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Slingers: The Team I Couldn’t Remember

Posted on | October 27, 2010 | 4 Comments

On Comic Book Noise 219, I mentioned a superhero team in passing but I couldn’t remember the exact name. All I could remember at the time was they were involved with Spider-Man somehow.

The team was called The Slingers. They had their own title in the late 1990s.

According to Wikipedia, the team consisted of Dusk:

Hornet:

Prodigy:

Ricochet:

The members used costumes and names that were used by Spider-Man during the Identity Crisis crossover, which of course has nothing to do with the DC Comics event. Marvel made the “controversial” decision to print four versions of the first issue, each telling a fourth of the story from the point of view of each of the four team members. I put controversial in quotes, because it sounds really cool to me and I can’t understand why anybody would complain about it.

The title only lasted until issue #12 and hasn’t been traded, but the Spider-Man: Identity Crisis storyline has been collected, but good luck finding it for a decent price.

However, if decent pricing isn’t high on your list of requirements…

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4 Responses to “Slingers: The Team I Couldn’t Remember”

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  2. Kyle Charles
    October 28th, 2010 @ 5:23 am

    thanks for that Derek.The only character i know is Prodigy and little at best. He was in Marvel Utlimate Alliance 2 but had an extremely minor role. but once again thanks

  3. VichusSmith
    October 28th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    I remember reading Slingers. I don't even know if I read every issue, but it was cool that Spider-man had spun off his own group of new characters. All I know now is that Prodigy is a drunk. I believe that Ricochet was part of the recent "team" called The Loners.

  4. DerekCoward
    October 31st, 2010 @ 12:01 am

    I remember the team (barely), but I never read any of the issues. I know from Wikipedia, that one of them died and I think one of them appeared in an issue of Runaways.

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