Dragon's Claws Vol 1 3

Dragon's Claws Vol 1 #3 Published September, 1988 Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco Cover Artist Geoff Senior "Heroes' Welcome!" Writer Simon Furman Penciler Geoff Senior Inker Geoff Senior Colourist Steve White Letterer Annie Halfacree Editor Richard Starkings "Tales from a Post-Apocalyptic World!" Writer John Carnell Penciler Andy Lanning Inker Andy Lanning Colourist Steve White Letterer Zed "High Noon Tex" Writer Simon Furman Penciler Bryan Hitch Inker Bryan Hitch Colourist Steve White Letterer Zed Previous Issue Next Issue Dragon's Claws #2 Dragon's Claws #4

Dragon	Tell me. Where'd you learn to make something so corrupt and criminal sound so all round beneficial?
Starick	Oh, I had good teachers---the best, in fact.
Silas Stenson	My god---it is him! It's Starick!.. Control? Stop the broadcast---now!

Appearing in "Heroes' Welcome!"

Featured Characters:

• Dragon's Claws
  • Dragon
  • Mercy
  • Scavenger
  • Steel
  • Digit
  • Lady Killer (First appearance) (Joins team)

Supporting Characters:

• National Union of Retired Sports Experts (N.U.R.S.E.)
  • Silas Stenson (First name revealed in FASTFAX)
  • Deller

Antagonists:

• Split Infinity (Only appearance)
• Vanishing Ladies (Only appearance)
• High Father (Starick) (Only appearance)

Other Characters:

• World Development Council (Mentioned)
• Game (Mentioned)
  • League of Nations (Mentioned)
• Game Players Association (Named in FASTFAX)
• Raymond Golding (Named in FASTFAX)
• French terrorists (Mentioned in FASTFAX) (Unnamed)
• Evil Dead (Mentioned)
• Kurran (First appearance)
• Tiger (Barry) (Corpse) (Real name first revealed) (Last appearance)
• Wildcats (Mentioned)
• Michael Dragon
• Tanya Dragon
• Saul
• Katie (Only appearance)

Races and Species:

• Humans
• Robots
• Cyborgs
• Dogs
• Seagulls
• Tigers (Hide)
• Cows
• Chickens
• Pigs
• Sheep
• Goats
• Lions (Drawing)

Locations:

• Earth-5555
  • Earth
    • Greater Britain
      • England
        • London
          • N.U.R.S.E. Central
        • South Coast
          • Channel City (Only appearance)
        • Morgue (Only appearance)
        • East Anglia (First appearance)
          • Norfolk (First appearance)
            • Norwich (First appearance)
              • Ritinskis' farm (First appearance)
        • Wildcats' lair (Only appearance)
    • Moon, Earth Orbit (Mentioned)

Items:

• FASTFAX (Named in FASTFAX)
• Magnesium flares
• Sonic squeal
• Vanishing Ladies' suits

Vehicles:

• The Pig (Real name first revealed)
• Dragon's Claws' sleds
  
  

Synopsis for "Heroes' Welcome!"

The World Development Council and National Union of Retired Sports Experts (N.U.R.S.E.) dispatch Dragon's Claws to liberate Channel City on the South Coast of England from the mysterious High Father and his army of ex-Game teams who keep the local population hostage. However, Dragon's Claws are surprised to see people hostile to their mission. Overcoming the resistance of several teams, including the Split Infinity and Vanishing Ladies, they enter the city, where the High Father has amassed stolen livestock, and confront him. When the High Father is revealed to be a supposedly dead former N.U.R.S.E. employee Starick, N.U.R.S.E. executive Silas Stenson is so distressed by this news that he orders the public broadcast of the event terminated immediately.

While reprimanding Deller, who was wounded by Slaughterhouse in the 'Pool and had to stay behind, Stenson reveals that it was N.U.R.S.E lobbying the World Development Council to reactivate Dragon's Claws, and not the other way around.

Wildcats' lair

After the fight on Dragon's farm Saul helped Tanya Dragon take her son Michael to her parents' farm. She still tries to come to grips with Dragon's decision to reactivate his team and is not yet ready to reach out to him, despite Saul's advocacy.

The body of Tiger, who was killed by Dragon during his fight with the Wildcats, is visited in the morgue by Tiger's brother Kurran, who embarks on a quest to revenge his brother's death. Kurran learns that it was Deller who hired the Wildcats to hassle Dragon.

Appearing in "Tales from a Post-Apocalyptic World!"

Featured Characters:

• Reverend P. Gunn

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Synopsis for "Tales from a Post-Apocalyptic World!"

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Appearing in "High Noon Tex"

This story is a reprint of the comic
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Featured Characters:

• Death's Head

Antagonists:

• Tex (Only appearance; dies)

Locations:

• Scarvix (Unnamed)
  • Lang Building (First appearance) (Unnamed)
    
    

Synopsis for "High Noon Tex"

This story is a reprint of the comic
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Working as a freelance peacekeeping agent on Scarvix, Death's Head was hired to kill a farmer, destroy his livelihood, and burn all his possessions. His brother, Tex, apparently took it personally. When Tex came looking for Death's Head at his office, the mechanoid had rigged a dummy with a copious amount of explosives. After blowing Tex to kingdom come, Death's Head walked away shaking his head, thinking on how some people had no sense of humor.

Notes

• In preparation to Death's Head's cameo in Dragon's Claws #4 and guest appearance in Dragon's Claws #5, the back cover of the issue featured High Noon Tex, a one-page strip about Death's Head, which had already been used in Transformers (UK) #167 to promote the Dragon's Claws title itself.
• Ritinski as Tanya's maiden name and Norwich as the location of Ritinskis' farm are revealed in Dragon's Claws #6.

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