Psi-Force #1

Trivia · 8 facts

• First appearances: Wayne Tucker (Network), Tyrone Jessup (Voyager), Kathy Ling (Shockwave), Michael Crawley (Dynamite), Anastasia 'Stasi' Inyushin (Healer), Emmett 'Hawk' Proudhawk, Psi-Hawk, Colby Shaw, villain Mindwolf, and the Sanctuary safe house — all debut in this single issue.
• Emmett Proudhawk, the CIA-affiliated Native American paranormal who assembled the team, is killed by the KGB agent Mindwolf within this very first issue — a bold editorial choice that immediately forces the five teens to fend for themselves and summon Psi-Hawk for the first time.
• The issue is titled 'Hour of the Wolf!' and was created by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson, with the script written by Steve Perry and interior art by penciler Mark Texeira and inker Kyle Baker.
• Psi-Force #1 was one of eight titles launched simultaneously as part of Marvel's New Universe imprint in 1986 — a line conceived as 'the world outside your window,' explicitly excluding magic, gods, and alien technology from its shared continuity.
• The series served as an early career platform for writer Fabian Nicieza (who began contributing with issue #9 and remained through the final issue #32) and artist Ron Lim (issues #16–22), both of whom would become major figures at Marvel in the following decade.
• A villain named El Coyote in the 1986 Chuck Norris feature film Firewalker is shown reading Psi-Force #1, an on-screen product placement noted in IMDb's trivia for the film and corroborated by multiple comics reference sources.
• The first nine issues of the series — including this debut — were collected in the Psi-Force Classic Vol. 1 trade paperback published by Marvel in May 2008.
• The series ran for 32 issues and one annual (October 1987), making it one of the four New Universe titles to survive until the line's cancellation in June 1989; the final issues carried a self-deprecating 'limited series' banner on their covers.

Full credits

Variants (1)