Secret Weapons; Caught in the Web of Dr. Silk!, Volume I, No. 16, January 1995

Unpaginated (32 pages, plus covers). Profusely illustrated (with colorful imagery). Includes several advertisements. Secret Weapons is a superhero team in the Valiant Universe. The original team consists of many of Valiant Comics' most popular characters, including the Geomancer Geoff McHenry, Bloodshot, Eternal Warrior, Shadowman, Solar, X-O. Manowar, as well as Livewire and Stronghold. The book's original creator was Joe St. Pierre working as both writer and illustrator. It concluded after 21 issues in 1995. The government has dispatched Amanda McKee - the technopath codenamed Livewire - to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated many potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value to his cause, were hidden away at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada's greatest strengths and learned his deepest weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure. A young girl who can talk to birds. A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow. To others, these are expensive disappointments. But, to Livewire, they are secret weapons.in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rex-O seeks to draw them out, Livewire and her new team of cadets will be forced to put their powers into action.in ways they never could have imagined. In this issue, the Secret Weapons are being slowly killed by the suits that give them powers and there's only one man who can help- Ninjak!; But in order to get his help they'll have to rescue Jillian Alcott from the tangled clutches of Dr. Silk and his Webnet organization; Basil (Colin King's butler), Dr. Armenia, Dr. Himmel, Dr. Silk, Gigo, Jillian Alcott, and Neville Alcott appear. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…