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Super Trooper
Short Summary

Super Trooper
Hawk has two candidates left in his Super Trooper program. After many trials, they are on a mission where candidate Glenn Goddard sacrifices his life to save his fellow recruit Joe De Niro.

Snow Chase!
Snake-Eyes, escaping from Castle Destro, is chased by the Dreadnoks. He successfully gets a message to the Action Force base about Cobra's plan to attack the Eiffel Tower.

Notes of Interest

European Missions is actually a US reprint of an original UK Action Force Monthly stories.
Snow Chase originally appeared in Action Force #5.
Intelligence Profile - Super Trooper
Super Trooper Competition
Mail Call
Super Trooper makes his 1st and only appearance.

Major Players

Super Trooper
Action Force: Hawk, Flint, Lt. Falcon, Super Trooper (Cap. Glenn Goddard) (deceased)
Additional Characters: Cap. Joe De Niro

Snow Chase!
Action Force: Snake-Eyes, Alpine, Dusty,
Dreadnoks: Buzzer, Ripper

Creative Team

Super Trooper
Script: Steve Alan, Art: Stewart Johnson, Letters: Hel, Colours: Stuart Place, Edito: Steve White, Managing Editor: Jenny O'Connor

Snow Chase!
Script: Mike Collins, Pencils: Kev Hopgood, Inks: Dave Harwood, Letters: Halfacre, Colour: Steve White

Long Summary

Super Trooper

Hawk, Flint and Lt. Falcon are reviewing that last remaining candidates for the Super Trooper position on the Action Force team. The two candidates Captain Joe De Niro and Captain Glenn Goddard are old friends competing against each other.

The two candidates are equal in hand to hand combat, De Niro is very mentally tough, Goddard is superb shooter, they both have to successfully complete all the tests that require them to work together, which they are successful at. There final test is an air combat maneuver.

They are sent up in a Skystriker against drone Cobra Rattlers that fire real bullets. After evading and destroying several Rattlers their Skystirker is severely damaged. The angle of the plane is going to cause it to crash into a town. Since Goddard is the pilot, he forces De Niro to eject. And then proceeds to guide the plane past the city where is crashes killing Goddard.

Captain Joe Niro, now an official Super Trooper, confronts Flint about the lost of Goddard. Flint reminds him that a soldier's duty is to do his job and honor his teammates.

Snow Chase!

Snake-Eyes has just escaped from Castle Destro with information on Cobra Commander's grand new plan and its opening act, which is to destroy the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. He is currently skiing down a hill with the Dreadnoks close on his heals.

He is able to out maneuver them and make a get away but not before Ripper is able to shot him. Snake-Eyes, now bleeding pretty badly, makes his way directly to the nearest village and the Dreadnoks are forced to take the long way.

He enters a hotel and gives the hand written message to the hotel desk clerk to send to the Action Force headquarters in London.

The Dreadnoks arrive forcing Snake-Eyes to flee, still bleeding. Snake-Eyes uses some rope to knock the Dreadnoks off their bikes, then destroys one of the bikes and steals the other to make his escape.

At the Action Force base, Dusty and Alpine receive his message and then suit up to go defend the Eiffel Tower.

Summary by Josh Eggebeen

Number 12, May 1989

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