'Chute into the middle of the Third Reich's hottest acreage and abduct as many brain boys as I can manage. You want me to grab Hitler while I'm at it? 
- — Collins
Team Zero #1 is an issue of the series Team Zero (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2005. It was published on December 7, 2004.
Synopsis for "Team Zero, Part One"
It is December 5th, 1944. An American commando unit lead by a man name Collins, codename: Deathblow, infiltrate Japanese-held Kiska Island in foiling Japan's planned invasion of the west coast of North America in Operation Murgatroid. Deathblow's team is task in destroying the fueling station in Bukhti Point while their leader's true intended target is to capture or kill Admiral Hideo Nobura, the architect of the invasion. However, as Deathblow comes to take the admiral he is startle by Nobura's male lover which Deathblow kills him. This awakens the admiral who proceeds to attack Deathblow and follow by the garrison's guards. The commandos are sighted and are gunned down, but leave one survivor.
Deathblow holds Nobura hostage in front of his armed men. The admiral tells his men to kill him to stop Deathblow, which Deathblow understands what he said to them and retreats as Nobura is then bayoneted to death. At the same moment the surviving commando activates the detonator right before he is killed, causing the fueling station to explode which destroys the entire facility. Deathblow survives the explosion and fights his way out and is then thrown into the arctic sea by a Japanese grenade. His body is recovered by American divers and is brought to a waiting submarine.
Deathblow relates the entire operation to his OSS superiors in a naval hospital in Hawaii, citing that he failed the mission in capturing Nobura. However, he is reassured that Nobura's death is consented and Deathblow is temporarily relieved of his duty. By the end of the week, Deathblow is debriefed on concerning the Soviet's advance into Germany. It is stated that the Russians are procuring delicate scientific documents and German scientists as they advance westward, fearing that the Soviet Union would be technologically advanced ahead of the United States in the postwar. In so Deathblow is assigned with a new unit to capture valuable documents and German scientists, and destroying whatever valuables that can't be procured at Peenemünde before the Soviets arrive. Deathblow agrees to participate in the operation, but decides to personally handpick the men he would chose for the mission in response to the losses at Kiska Island.
That night on Christmas day, Deathblow spends time with a nurse named Joy he befriended during his stay at the hospital. After sleeping together, Joy questions Deathblow of his background. As Joy says his real name Collins (which he is currently alias as Raymond J. Fiore), Deathblow realizes Joy's ruse, who then attempts to inject him with a syringe. Deathblow strangles her to death, but is impaled with the syringe.
The next day, Deathblow is in fine condition as the syringe, containing sodium thiopental (a truth serum) and other additives which would have killed him, wasn't entirely injected into his system. He learns that the nurse was really German-American spy Paula Marie Stollenfus of the Abwehr. Deathblow is given the documents and information on the operation and the soldiers he would choose for his unit.
Appearing in "Team Zero, Part One"
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- Imperial Japanese Marines
- Admiral Hideo Nobura (Single appearance; dies)
- Paula Marie Stollenfus (Single appearance; dies)
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