Mys-Tech
Mys-Tech | |
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Publication information | |
John Beeston | |
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Owner(s) | Algernon Crowe Bronwen Gryffn Ranulph Haldane Eadmund Porlock Brendan Rathcoole Gudrun Tyburn Ormond Wychwood |
Employee(s) | Warheads |
Mys-Tech is a fictional organisation appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They were depicted as a shadowy Faustian organisation who acted as the main villains in a range of initially successful but short-lived comics launched in the US by Marvel UK in the 1990s. Some of these stories also were published in anthology form in the UK in the Marvel UK comic Overkill.
They first appeared in
Fictional origins
The board of Mys-Tech, a
Board members
The seven mages who became the board of Mys-Tech were:
- Algernon Crowe
- Bronwen Gryffn
- Ranulph Haldane
- Eadmund Porlock
- Brendan Rathcoole
- Gudrun Tyburn
- Ormond Wychwood
Headquarters
Mys-Tech operated as a respectable business but hidden beneath one of their front organisations, The Museum of
Enemies
Mys-Tech featured as villains in many of the titles launched by Marvel UK in their 1990s US expansion. The characters featured in these titles included Dark Angel (previously known as Hell's Angel), Death's Head, the partners Motormouth and Killpower, and the Knights of Pendragon. The Warheads Kether Troop also later went on to rebel against their masters.
The scarred cyborg
Mys-Tech also came up against other Marvel Universe characters such as the X-Men, although they never appeared outside of the Marvel UK imprint.
Mys-Tech Wars
In the
In a later attempt to destroy all superheroes, the board transform themselves into younger versions. In the same issue, they cause the formation of a psychic being that is the result of their centuries of malice. It is called the 'Anti-Being'.[4] They try to team up in a bid to dominate all reality but lose the being to the cyborg Death's Head.[5]
Finally, they attempted to get out of their contract with Mephisto by sending all of Britain to Hell. The country's heroes fought them back at the Battle of London Bridge (later covered up) and took the Museum of Pagan Antiquities, sending the board to Hell instead and leaving the group seemingly gone for good. S.H.I.E.L.D. stepped in to handle the clean-up,[6] keeping MI:13 out of the loop so they could hoard the technology for themselves.[7]
Years later, various Mys-Tech bases became active again and it was believed the group was returning; it turned out instead to be a hell-warped Killpower leading a second demonic invasion, all an elaborate move by Mephisto to end all his Mys-Tech contracts and return all the energies he had tied up in abandoned bases and weaponry.[8]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0.
- ^ "Motormouth" #1 (June 1992)
- ^ "Myst-Tech Wars" #1-4 (1993)
- ^ "Dark Angel" #13 (September 1993)
- ^ "Dark Angel" #15-16 (November–December 1993)
- ^ Andy Lanning, Alan Cowsill (w), Rich Elson (a). Revolutionary War: Alpha, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2014). Marvel Comics.
- ^ Andy Lanning, Alan Cowsill (w), Gary Erskine (a). Revolutionary War: Warheads, vol. 1, no. 1 (May 2014). Marvel Comics.
- ^ Andy Lanning, Alan Cowsill (w), Rich Elson (a). Revolutionary War: Omega, vol. 1, no. 1 (May 2014). Marvel Comics.
External links
- Mys-Tech at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Mys-Tech at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Mys-Tech at the International Catalogue of Superheroes
- Mys-Tech at the Marvel Directory
- Mys-Tech Wars at the Grand Comics Database
- Mys-Tech Wars at the Big Comic Book DataBase