Team Nippon #1 Aircel Comics, Jun 1989, b&w.
1 Team Nippon #1 cover By Barry Blair.
Mr. Takamura is of the Yakuza and he is collecting money from a shopkeeper named Mr. Lo. Takamura is killed by young thugs of the Tong. They take the old man's protection money. Alex's ghost form scares them. One of them thinks Chow's dust is trash. When Lee appears as Nunchaku, one pulls a gun but Simon rides by and takes the gun away. Knives are pulled by Lee and Simon fight the thugs. Simon kicks and Lee uses his sticks. Alex realizes Thrasher is no scraper. Gen jumps down and cuts the knife that one thug uses at Simon in half, then cuts the man down (but we later learn she just cut his ear off). When Lee is kicked, he gets mad and hits the other thug who shot the Yakuza. They leave him for the cops. In an alley, a big man named Bo with a big stick talks to Sai, a woman with a mask. Both are dressed as superheros and Bo has a white stripe of hair down the middle of his head. They will watch, hidden, and decide whether to be friend or foe. Centerfold of Sai with her dagger. The Tong and the Triads have begun an all out war on the Yakuza. The Yakuza plan to get some doomsday weapon being brought from Japan. The master Yakuza tells his faithful Sumo that the costumed warriors need to die. Alex feels he can't do much besides project a sending and read minds. Alex linked minds with Lee and tells Simon and Gen that Lee has a bad temper and could end up killing someone. Simon shudders at the thought that he thought Gen sliced that thug up but only cut off his ear. Gen tells them that when they formed the team to clean up Chinatown they knew it was not going to be a picnic. Lee shows them a message that was in the dead Yakuza's pocket. It tells he was to pick something up at the docks. Alex invades YakimotońSan's mind and won't allow him to give the briefcase to the crooks there to pick it up. One shoots Yakimoto San in the head and Alex feels it, still linked to the man. Gen, Simon, and Lee reveal themselves to arrest the two men. The men call Da Li, who arrives to "squash these bugs."