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| MyS-TECH | |
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| Publisher | Marvel UK |
| First appearance | Warheads #1 (June 1992) |
| Created by | John Freeman Nick Vince Gary Erskine John Beeston |
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| Owner(s) | Algernon Crowe Bronwen Gryffn Ranulph Haldane Eadmund Porlock Brendan Rathcoole Gudrun Tyburn Ormond Wychwood |
| Employee(s) | Warheads |
MyS-TECH (orMys-Tech[a]) is afictionaltechnology company appearing inBritish comic books published byMarvel UK andAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. It is usually depicted as a shadowyFaustian organization. It first appeared inWarheads #1 (June 1992) and was created byJohn Freeman, Nick Vince,Gary Erskine, andJohn Beeston.[3]
The board of MyS-TECH, amultinational corporation, was originally seven mages who in 987 sold their souls to the demonMephisto in exchange forimmortality. The MyS-TECH board members must provide a steady stream of souls to Mephisto to maintain their immortality and contracts with Mephisto. Over the years, the board accumulated power and wealth and in the modern age this power and wealth became a business empire.
The seven mages who became the board of MyS-TECH were:
MyS-TECH operated as a respectable business but hidden beneath one of their front organizations, the Museum of Pagan Antiquities atCanary Wharf inLondon, was a sprawling underground headquarters. These headquarters were used to house the arcane magical technologies the board used to increase their power and keep the supply of souls flowing to Mephisto. Chief amongst these was Un-Earth, amacabremicrocosm of the planet used in a similar fashion to avoodoo doll. The headquarters also housed extensivebiotech labs. It was in one of these labs that the genetically engineered assassin named Julius Mullarkey, also known asKillpower, was created by MyS-TECH scientistOonagh Mullarkey.[4] The headquarters were also the base for theWarheads, MyS-TECH's mercenaries who travel throughwormholes collecting sophisticated technology for their masters.
MyS-TECH featured as villains in many of the titles launched byMarvel UK during their 1990s expansion into theUnited States. The characters featured in these titles includedDark Angel (previously known as Hell's Angel),Death's Head, the partnersMotormouth andKillpower, and theKnights of Pendragon. TheWarheads Kether Troop also later went on to rebel against their masters.
The scarred cyborg Badhand has confronted MyS-TECH forces multiple times. Notably, he has spied on the Warheads, allied himself withNick Fury, and assistedCable with a theft from MyS-Tech's vaults.
MyS-TECH also came up against otherMarvel Comics characters such as theX-Men, although they never appeared outside of the Marvel UK imprint.
In themini-seriesMyS-TECH Wars (1993) byDan Abnett andBryan Hitch, their forces fought most of the Marvel Universe's assembled heroes. In the resulting demonic invasion, many of Earth's heroes (including a majority of theAvengers,Fantastic Four,X-Men,Spider-Man,Ghost Rider, andNick Fury) were killed. However, due to the surviving heroes' efforts, the entire event was erased from history. As such, only a few, such asDoctor Strange,Professor X, andMotormouth, remember what happened.[5]
In a later attempt to destroy all superheroes, the board transform themselves into younger versions. In the same issue, they cause the formation of the Anti-Being, a psychic being that is the result of their centuries of malice.[6] They try to team up in a bid to dominate all reality but lose the being to Death's Head.[7][8]
Finally, they attempt to get out of their contract with Mephisto by sending all of Britain to Hell. The country's heroes fought them back at the Battle of London Bridge (later covered up) and took the Museum of Pagan Antiquities, sending the board to Hell instead and leaving the group seemingly gone for good. S.H.I.E.L.D. stepped in to handle the clean-up,[9] keepingMI-13 out of the loop so they could hoard the technology for themselves.[10]
Years later, various MyS-TECH bases became active again and it was believed the group was returning; it turned out instead to be Killpower leading a second demonic invasion, all an elaborate move by Mephisto to end all his MyS-TECH contracts and return all the energies he had tied up in abandoned bases and weaponry.[2]
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