CYCLONE

Real Name: Gregory Stevens

Identity/Class: Human technology user

Occupation: Mercenary / Criminal

Group Membership: Hammer's agents

Affiliations: Afterburner, Beetle (Mach-4; Abner Jenkins), Blacklash, Blizzard (Mickey Quaid), Boomerang, Justin Hammer (employer), Spymaster

Enemies: Angar the Screamer, Impossible Man, Intruders (Fin, Lightbright, Man-Eater, Sandman), Larry Arnold, Latisha, Morris and his gangstas, Ringmaster (Maynard Tiboldt), Silver Sable, Wild Pack (Battlestar, Amy Chen, Crippler, Doug Powell, Raul Quentino)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents#97/4 (1992)

Powers/Abilities: None. He used an aerodynamic armor based on the original Cyclone's technology. It enabled him to fly and enhanced his durability. The armor's gloves made it possible for him to create powerful winds which he used in many different ways.
He formerly used a duplicate of the original Cyclone's costume. With the included technology he could produce powerful winds.

History:
(Marvel Comics Presents#97/4) - An unnamed man hung around at the Bar With No Name wearing the famous Cyclone outfit. A fight broke out between other villains because Ringmaster was seemingly cheating in a poker game. The new Cyclone took the chance to show his fighting skills and attacked Ringmaster. Angar the Screamer used his power to knock all villains out and Cyclone was no exception. He never learned that Impossible Man posing as an Ace of Spades was responsible for the fight.

(Silver Sable#21 (fb) - BTS) - Cyclone got an armor with cool powers from Justin Hammer and a job as one of Hammer's agents.

(Silver Sable#21) - Cyclone was sent out together with some other agents (Afterburner, Beetle, Blacklash, Blizzard, Boomerang, Spymaster) to help Latisha's thugs against Silver Sable and her Wild Pack. Together with his partners he surrounded Sable and her team.

(Silver Sable#22) - Cyclone used his cyclone producing gloves to throw rubble at Sable and her team. Sable's Intruders entered the scene and Cyclone tried his best to stay in the fight. Suddenly Latisha's gang turned against Hammer's agents who were there to help them. Cyclone fought back and stayed quiet when his partner Afterburner tried to get a conversation started. Cyclone retreated with Beetle and the others when Larry Arnold started shooting at them.

(OHotMU 2006#3 - BTS) - Stevens dropped out of sight, reportedly killed in a skiing accident.

Comments: Created by Sholly Fisch, Mark Bagley & Don Hudson.
Recreated by Gregory Wright, Steven Butler & Pam Eklund.

    Other villains present in the Bar With No Name in Marvel Comics Presents#97 were Batroc the Leaper, Blacklash, Electro, the Headmen (Chondu the Mystic, Gorilla Man (Nagan), Ruby Thursday, Shrunken Bones), Hydro-Man, King Cobra, Princess Python, Rocket Racer (Farrell), Shocker, Stilt-Man, Trapster, and Whirlwind.

Are you me or is this mirror just a window?

Is the character from Marvel Comics Presents#97/4 and Silver Sable#21-22 the same guy?

• Problem 1: The Costume is different!
  Not really a problem! Costume changes are a regular thing. Probably he was afraid to get shot (see Cyclone and Cyclone proto-husk) and wanted something more protective. It is also possible that Hammer just gave him the armor because he didn't want Cyclone to use foreign technology or probably he feared problems with the Maggia. I wonder where he got the duplicate from. (I bet the Tinkerer; hopefully not the dead body of the original Cyclone or the Cyclone proto-husk)
  Problem solved!
• Problem 2: The skin color!
  Compared to other guys in the Marvel Comics Presents story it seemed first that Cyclone was black (the hair, the face), or at least of darker complexion. In Silver Sable he looked kind of white, but you couldn't really tell because his face was only half seen. But other characters were wrongly colored too in the past. Screw the color! Just ask Turk Barrett!
  Problem solved!
• Problem 3: Official debut!
  In Silver Sable#21 on the last page it was stated that in the next issue Cyclone and Afterburner would debut (although both appeared in this issue already on the last page). This problem can't really be solved! He surely reinvented Cyclone for the 90s and probably wanted to make a new Cyclone from scrap.
  Problem not solved!
• Right now it looks not good for those guys being the same guy! But there is a sweet precedence (call my lawyer) for this scenario. Just read about it in the comments for the Fox aka. Reynard Slinker who became a HYDRA section chief after the OHOTMU Deluxe Edition pictured Slinker next to the name of possibly another Fox who was only seen in shadows before. From there on the Fox was the Fox! Lets use this case for Cyclone too because the people on the Appendix (including and foremost OHOTMU writer and Appendix creator Snood) said that the Marvel Comics Presents and Silver Sable versions were one and the same guy (That's what I had ASSumed--Snood).
  Case closed!--Well, not really. We're listing them under the same profile for now, but it's an unresolved issue--Snood.