Earth Force (Marvel Comics)
Earth Force is a fictional superhuman team within the Marvel Comics universe which first appeared in Thor (1st series) #395. The team consists of three humans granted elemental powers by Seth.
Publication history
Earth Force first appeared in Thor #395 (September 1988), and was created by Tom DeFalco (writer) and Ron Frenz (artist).
The team subsequently appears in Thor #396-399 (October 1988-January 1989), #426 (November 1990), Thor Annual #16 (1991) and Thor #456 (December 1992).
One member of the team, Skyhawk, appeared in Civil War: Front Line #11 (April 2007).
Earth Force has an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #2.
Fictional team history
Thor
The death god Seth took three hospitalized people from New York City to his own "dimension of death", Kyle Brock; a policeman who had been hospitalized when he was shot by criminals, Winston Manchester; a businessman working who had been hospitalized from overwork, and Pamela Shaw; a suburban housewife who had been hospitalized when she had attempted suicide after her baby had died and her husband had left her. While there, Seth healed them, and gave them elemental superhuman powers, calling them Earth Lord, Skyhawk and Wind Warrior.