Atari Force, issues four to six.

ATARI FORCE #4.
COVER TITLE. Atari Force Family Reunion?
INSIDE TITLE. Families
COVER DATE. april, 1984
COVER PRICE. 75 ¢
COVER ARTIST. José Luis García López
NUMBER OF PAGES. 24
WRITER. Gerry Conway
PENCILLER. José Luis García López
INKER. Ricardo Villagran
LETTERER. Bob Lappan
COLORIST. Tom Ziuko
EDITOR. Andy Helfer

After losing Blackjack, Dart returns home. She founds his step-brother, Tempest, first and them his fathers. We get to know her real name, Erin Bia. Tempest daydreams about the good-old days.

Meanwhile, Martin Champion stays in the research probe, looking at the monitors and following his probe, sent to the multiverse drive. Morphea is with him and scans his mind. A memory of Lydia Perez, his wife, during pregnancy and how the multiverse energy changed the baby, Tempest.

Morphea feels that Babe is in danger and races to him. She goes to the hangar and takes custody of the big baby.

Pakrat speaks with his brother. There is no jurisdiction in New Earth for the Caspiar planet. So Rident must let his brother go free until he leaves ATARI Force station.

A dinner reunites Dart, his parents, and the Champion members, Martin and Tempest. Things didn’t run smoothly and the dialog is tense, but it all ends in a truce.

Back in the Research Prove, Martin Champion founds the Dark Destroyer.

Well, this time is not really a letter page, but a fun fake-conversation transcribed by managing editor, Tom Condon.

ATARI FORCE #5.
COVER TITLE. Face to face with the Dark Destroyer.
INSIDE TITLE. Dark Dawn
COVER DATE. may, 1984
COVER PRICE. 75 ¢
COVER ARTIST. José Luis García López
NUMBER OF PAGES. 25
WRITER. Gerry Conway
PENCILLER. José Luis García López
INKER. Ricardo Villagran
LETTERER. Bob Lappan
COLORIST. Tom Ziuko
EDITOR. Andy Helfer
SPECIAL THANKS TO: Joe Orlando (the splash page was drawn by him and ink by García López)

Martin Champion convinces his son, Tempest, his assistant Morphea and Dart into a renegade adventure. They go to the relics museum and steal the old ship (Scanner One, a classic name) that served so many times the first Atari Force and twenty three seconds later they rescue Babe. Oh, I forgot, Pakrat is inside the ship, only his brother knowing that. Now our heroes are at last reunited.

Now they are misfits and they run away from Atari Force One in New Earth. The objective is Multiverse drive.

The authorities of Atari speaks with Rident and assigns him the mission of bringing back the Scanner One. Some of them are members of the original Atari Force.

In Scanner One, things go as good as things could be. Pakrat encounters Dart and although he is cornered, Dart is stronger than he and reduces our rodent friend. He is admitted, but when they told him the mission and the high risks he is about to suffer, he faints. I love this character!

Now they are face to face to the Dark Destroyer ship.

Here is the impressive visage of Dark Destroyer. A cool character, don’t you think?

No letter page in this issue.

ATARI FORCE #6.
INSIDE TITLE. A Meeting with Life and Death.
COVER DATE. june, 1984
COVER PRICE. 75 ¢
COVER ARTIST. José Luis García López
NUMBER OF PAGES. 23
WRITER. Gerry Conway
PENCILLER. José Luis García López
INKER. Ricardo Villagran
LETTERER. Bob Lappan
COLORIST. Tom Ziuko
EDITOR. Andy Helfer

Tempest and Dart must do something to look into the Dark Destroyer Ship. Tempest phase-field into a cantina filled with though-guys. He returns as quickly as possible.

Dart is having a potential future's vision in which Tempest is being tortured by the Dark Destroyer. Not a good omen.

Rident is waiting outside. He cannot believe his eyes. His brother is making deals (or so he thinks) with the big guns.

Tempest has a gas that can put to sleep anyone, but he confronts directly the Dark Destroyer. Tempest fights but to no avail.

Meanwhile, Dart and Pakrat fight the forces of Dark Destroyer bravely.

Tempest is unconscious and Dark Destroyer sends him to torture chambers. Dart and Pakrat escape into the vent conducts.
The Dark Destroyer manifest as a mind image that even Morphea can’t resist him. He announces that he’s in possession of Martin’s son and that he wants Champion.

Andy Helfer justifies that a 25 pages comic book couldn’t have a letter page, so last issue didn’t have room for this. The credit of the name of the letter page (Force Feedback) was due to Mark Mazur and Ricardo Rodríguez.

Jo Jacovino (La Grange, KY) states that he love Dart and Blackjack characters, but he is disappointed with the killing of Blackjack (although we know now he is not dead). Reagon Clamon and David Felts are also sad about the dead of the character.

Rickie Fireline (Syracuse, IN) and Ron Fortier (Somersworth, NH) were more pleased because they considered that it would take to a more interesting place.

Wallace Lee Hopkins praises the work of the artist and points the importance of having special abilities to this new Atari Force. He wasn’t sure about Babe, but Helfer defended the character as someone appealing to younger audiences (I loved Babe and Morphea back when I read the book the first time).

Two brothers, Bobby and Billy Jones wrote together a letter telling how much they enjoyed the book. They must be very young, for the kind of expressions they used. It’s nice to see that children read comics back then.

Jameson A. Wood (Newport, ME) was 8 years old when he wrote asking about Dart’s Tattoos and Blackjack camera eye. And if Tempest could teletransport someone with him. This kind of questions were common among the children (How could Batman do this or that, Who is stronger this or that character…)

JohnA. Brasfield III send a dollar for Atari Force #2. Andy Helfer explained that it was impossible to send it and that he must look for it at his local comic book shop.