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CREATOR

Name: Tokyopop (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in the USA in 1997 by Stuart 'Stu' J. Levy (1967-). Stopped in 2011.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Tokyopop in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation partly focussed on Japanese Manga comic books, and it still has several active, overseas subsidiaries.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2003. Stopped in 2005 after 10 issues*.

9 humans are kidnapped by the evil organisation called Black Ghost and transformed to numbered cyborgs with superhuman powers. But they go up against the organisation in order to regain their freedom. The most prominent of the many characters are the cyborgs: Ivan Whisky (001), Jet Link (002), Françoise Arnoul (003), Albert Heinrich (004), Geronimo (005), Chang Changku (006), Great Britain (007), Pyunma (008), and Joe Shimamura (009).

* The original Japanese series was published from 1964 to 1981 (36 issues).