This week’s “Comic Book of the Week” is “Agent Liberty Special” #1, which was published by DC in January 1992. This comic was titled “Disgraced” and featured Agent Liberty. This issue’s creative team included Dan Jurgens, writer; Dusty Abell, pencils; Jackson Guice, Steve Mitchell and Mike Machlan, inks; Albert Deguzman, letters; Matt Hollingsworth, colors; Dan Thorsland, assistant editor; and Mike Carlin, editor. Dan Jurgens and Jackson Guice were the cover artists for the issue, which sold for $2 at newsstands.
“Agent Liberty Special” #1 was a 40-page issue that begins with a squad of mercenaries that are breaking into the Pentagon to steal secrets. As luck would have it, Agent Liberty just happened to be in the area testing his jetpack. Unfortunately, while Agent Liberty is taking out the main group of bad guys, a single commando enters from the other side of the building, sneaks inside, blows an office safe and steals what they’ve come after.
Thinking that he’s foiled the bad guys, Agent Liberty leaves right before the police and military security arrive and returns to the secret headquarters of the Sons of Liberty in rural Virginia. When he arrives, he learns that the lone thief got out with two items from the Mideast Affairs Office – a cassette tape with some communications regarding an operation in Iran and an Iranian map. Agent Liberty, whose real name is Ben Lockwood, speeds out of the HQ in his red sports car and vows to get to the bottom of the Pentagon break-in.
Meanwhile, Paul Devlin, a former CIA agent who paid the mercenaries to steal the cassette from the Pentagon, is seen listening to the tape. It contains audio of a conversation in which the president orders that Devlin and Lockwood be abandoned in the desert during a failed hostage rescue mission in Iran. Devlin’s brother was killed in the botched mission, and once Devlin hears the tape, he proceeds to move forward with his revenge plans.
Later, Ben bumps into an old CIA buddy in a bar and the guy tells him how to hook up with the people who hired the mercenaries for the Pentagon break-in. Ben calls Jay Harriman, his boss at the Sons of Liberty, to tell him, and Harriman tells Ben that he’s heard that there’s been a break-in at an Iranian lab. It’s believed that the lab break-in and the Pentagon break-in are connected, but they still don’t know what was taken from the lab.
Ben dons his Agent Liberty suit and heads for a Maryland airfield, while his Sons of Liberty buddies track him with a homing device in his helmet. At the dark airfield, Agent Liberty tangles with the same group of commandos from the Pentagon and eventually comes face to face with his old partner, Paul Devlin. Devlin, not knowing Agent Liberty’s true identity, shoots him three times in the chest, boards a plane and flies away with the “package.”
Liberty’s bulletproof suit prevents him from being killed. The Sons of Liberty show up in a helicopter, and Liberty flies off to catch Devlin’s plane. While in flight, Harriman informs Liberty that a “small, crude nuclear device” was stolen from the Iranian lab.
Liberty catches the plane, manages to get inside and reveals his true identity to Devlin, who’s standing over a suitcase nuke. Devlin tells of how he plans to get revenge on American while Liberty’s bosses are screaming for him to kill Devlin. Devlin tries to shoot Liberty again, but Liberty deflects the round with his energy shield. The bullet ricochets and hits Devlin, who falls out of the plane and lands in a body of water.
Turns out, the plane is on autopilot and headed straight for the White House. Liberty flies it to safety just in the nick of time and the issue ends with a heated conversation about Liberty’s job performance between his two bosses, Harriman and Judge Kramer.
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