986)] Marvel New Universe 12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology supporting character group real/historical person
  [college/university] CBS 25
Tim Ferris Tim Ferris supporting character
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Troubleshooters Marvel New Universe 9
Eduardo Giotti Eduardo Giotti supporting character
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Troubleshooters
[had crush on Spitfire (Jenny Swensen)]
Marvel New Universe 10
Terry Roberts Terry Roberts supporting character
  black; Massachusetts Institute of Technology... 
[computer hardware expert]
Marvel New Universe 10
Eric Chin Eric Chin supporting character
  Asian; Massachusetts Institute of Technology...  Marvel New Universe 9
Andy Meadows Andy Meadows supporting character
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Troubleshooters Marvel New Universe 8
Dr. Karl Swensen supporting character scientist
  [invented M.A.X. armor; father of Jenny Swensen (Spitfire)] Marvel New Universe 2
Fritz Krotze Fritz Krotze villain
  The Club
[had his employee (M.A.X. inventor Karl Swensen) killed]
Marvel New Universe 6
Chairman Dibble supporting character
  [Troubleshooters assembled tractor in his office as prank] Marvel New Universe 2
Detective Oliver Sloan supporting character
  [informed Jenny Swensen of her father's death] Marvel New Universe 5
Detective Sidney Jenkins supporting character
  [informed Jenny Swensen of her father's death] Marvel New Universe 5
Sensei supporting character
  [Jenny Swensen's tai-chi sensei] Marvel New Universe 2
Richard Faylen villain scientist
  [committed statuatory rape; forced to do Krotze's dity work] Marvel New Universe 4
Mick Bronson villain
  [working for Fritz Krotze, he killed Jenny Swensen's father] Marvel New Universe 2
Krotze International supporting character villain group
  [research firm Jenny Swensen's father worked for] Marvel New Universe 1