Story: "Skyfall!" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Mike Collins (plot, script, pencils)
José Marzan Jr. (inks)
Albert DeGuzman (letters)
Gene D'Angelo (colors)
Paul Kupperburg (edits)

Feature Character:

Thunderbolt IV (also in flashbacks to ten years and eight years ago)

Supporting Characters:

Cairo DeFrey
Tabu Singh
Anne-Marie Brogan
Bert Gilchrist
James Flint (Detective Inspector with the Metropolitan police force's meta-crimes unit; first appearance)
High Abbot (in flashbacks to ten and eight years ago)

Villains:

Crimson Dawn
Andreas Havoc (The Hooded One, in flashback to ten years and eight years ago)
Johnny Wheeler (a mobster, first appearance)
Larry Wheeler (his son, first appearance)
Tekk (first appearance)
Evila (last in Thunderbolt #51)

Guest Appearance:

Elongated Man

Other Characters:

Margo (a panicky hostage)
Kaisu (a friend of the monastery, in flashback to ten years ago)
Alf
Billy (museum security guards; both die)

Comments: The flashbacks in this issue take place ten years ago when Havoc was scarred saving the monastery, and eight years ago when Peter was declared the Varja

Synopsis:

Peter saves Cairo DeFrey and an airship full of hostages from eco-terrorists the Crimson Dawn. However, upon landing, they discover that these were ordinary thugs with no environmental agenda - they must have been interested in DeFrey for some other reason. Tabu persuades Peter that this happening was fate, just as it was fate for him to be declared the Varja - Peter should become the Thunderbolt once more. Meanwhile, war seems to be brewing between London's criminal gangs, and something stirs in a museum's Egyptian exhibit...