Script:	Kurt Busiek
Pencils:	Mark Bagley
Inks:	Vince Russell
Colors:	Joe Rosas
Letters:	Comicraft Dave Lanphear Oscar Gongora (credited as Oscar)

• Genre:superhero

Universe:Marvel : mainstream

New Warriors

• Namorita

  (cameo)
• Night Thrasher [Dwayne Taylor]

  (cameo)
• Nova [Richard Rider]

  (cameo)
• Speedball [Robbie Baldwin]

  (cameo)

Thunderbolts

• Atlas [Erik Josten]
• Citizen V [Helmut Zemo]
• MACH-1 [Abner Jenkins]
• Meteorite [Karla Sofen]
• Songbird [Melissa Gold]
• Techno [Norbert Ebersol]

The Wrecking Crew

• Bulldozer [Henry Camp]

  (villain)
• Piledriver [Brian Calusky]

  (villain)
• Thunderball [Eliot Franklin]

  (villain)
• Wrecker [Dirk Garthwaite]

  (villain)

• Megan McLaren

  (without a universe)

  (First appearance)
• Dallas Riordan

  (without a universe)

  (First appearance)
• Natasha Romanoff

  (without a universe)

  (cameo)
• Spider-Man [Peter Parker]

  (without a universe)

  (cameo)
• Hallie Takahama

  (without a universe)

  (First appearance)

Rat Pack

Synopsis:

Earth's newest heroic team, the Thunderbolts, bursts on the scene to widespread acclaim ... but all is not as it seems.

Reprints (9)

• in Thunderbolts: First Strikes (Marvel, 1997 series) (July 1997)
• in Marvel Select (Panini France, 1998 series) #2 (avril 1998)
• in Marvel Special (Panini Deutschland, 1997 series) #8 ([Juni] 1999)
• in Thunderbolts: Justice Like Lightning (Marvel, 2001 series) (December 2001)
• in Thunderbolts (Marvel, 2006 series) #150 (January 2011)
• in Colección Extra Superhéroes (Panini España, 2011 series) #3 - Thunderbolts 1: La Justicia, Como el Rayo... (Junio 2011)
• in Thunderbolts Classic (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 ([June] 2011)
• in Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus (Marvel, 2014 series) (2014)
• in Thunderbolts Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) #1

The Thunderbolts first appeared in The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #449 (January 1997).
As revealed in this story, the Thunderbolts are the Masters of Evil: Baron Helmut Zemo disguised as Citizen V; Moonstone as Meteorite; Goliath as Atlas; Beetle as Mach-1; Fixer as Techno; Screaming Mimi as Songbird.