Union Jack (comics)

Union Jack
The third Union Jack (Joey Chapman) appears on the cover of Union Jack #1 (Nov. 2006). Art by Mike Perkins.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	(James) The Invaders #7 (July 1976) (Brian) (as Destroyer) The Invaders #18 (July 1977) (as Union Jack) The Invaders #21 (October 1977)
Created by	(James and Brian) Roy Thomas Frank Robbins
In-story information
Alter ego	-Lord James Falsworth -Brian Falsworth -Joseph Chapman
Team affiliations	(All) Invaders (James) British army Freedom's Five (Brian) V-Battalion
Notable aliases	(Brian) The Mighty Destroyer
Abilities	(James) Superb athlete, expert hand-to-hand combatant, espionage training, skilled in the use of a dagger and a handgun (Brian) Enhanced peak human condition, superb athlete, expert hand-to-hand combatant, ability to project bolts of magical lightning

Union Jack is the name of three fictional superheroes appearing in the Marvel Universe comic books published by Marvel Comics and Marvel UK. Created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins, the first Union Jack first appeared in Invaders #7 (July 1976), a second incarnation from the same creators appeared in The Invaders #21, and a third incarnation was created by Roger Stern and John Byrne for Captain America Vol. 1 #254 (February 1981).

Following The Invaders, Union Jack has been featured as a regular character in ongoing series Knights of Pendragon, New Invaders and Invaders Now, as well two self-titled mini-series.

Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins featured the original Union Jack, James Montgomery Falsworth, as a retired country squire in The Invaders #7-9 (July–October 1976); in the story flashbacks show him in action in World War I as part of Freedom's Five and battling the original Baron Blood, later revealed to be his own brother, while in the present day his brief membership of the Invaders ends when he is invalided saving his daughter, Jacqueline Falsworth, from his vampiric brother. Thomas and Robbins concluded the plot-line in The Invaders #11 (December 1976); in the story his newly empowered daughter takes his place on the team.

Thomas and Robbins continued to feature Lord Falsworth in a number of volumes, including; #12 (January 1977), which sees him watching his daughter head off on her first mission with the team; #14-15 (March–April 1977), which sees him absconding with her and new hero Dyna-Mite and #18-19 (July–August 1977), which sees the three parachuting into Nazi Germany on a mission to restore the latter's memory; flashback reveals that Dyna-Mite is Roger Aubrey, the best friend of Lord Falsworth's son, and that the two had been imprisoned by the Nazis while on a peace mission to Berlin.