TERRORDYNE

Membership: Various (names unrevealed)

Purpose: Terrorism, extortion

Affiliations: Heater, Stanley Leland, Ultra-Violence

Enemies: Prime (Kevin Green), Prototype (Jimmy Ruiz), Dinsey Studios, Buzzy West

Base of Operations: USA

First Appearance: Prototype#3 (October, 1993)

History:

(Ultraverse II Origins card #42) - Heater was recruited by a Terrordyne subsidiary known as Ultra-Violence.

(Prototype#3) - Armed and skull-masked Terrordyne agents attacked the plane carrying players from the Denver Rangers baseball team headed for the World Series from St. Louis airport. Terrordyne wanted to hold the players ransom, but Prototype intervened. Rangers player Buzzy West helped knock out the criminals. Heater stepped in and took the fight outside. The Rangers and the Terrordyne agents were evacuated from the airplane, which was soon after incinerated by the angered Prototype.

(Prime I#1/2) - Terrordyne agents, armed with a massive truck-mounted cannon, attacked Dinsey Studios because they hated its cartoon characters. Prime easily thwarted their attempt, knocking each one out and passing details on to the police.

Comments: Created by Tom Mason & Len Strazewski (writers), David Ammerman (penciler) and James Pascoe (inker).

Prime I#1/2 (April, 1994 Malibu print date) was (re?)packaged as Wizard Presents Prime I#1/2 (May, 1994 Wizard print date), a promotion from Wizard the comics magazine. And that's Prime [half].

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Terrordyne has no known connections to:

• Terror (Laslo Pevely) – WW2, aided She-Hulk, had skull face, shot flaming vapors @ Mystic Comics#5
• Terror - mercenary and assassin, replaces body parts with those of others, gains their abilities @ St. George#2
• Terror Birds - steeds of the Hauk'ka @ Uncanny X-Men#458
• Terror Birds (Earth-20051) - ravenous Asgardian giant birds @ Fantastic Four Giant-Size Adventures#1/1
  
• Terrordome - mobile assault weapon by Magnum Munitions, piloted by Lawson @ Deathlok II#11
• "Terrorist" - leader of plot to kill American soldiers, defeated by Captain America @ Captain America IV#4 
• Terror Masters - Group of Japanese military officers, scientists and engineers @ Captain America Comics#42/1 
• Terror Priests - Shaolin, battled Fat Cobra, acted as agents of Yu-Ti @ Immortal Iron Fist#8 
• Terror Unlimited - wore gold armor, held World Trade Center hostage @ Spider-Man Unlimited#8
• or any other "Terror-" characters

Buzzy West

Buzzy West was a high-profile, professional, left-handed baseball player dubbed the "Homerun King". A member of the Denver Rangers, he was on board the plane when it was hijacked by Terrordyne agents, who deliberately hit his injured shoulder. He knocked out a Terrordyne agent with a handy baseball bat (somehow not checked-in). He was non-plussed when Prototype asked for his autograph.

--Prototype#3

images: (without ads)
Prototype#3, p2-1 (main image)
Prime I#1/2, p8, pan2 (head shot)
Prototype#3, p14, pan6 (West)

Appearances:
Prototype#3 (October, 1993) - Tom Mason & Len Strazewski (writers), David Ammerman (penciler), James Pascoe (inker), Chris Ulm (editor)
Ultraverse II Origins card #42 (Heater) (1994) - Mike Weiringo (art)
Prime I#1/2 (April, 1994) - by Len Strazewski & Gerard Jones (writers), Norm Breyfogle (artist), Hank Kanalz (editor)

Last updated: 09/24/11.

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