Flashback Friday: Colin King: Becoming Ninjak, the Ninja Spy
Jun 11, 2021
Ninjak is the type of comic book hero with amazing skills and no superpowers. He is incredibly smart and a great tactician, a master of martial arts, skilled with swords and other weapons, proficient with high-tech gadgetry, and he is a computer hacker. The Valiant Comics superhero is a ninja and a spy who has been a top MI-6 field operative.
Introduced as Colin King in Bloodshot #6 (July 1993), he was revealed as Ninjak in the following issue. Colin was created by Mark Moretti and Joe Quesada who introduced him as a wealthy man and son of a spy whose father was killed by a rival agent.
He trained as a ninja for years, took the identity of Ninjak, and started working for Weaponeer, an organization that creates special weapons and provides security. By working for Weaponeer, he continued building his skills, learning how to use high-tech and customized gadgets and weapons.
While he was working with Weaponeer, they were attacked by Doctor Silk and Webnet, a group of powerful figures from industrial, financial, and technical institutions. Webnet destroyed Weaponeer, killing everyone but Ninjak.
He considered retiring as Ninjak until Neville Alcott, one of his father’s MI-6 colleagues, convinced him to work for British Intelligence as a freelancer. Now working with MI-6, Ninjak began his association with Valiant superheroes like Bloodshot, X-O Manowar, Geomancer, and Eternal Warrior.
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Colin King is Ninjak and he has a target on his back like never before. With enemies lurking around every corner, how will Ninjak survive when there's nowhere left to hide and the world is gunning for him?
Hang onto your hats, folks! Jeff Parker and Javier Puildo are about to take you on a non-stop thrill ride.
Colin King - sophisticated British playboy by day, elite super-spy by night! Codenamed Ninjak, King is gifted with a brilliant mind and lethal training in the world's most dangerous fighting techniques. Both will be put to the ultimate test as he is drawn into a globe-spanning mission to bring down a cavalcade of covert agents and criminal cartels, including his greatest nemesis - the Webnet terror network and its villainous mastermind, Dr. Silk! From the British Isles to the land of the
Rising Sun, Ninjak is about to leave an indelible imprint on the Valiant Universe - or die trying.
Collecting NINJAK (1994) #1-26, #0, and #00, NINJAK YEARBOOK 1994 #1, BLOODSHOT
(1993) #5-6, and SECRET WEAPONS (1993) #5, along with 20+ pages of rarely seen art and extras!
Then: Meet inexperienced MI-6 recruit Colin King on his first mission in the field as he learns the basics of spycraft and counterintelligence, and develops a volatile relationship with his first handler.
Now: Colin King is Ninjak, the world's foremost intelligence operative, weapons expert, and master
assassin. And he's hunting the Shadow Seven - a secret cabal of shinobi masters with mysterious ties to his training and tragic past.
Collecting NINJAK #1-13, this deluxe hardcover comes packed with more than 20 pages of rarely
seen art and extras!
This article originally appeared in Gemstone Publishing’s e-newsletter Scoop.
