Steel Soldier

Steel Soldier is a creation of Unstoppable Comics (UC). It is part of Range 1, and stars the Superhero Steel Soldier as he discovers that he has become bullet proof after being wounded in a big battle. Steel Soldier is a creation of Jacob Adams, and new issues are released every Monday until June. The comics have been met with good reviews, and Steel Soldier is believed to be the forefront of the UC Range; he will be returning in Range 2 as a result.

Issue #1
Mark Wright is a Major in the US Military who is part of an elite squadron known as the Shadows. The Shadows are a group similar to Black-Ops, who are sent on missions around the world to take down threats to the USA. Mark Wright is the team leader, followed by Lieutenant James Bay, Lieutenant Cathy Stuart and Sergeant Ron Gregory. They have been a team for five years, with a strong record of success.

The Shadows are sent to a Mansion in the South of the USA, where a Cult known as the Black Dragons are resting. The leader of the cult, Dominic Crew, is controlling the other members of the Cult by telling them that their commitment to the Black Dragons is stopping their families from going to Hell, and Dominic is leading his Cult in the creation of bombs which will be planted all over the USA.

Mark infiltrates the building by posing as a Pizza Delivery Man, and killing the man who opens the door for him, before the rest of his team storms into the building and attempts to take control. However, Dominic Crew has been expecting this, after - he claims - being told it by a God of almighty power. Dominic has armed two of the youngest members, who are posing as kidnapped children, and when Mark goes to rescue one of them, they shoot him in the stomach. Mark proceeds to kill them both, but he is now injured but does not want to abort the mission.

The rest of the Shadows locate Dominic Crew to a small study room, where he is found holding a detonator. He tells the Shadows that his God has told him that the death of the Shadows will be enough to send him to Heaven, and that it is a short-cut for himself. The Shadows try and convince him not to blow himself up but Dominic is certain that he will do it. Just as Lieutenant Bay goes to shoot him, Dominic activates the detonator, blowing himself up and destroying the Mansion.

Mark was climbing the stares which led to the study as the explosion took place, which meant that he was high enough to have only a small amount of rubble land on him, but far enough to not be killed by the explosion. However, Mark is badly singed, injured and now dying in the rubble.

The military quickly deploy a task-squadron to the Mansion, where they are ordered to look for survivors of the explosion. They find the remains of Lieutenant Stuart and Sergeant Gregory, and so naturally assume the other two must be dead. However, they continue to dig until they find a still alive Mark. They clear the rest of the site to find no remains of Lieutenant Bay, which leads them to assume that Bay must have been incinerated in the blast.

Mark is quickly rushed to a Military Hospital, where he is treated with great importance due to his role in the Shadows. The Hospital are not sure if they can save his life, but out-of-action leader of the Shadows - Colonel Jack Wilson - tells the Hospital of a liquid which was tested in Military Laboratories. The liquid fell in a strange tin from the sky, and when tested on animals it healed their wounds and made them live longed. Wilson demands that the Hospital uses the little remains of the liquid (known as U.F.O 19) on Mark with the hopes that his wounds might heal.

Mark heals miraculously, with his wound disappearing, and his scorched skin returning to normal. He thanks the Doctors for saving his life and a few days later he is discharged so that he can attend the funerals of each member of the Shadows. He goes to each one, but when he is at the last funeral for Lieutenant Bay, a member of the Black Dragons reveals themselves and shoots a round of bullets at Mark, believing that if Mark is killed, he will be able to go to Heaven.

The man is quickly taken down and the crowd at the funeral are shocked because they believe that Mark must be dead. However, Mark is alive, and doesn't even have a wound on his skin, and he doesn't appear to be bleeding either. Wilson tells Mark that he believes that U.F.O 19 may have made Mark bullet proof, and that despite the fact that the Shadows have been destroyed, there is still hope that Mark could end the Black Dragons cult.