- 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
- Horacio Domingues (credited)
- Inks
- Juan Castro (credited) (pages 1-11, 15-19, 21, 22); Michael Babinski (credited) (pages 12-14, 20)
- Colors
- Nolan Woodard (credited)
- Letters
- Ed Dukeshire (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This building isn't what it looks like.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Max Damage; Headcase [Annie; formerly Jailbait] (renaming); Senator Jefferson Swain (introduction) (see Notes); The Plutonian (silent cameo flashback); Alana Patel; Icarus [real name unknown] (introduction); Daedalus [real name unknown] (introduction); members of The Diamond Gang; Lt. Louis Armadale; Sgt. Greene
- Synopsis
- In Sky City, Sen. Swain stirs up the Diamond Gang as a pair of his agents, code-named Daedalus and Icarus, pilot the assault vehicle called Retribution towards Max Damage's hometown of Coalville. Max himself tears up Swain's HQ looking for Alana Patel and the new Jailbait, whom he renames Headcase.
- Reprints
Story is untitled beyond series title. Senator Swain's first name is given as Dick in #11 but established as Jefferson in #12.