Gangreen

GANGREEN

Membership: Hot Head, Lucky Jim, Morgue, Overdose Suicida

Base of Operations: San Futuro, CA, Earth-Marshal Law

First Appearance: Marshal Law (Epic) #1 (October, 1987)

History: (Marshal Law (Epic) #1) - Doctor Shocc spearheaded the S.H.O.C.C. (Super Hero Operational Command and Control) program, giving superpowers to army recruits dispatched to The Zone. The war was long and bloody, and ended in a stalemate, with the S.H.O.C.C. troops returning home suffering from severe PTSD. A group of vets joined together as a gang named Gangreen and run by Suicida. Suicida had seen and done brutal things in The Zone, and when he was back home he found he couldn’t turn off his homicidal impulses. He received mental treatment, but came to despise doctors for trying to change him and started developing a grudge against the entire world. They made their home in the no-go zone of downtown San Futuro, terrorizing people with their twisted vigilantism. The serial killer Sleepman killed a woman dressed as superhero Celeste by tossing her from a roof, and she landed in the apartment of Sorry the Nearly Man. He tried to dump her body, but was caught by Gangreen, who labeled him a murderer and strung him up from a lampost. Hero hunter Marshal Law saved Sorry, and drove off Gangreen after a short and brutal fight by tossing a car at the. Gangreen railed against Law, calling him cape killer and a traitor to his own kind. Suicida and Gangreen attacked Marshal Law at his secret police station in an underground BART tunnel, but Law and his assistant Kiloton forced them to retreat after a firefight that killed several members of Gangreen. Marshall Law didn’t want to kill them all because if they didn’t run downtown the power vacuum left in their absence would lead to an all-out superhuman gang war.

(Marshal Law (Epic) #2) - Suicida and Gangreen attacked a group of random citizens to assert their authority downtown.

(Marshal Law (Epic) #3) - Marshal Law suspected Public Spirit of being the Sleepman, but Commissioner McGland coerced him into backing off by revealing that Public Spirit was going to donate one million dollars to The Midnight, refuge for the down-and-out and handicapped surplus heroes. He forced Law to shake hands with Spirit at a press event highlighting Spirit’s generosity. Public Spirit ministered to the surplus heroes, and after the event they found Gangreen destroying Spirit’s car. Suicida was shocked when they worked together to drive back the gang. Law promised himself that as soon as the check cleared he’d go back to bringing Spirit down.

Comments: Created by Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neil.

Gangreen was originally published by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics. Their appearance in Marshal Law (Epic) #1-3 was reprinted in Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition.