- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jeffrey Spokes
- Inks
- Jeffrey Spokes
- Colors
- Jeffrey Spokes (grayscaled)
- Letters
- ? (design); typeset
The inside front cover has a recap of the story so far, credits, and indicia under a mock-up wanted poster listing Max Damage's vital statistics and a head shot of the character from Spokes' variant cover to #1.
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Marcio Takara (credited)
- Inks
- Marcio Takara
- Colors
- Nolan Woodard (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Terrible, Senator. Just terrible.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Max Damage; Sen. Dick Swain [Jefferson Swain] (see Notes); Lt. Louis Armadale; Sgt. Greene; Alana Patel; Headcase; The Plutonian [Dan Hartigan] (flashback); Icarus; Daedalus
- Synopsis
- Max and Alana bond awkwardly on the way to Coalville, while Swain, the true mastermind behind the Diamond Gang and Retribution, lays the blame on Max in a televised interview.
- Reprints
Story is untitled beyond series title. Sen. Swain's first name is given as Dick in this story but established as Jefferson in #12.