Comic Title: Outsiders #22
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1987
On Sale Date: May 5, 1987 Newsstand Date May 5, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Shipping Date April 14, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #116

Copyright Date April 14, 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 May 7, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Shipping Date April 14, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Showdown with the Strike Force"
Pages: 20

Feature(s):
Outsiders (Post-Crisis)

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

Feature Character(s)

• Outsiders (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Black Lightning (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Geo-Force (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Halo (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Katana (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Looker (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Metamorpho (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Windfall (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders Special #1)
• Batman (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Batman Annual #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sapphire Mason (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Justice League Europe #5)
• Simon Stagg (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Justice League Europe #5)
• Helga Jace (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Outsiders #25)

Villain(s)

• Kobra (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)
• Eve (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Strike Force Kobra (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Clayface (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Secret Origins #44)
• Planet-Master (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Zebra-Man (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Elemental Woman (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Spectrumonster (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Java (last appearance in Outsiders #21; next appearance in Justice League Europe #5)

Other Character(s)

• Karen Parker (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)
• Julie (last appearance in Outsiders #21; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from the first story of Outsiders #21.

Synopsis:
Batman and the Outsiders rush to Stagg Enterprises which has been taken over by Kobra and his Strike Force. Kobra has initiated an experiment to turn one of his agents, Parker, into a being of light. The Outsiders battle Strike Force, but they must stand down when Kobra threatens Sapphire Mason.

Seeing Sapphire threatened, Java revives Metamorpho who puts up a shield to protect his wife. The Outsiders then resume their battle. The machines that are running Kobra's experiment are damaged in the conflict. Parker becomes Spectrumonster and breaks out of containment.

Kobra and his forces withraw, while the Outsiders follow the creature. Spectrumonster seeks out Parker's infant daughter. The Outsiders protect the girl and destroy the creature. Metamorpho and Sapphire then make plans to adopt the child.