Comic Title: Outsiders #21
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1987
On Sale Date: April 2, 1987 Newsstand Date April 2, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #38

Shipping Date March 10, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #113

Copyright Date March 10, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date April 2, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Shipping Date March 10, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike W. Barr

Title: "Strike Force Kobra"
Pages: 20

Feature(s):
Outsiders (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mike W. Barr
Artist: Jim Aparo
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman Arkham:Clayface TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Outsiders (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Black Lightning (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Geo-Force (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Halo (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Katana (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Metamorpho (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Looker (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Batman (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Windfall (last appearance in Outsiders #20; next appearance in Outsiders #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sapphire Mason (last appearance in Outsiders #19; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Simon Stagg (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Outsiders #22)

Villain(s)

• Kobra (last appearance in Outsiders Annual #1; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Java (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Outsiders #21)
• Strike Force Kobra (next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Clayface (Shondra Fuller; first appearance; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Zebra-Man (next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Elemental Woman (next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Planet-Master (next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Spectrumonster (Parker; appears as Spectrumonster only in last panel; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Eve (last appearance in Outsiders Annual #1; next appearance in Outsiders #22)

Other Character(s)

• Karen Parker (Parker's daughter; next appearance in Outsiders #22)
• Julie (a babysitter; next appearance in Outsiders #22)

Comments:
This story continues in the first story of Outsiders #22.

Synopsis:
Metamorpho approaches Simon Stagg to help him become human again so that he and Sapphire can have children. Java, who is secretly an agent of Kobra, contacts his master who has his own plans for Stagg Enterprises. He decides to use his new Strike Force against the Outsiders.

The new Clayface visits Looker disguised as her estranged husband. She then drugs Looker and takes her place at an Outsiders meeting. Batman deduces that Looker is a phony. The team defeats her and learns that she is an agent of Kobra.

Kobra sends the rest of Strike Force to Stagg Enterprises. Metamorpho is forzen as part of Stagg's transformation process. Kobra's team interrupts the operation and takes Stagg prisoner.