One of the many forgotten Rankin and Bass projects from the 1980s was SilverHawks, a follow-up to their ThunderCats series about a 29th century group of heroes given metal bodies and wings to fight crime in the Galaxy of Limbo. Sixty-five episodes led to a brief Marvel Comics series and Kenner action figures, all with weapon-bird cyborg animal companions, a hard to find second wave of figures, and prototypes of the Mon*Star with Laser Lance, Copper Kidd with Laser Discs, and the Copper Racer vehicle that were advertised but never made it to stores.
Animated series stars Stargazer, Quicksilver, Bluegrass, Hotwing, Steelwill, Steelheart, and the Copper Kidd are back for your next cyborg fix with original stories in a new monthly comic book series from Dynamite Entertainment. Check out a preview and a look at the variant covers for the first issue of SilverHawks:
In the nearby galaxy of Limbo, the deadly mob boss Mon*Star has escaped from his confinement on Penal Planet 10 — and he’s looking to take revenge on everyone who put him there! At the top of that list is Commander Stargazer, the grizzled space cop who personally took Mon*Star down the last time he went on a rampage. To recapture Mon*Star and his gang of super-criminal associates, Stargazer must put his retirement on hold and assemble a new team of his famed bionically enhanced law enforcers—the SilverHawks! Recruited from every corner of known space by the Federal Interplanetary Force, the SilverHawks were engineered to be the first line of defense against Limbo’s ruthless agents of chaos. But during Mon*Star’s long incarceration, the program went dormant, and its state-of-the-art tech has drifted towards obsolescence.
Ed Brisson is writer on the series with artwork by George Kambadais. Variant covers for the issue were created by Lucio Parrillo, Jae Lee & June Chung, James Stokoe, Geraldo Borges, Declan Shalvey, Lesley Li, Manix, and David Cousens.
For fans of the 1986 animated series, add SilverHawks to your pull list at Elite Comics or your local comic shop. The first issue is in comic shops this week.
C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg
