U.N. Force
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The U.N. Force is a fictional team of comic book
superheroes
created in 1993 by Brent Carpenter for Caliber Comics
- under the Gauntlet Comics imprint - featuring an assembly of leading scientists selected from the United Nations
. Composed of twenty-five members from eighteen nations, the purpose of the group is to step in on regional conflicts and other global issues around the world, preventing such situations - including terrorism
and coup d'états
from becoming a "full scale war". Being servants of the United Nations, the U.N. Force is not restricted to the jurisdiction of any one or two countries. The first issue of the comic book (U.N. Force #1) that featured the U.N. Force characters was released on 1 January 1993. The U.N. Force was featured on major news networks, including CNN and HNN.
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
superheroes
Superhero
A superhero is a type of stock character, possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers", dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes — ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas —...
created in 1993 by Brent Carpenter for Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics
Caliber Comics or Caliber Press was an American comic book publisher founded in 1989 by Gary Reed. Featuring primarily creator-owned comics, in the next decade Caliber published over 1300 comics and ranked as one of the America's leading independent publishers...
- under the Gauntlet Comics imprint - featuring an assembly of leading scientists selected from the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
. Composed of twenty-five members from eighteen nations, the purpose of the group is to step in on regional conflicts and other global issues around the world, preventing such situations - including terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
and coup d'états
Coup d'état
A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...
from becoming a "full scale war". Being servants of the United Nations, the U.N. Force is not restricted to the jurisdiction of any one or two countries. The first issue of the comic book (U.N. Force #1) that featured the U.N. Force characters was released on 1 January 1993. The U.N. Force was featured on major news networks, including CNN and HNN.
See also
- United Nations in popular cultureUnited Nations in popular culturePopular culture references to the United Nations have been made in several media, including film, books, video games, and others. In many instances, the United Nations will figure in a storyline...
- Stormwatch (comics)Stormwatch (comics)Stormwatch is a fictional United Nations-sponsored superhero team that originated in the Wildstorm Universe and has since been revived as part of the DC Universe. The original version of Stormwatch first appeared in Stormwatch Stormwatch is a fictional United Nations-sponsored superhero team that...
- Score the GoalsScore the GoalsScore the Goals: Teaming Up to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals is an educational comic book published by the :United Nations on 24 January 2011. The 32-page comic book features ten football players who are all UN Goodwill Ambassadors...
- Classics Illustrated Special The United Nations comic book
External links
- Original U.N. Force comic-book featured on CNN at You Tube