Desert Stars is a fictional

Fictional character

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 superhero

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 team in the Marvel Comics

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 universe

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. The group of heroes are the official Arizona

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 Fifty State Initiative

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 team and were created by Christos Gage

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 and Stefano Caselli

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.

Fictional history

As the team worked to help civilians during the Secret Invasion

Secret Invasion

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, 3-D Man and the Skrull Kill Krew

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 attack. They reveal Desert Stars' member the Blacksmith to be a Skrull

Skrull

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, and after a fierce battle they kill him. Most of the Desert Stars team is incapacitated during the fight, but Komodo

Komodo (comics)

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 leaves to help 3-D Man and the Skrull Kill Krew find the Skrulls who have infiltrated the other Initiative teams. The team later reappears helping the Heavy Hitters to protect a dam attacked by the superpowered villain Zzzax

Zzzax

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. When Norman Osborn takes over the Initiative, he has to deal with Prodigy leading the Heavy Hitters in separating from the Initiative. He gathers together a strike force to arrest the team, but chooses not to use the Desert Stars since they're friends with the Heavy Hitters. Komodo is later depowered and kicked out of the Initiative for arguing with new Initiative leader Taskmaster for covering up Hardball's crimes.

Heroic Age

Members of the Desert Stars appear at a meeting held by Prodigy

Prodigy (Ritchie Gilmore)

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 regarding magical hammers that have crashed into the earth.

Members

• Two-Gun Kid
  Two-Gun Kid
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   (leader)
• Komodo
  Komodo (comics)
  Komodo is the name of two fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe.-New Men:The first Komodo is one of the New Men, creatures evolved by the High Evolutionary from a lizard. He accompanied the Ani-Men on their clean-up mission at the Jackal's laboratory and fought the Scarlet Spider...
  
  
• Johnny Cool
• Supermax
• Blacksmith (Deceased, revealed to be a Skrull
  Skrull
  The Skrulls are a fictional race of extraterrestrial shapeshifters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics.-Publication history:The Skrulls first appeared in Fantastic Four #2 and were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby....
  
  )

External links

• Desert Stars - marveldatabase.com