Kickers, Inc. was a twelve-issue
comic book series published by
Marvel Comics from
1986 to
1987 as part of the
New Universe imprint. Created by
Tom DeFalco and
Ron Frenz, the series featured a group of former professional
American football players for the fictional New York Smashers team who became a group of heroes for hire, calling themselves "Kickers Inc." They were led by
Jack Magniconte, a Smashers player who gained super-human strength and endurance from a combination of exposure to radiation from the "
White Event" and an experimental muscle-enhancing device.