Origin

The team known as Danger Girl is actually a top secret spy organization. It was formed by a former MI-6 agent known as Deuce in response to reports that a “Fourth Reich” had been formed and was nearly ready to unleash its forces upon the world. His first recruits were Sydney Savage, Natalia Kassle and Silicon Valerie.

Creation

The team first appeared in Danger Girl #0 in 1997. The team introduced its main characters in the same issue. It was created by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell. Though not exactly in the same genre and as a late entry, the characters represented a form of bad girl art. Although a relatively popular team, they nonetheless experienced the common problems of being an independent title. The team has thus passed from one company to another and presently is operated by IDW.

Team Evolution

The team’s core was originally established as the three characters that were originally introduced plus Abbey Chase, the initial cause and later a key member of the team’s first mission. Others would come to work with the team over time, but the original team was not much modified. As Natalia is eventually revealed as a traitor she is no longer a member of the team. Sonya Savage (Sydney's sister) joins during the events of Revolver.

Major Story Arcs

The first mission of the team in the original Danger Girl series dealt with the recruitment of Abbey to help track down a trio of artifacts. These were to be used by the Hammer organization to renew a Fourth Reich for Germany. The action follows the team from Costa Rica to Paris to Switzerland and finally to Hammer Island. Johnny Barracuda and Secret Agent Zero are introduced along the way, and one of the original team members (Natalia) betrays the team before the group succeeds in stopping the threat.

In Danger Girl: Kamikaze there are now only two field operatives (Sydney and Abbey) and they must stop a group that is hoping to follow in the hammer's footsteps and explode an anti-matter bomb in the USA.

In Danger Girl: Hawaiian Punch a villain by the name of Don Ka Nui attempts to launch missiles against the USA by hypnotizing a US admiral. The team succeed in stopping him.

In Viva Las Danger the team is seeking a jewel that is being controlled by Prince Akoo. It is later revealed though that he had set a trap for the person that was really seeking the jewel for their own power.

In Back in Black the Danger Girl team infiltrates a motorcycle gang in order to retrieve a powerful Native American artifact.

In the series Body Shots a series of nuclear explosions around the globe are used to get the U.S. president to surrender himself to a man named Franco who wants him dead. This action as well as that of the sniper are later revealed to be the action of a general working for the president.

In this miniseries Revolver Abbey is on the trail of missing Peruvian treasure, and Sydney faces the difficult decision to let her sister, Sonya, join the team.