Super Soldiers was a comic book

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 published by the Marvel UK

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 imprint of Marvel Comics

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 in 1993

1993 in comics

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. Part of the shared Marvel Universe

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 setting, it centered around a team of superhuman British

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 soldiers, with some plot aspects drawing on the background of Marvel's successful Captain America

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 character.

Publication history

The series was canceled after eight issues, after the first part of a new storyline, when Marvel UK abruptly ceased publishing new material.

Fictional team history

The Super Soldiers consisted mostly of individuals modified using biotechnology based on the American supersoldier codenamed Nuke. These characters were part of a British supersoldier

Supersoldier

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 program, which had been officially disbanded due to a mission gone wrong, and years later reformed along with other characters such as the rowdy mutant

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 Guvnor, the Savage Land

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 warrior woman Xantia, and the revived (after hibernating

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 since the 1970s) martial artist Dragonfly, to work alongside S.H.I.E.L.D.

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 and the U.S. Agent

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. In the eighth and final issue of the series, the unit found themselves privatised

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 and their contracts sold to the Mercy Corporation as an "autonomous superhero response unit".

The team, or at least Joseph Hauer, are still in operation in the Marvel Universe as Hauer appeared during a briefing alongside Pete Wisdom, Captain Britain

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 and Union Jack

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 on the details of the British Superhuman Registration Act by Contessa Valentina Allegro de Fontaine

Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

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, Alistaire Stuart

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 and Commander Lance Hunter

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 as part of the superhuman Civil War

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.

External links

• Super Soldiers at the Big Comic Book DataBase
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