Spitfire (New Universe)

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (renamed to Spitfire with issue #8 and to Codename: Spitfire with issue #10) was a short-lived comic book series from Marvel Comics' New Universe line. It followed "Spitfire" (Professor Jenny Swensen) and a group of brilliant but eccentric college students as they used high-tech exoskeletons to combat the mysterious terrorist organization called The Club.

Following the series's cancellation, Swensen was redesigned as the armor-skinned paranormal Chrome, and became a regular character in DP7.

A different version of the character - Dr Jennifer Swann - was introduced in 2007 as part of Warren Ellis' newuniversal, a single-title reworking of the New Universe concepts.

Writers

 * Eliot R. Brown - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
 * Gerry Conway - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-6 (October 1986-March 1987)
 * Jack Morelli - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1 (October 1986)
 * Roy Thomas - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5 (February 1987)
 * Cary Bates - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6-10 (March 1987-July 1987)
 * Fabian Nicieza - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987); ; "The Sublet" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]; "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]
 * Len Kaminski - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
 * Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)

Art

 * Herb Trimpe - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #1-2, 5 (October 1986-November 1986, February 1987)
 * Ron Wagner - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #3 (December 1986)
 * Todd McFarlane - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #4 (January 1987)
 * Vincent Giarrano - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #6 (March 1987)
 * Alan Kupperberg - Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #7-9 (April 1987-June 1987)
 * Marshall Rogers - Codename: Spitfire #10 (July 1987)
 * Grant Miehm - Codename: Spitfire #11 (August 1987)
 * Javier Saltares - Codename: Spitfire #12 (September 1987)
 * Dave Hoover - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
 * Sandy Plunkett - Codename: Spitfire #13 (October 1987)
 * Mark Bagley - "Healing Time" in Psi-Force #20 (June 1988) [back-up story]
 * Donald C. Hudson - "The Travest Termination" in Justice #28 (February 1989) [back-up story]

newuniversal - Dr. Jennifer Swan
An alternate version of Jenny Swensen is introduced as Dr. Jennifer Swan in Warren Ellis's re-imagining of New Universe called newuniversal. Dr. Jennifer Swann works for Project Spitfire, continuing her father's work on the H.E.X. (Human Enhancement eXperimental) Initiative, working to create a robotic battle suit. In the wake of the White Event and police reports regarding Kenneth Connell, Jennifer's supervisor Philip L. Voight informs her that H.E.X funding has been increased by a factor of twenty and that the true mandate of Project Spitfire is to monitor and/or kill all superhumans. It is revealed in newuniversal #3 that she was granted the Cipher glyph, becoming the very thing she was tasked to hunt down and kill.

Exiles
An alternate version of Spitfire was rescued (and later recruited) by Quentin Quire; as part of Quire's version of the Exiles, in which the team helped the surviving heroes battled the Annihilation Wave that was led by a banished Hulk.