Brief descriptions of the Adventures of the Heroes of Sunset City
1) INTRODUCTIONS: Nightdancer and Fireangel meet in Sunset Park during a kidnapping attempt by Soviet agents, determined to capture Nightdancer and send her back to the Motherland.
2) CANDY FROM BABIES: Direwolf and Wall team up to defeat criminals disguised as police, who aim to steal charity money collected for the Sunset City Orphans' Home.
3) HEROES ASSEMBLE: The heroes meet for the first time to battle Ironclad, who escapes from them after a bank robbery. Madame Pavlova is attacked by soldiers, whose leader turns out to be under mind control. And Professor Waverly's experiments with irradiating spiders runs out of control, releasing giant mutant spiders on Sunset City.
4) HOSTAGES AND MONSTERS: Mastermind holds the Citizens' League hostage as a distraction, stealing the Mark 5 Computational Device from Sunset University while the heroes are rescuing the city's most important men. Animals that had been bitten by Professor Waverly's mutated spiders begin to mutate themselves, into hideous spider hybrids. The heroes are able to defeat them, but have more trouble against a mutated Direwolf, who had been bitten by the spiders himself.
5) FIRE FROM THE SKY: Direwolf begins trying to unite the gangs of Devil's Point. Mastermind arranges the escape of the men captured by the heroes during the hostage crisis, the heroes fail to prevent the escape. Ironclad is captured after luring Direwolf into a fight. Mr Johnson contacts the heroes to request they assist the government in determining why communications have been lost with the USS Enterprise after it retrieved the Hermes 5 space capsule.
6) ZANDAR!: The crew of the Enterprise is unconscious, and the ship is overrun by shapeshifting blobs of protoplasm. The heroes fight their way to the nuclear reactor, where they fight and defeat General Zandar of the Reptar Imperium. The Hermes 5 astronaut, Major Drake, remains missing.
7) THE TRAP: The heroes and the Army arrange a trap for Herr X at Presidium Army Base, and manage to capture him before he can escape with the Super Soldier Formula. Hunting Eagle comes through a dimensional gateway in the Museum of Natural History. Direwolf returns with him to the Pure Lands to fight against Darkwolf, the portal collapses before anyone else can go through.
8) SHADOWS OF THE PAST: The Bolshoi Ballet comes to Sunset City. Lex Luthor is in town as well, establishing LexCorp West. Nightdancer and Spectre foil an assassination attempt on Luthor. Wall is captured by Soviet agents, who try to blackmail Nightdancer into returning to the Soviet Union. The heroes rescue Wall, then foil another assassination attempt on Luthor. Nightdancer meets and defeats the Black Swan.
9) WHERE'S MY LUCY?: Nightdancer is defeated by Chessmaster. Dixie Hill given title of honorary police captain. A mysterious interruption of television signals presages future danger.
10) CHECK!: The heroes foil Chessmaster's plot to destroy the Gateway bridge. Dixie Hill discovers that White Diamond is working with someone inside LexCorp West. Dixie begins upgrades to her T-Bird.
11) THUNDERBIRD: Dixie and Fireangel learn how to use the gateway, and travel through it to an alternate dimension.
12) THE RED STRANGER: The heroes meet Yvreel, a Martian seeking a way to fight back against the Reptar, who have taken over Mars, and conspire to hide the alien from the US government.
13) THE MISSING CHARIOT: Direwolf returns from the Pure Lands. Mastermind attempts to steal Yvreel's space chariot from Presidium Base. Dixie Hill and Yvreel rescue the chariot during the attack. Lord Animus sends animated gargoyles to attack Madame Pavlova. Spectre defeats Lord Animus.
14) SACRIFICE PLAY: Demons freed from Lord Animus' control terrorize the city, culminating in an attempt to turn the championship baseball game between the Sunset City Seals and the Gotham City Angels into a ritual to summon a demon prince.
15) BEAST OF AFRICA: The heroes journey to Africa, where they encounter the Black Beast and fight against White Diamond and Ironclad. White Diamond's powers are removed by the beings of energy in the Cavern of Light. The heroes discover another dimensional gateway in the Cavern.
16) ALONG CAME A SPYDER: The Fourth Reich attacks as the heroes return from Africa. Professor Waverly is transformed into the villainous Professor Spyder.
17) FAIRY TALES: The heroes journey back to the Cavern of Light. While Yvreel communes with the energy beings to seek a new energy source for the Space Chariot, the heroes travel through the gateway, seeking information on Fireangel's parents. They find themselves in Faerie, where Oberon and Titania offer to release their prisoners if the heroes will undertake a small task...
18) HELL OF A TOWN: The heroes travel across the River of Blood from Faerie to Hell, seeking the Fiery Rose. They face dangers and temptations, but emerge triumphant, breaking the Tine to Hell, and freeing Faerie.
19) BATTLES OF FUTURE PAST: The heroes leave Faerie, and find themselves in the future. Earth lies under the tyranny of Ferris Wolfheart, the spirit of Darkwolf in the body of President Farfield, and the constant threat of Reptar attack. Lex Luthor leads the resistance, and offers to aid them in returning to their own time.
20) MAKING IT NEVER HAPPENED: Fighting against the forces of Darkwolf, Professor Spyder, Lord Animus, Ironclad, and Mastermind, the heroes manage to escape back to their own time, while the adult Fireangel of the future sacrifices her own life to defeat Darkwolf.
21) ROCK A BYE BABY: Senator Farfield's infant son is kidnapped, and the heroes track him to the Ultra Security Section of Diomedus Prison, where the supervillain prisoners have escaped and taken over.
22) ENFRANCHISEMENT: The Imperial Dragon plots to take over the minds of all the citizens of Chinatown by casting a spell on the voting booths during the presidential election.
23) A LACK OF VIGILANCE: Vigilance has his powers and memory stolen by Lord Animus. The heroes fight Lord Animus in the heart of Vigilance's sanctum, and Direwolf tricks Lord Animus into absorbing incompatible forms of magical energy.
24) TO THE MOON!: The heroes travel to the far side of the moon, where they rescue Major Drake and destroy the Reptar moonbase. They get a message back to Earth in time for an atomic missile to be launched against the Reptar mothership.
25) VISITORS TO SUNSET: Magda's brother, the King of the Gypsies, comes to town, and scams and con games blanket the city. Meanwhile, a gang war breaks out between Benito Bossini and Tony the Rose.
26) METROPOLIS: The heroes attend an international scientific conference in Metropolis. They hear for the first time of the League of Superior Beings.
27) GET THAT LIZARD!: The League of Superior Beings attempts to rescue General Zandar from military custody.
28) BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE: Fireangle learns some of the history of the Order of the Fiery Rose. The Dark Brotherhood attempts to kidnap her. Failing in that, they kidnap her parents.
29) FIREWORKS: The Dark Brotherhood and the heroes fight during Independence Day celebrations.
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