The Savage Dragon

Overlord sends his monstrous spider-like assassin, Arachnid, to abduct Dragon's police partner Alex and mentor Frank in an attempt to blackmail Dragon to join his force of evil mutants. Dragon also deals with a media smear campaign.

Dragon takes young, good-natured, delinquent mutant called Barbaric on a police ride-along to straighten him out, but mysterious Horde and his mind-controlling leaches possess the cops and turn Barbaric into an unstoppable behemoth.

Alex goes undercover as a costumed "freak" named Red Talon and befriends Overlord's brutish shark-like lieutenant, Mako, in order to infiltrate Overlord's gang, the Vicious Circle, and thwart their plan to poison the city water supply.

Overlord's henchmen Open Face and Octopus steal experimental quantum magnetics technology to create Dragonsmasher, a large robot programmed to destroy Dragon. Dragon also deals with a shady congressional candidate.

Overlord breaks Mako and his gang out of prison to hijack a train that Alex happens to be on and use it to blow up the city's new train tunnel. Dragon is forced to work on the case with his bigoted colleague, Sgt. Niceman.

When Dragon's overly enthusiastic fan and younger female equivalent, the She-Dragon, botches a police sting, the two Dragons must team up to save Alex from Mako's gang and stop Overlord from using a supermicrochip to take over the city.