A few months after the events portrayed in the last issue of Kickers, Inc., we find that Scott Templar finally decided to make his move, and tried to recruit Jack Magniconte into the C.I.A. He failed to do so, however, in that Jack decided to dodge the C.I.A. by joining up with the Army - a move he figured would have to save him, what with there being a Draft going on in the wake of the Pitt disaster.

Naturally, this put a dent in the operations of Kickers, Inc., what with Jack being their principal paranormal muscle. However, since folks with weirdo powers were coming out of the woodwork these days, the team would definitely have enough business to go around. In fact, they'd have enough to keep themselves busy - and in the money - while Jack was with the Army.

The Army was more than glad to have him, what with his previous military experience as a reservist, and of course his paranormal powers. The Army spent several months training him in the proper use of his powers, making him much more than a bumbling, super-strong idiot. In fact, their martial arts training made him like unto a living weapon, one they christened the All-American.

He was to serve not just as a leader of the Army's Paranormal Platoon, you see, but as an example of a patriotic American serving his country with pride. Unlike all other paranormals drafted of late, he was given a special, almost comic-book like uniform with which to serve as the Platoon's leader. He filled this role until Major Kathy Blizzard was brought into the program as team leader.

Jack would still be the field commander, though, and was forced by Blizzard to don a 'standard' Army uniform, not that Captain America inspired tripe. Once he did so, Jack and the rest of the Paranormal Platoon were put into action, as the government believed that they had identified the paranormal who created the Pitt, a madman in Africa who demonstrated startling powers on a video tape.

And, of course, claimed responsibility for the Pitt devastation. As such, the Platoon was sent to Angola to wreck the place up and find this guy, though they quickly discovered that the whole deal was a hoax that various racist South Africans perpetrated in order to disguise their use of nuclear weapons against their ethnic neighbors... that's right, they were really unpleasant people.

Jack and company then acted to stop this plot, though it was discovered (after their use) that nuclear weapons worldwide had been somehow rendered inert, and as the engines of war rolled across the earth, the Starchild appeared to end all these armed conflicts once and for all. This was a good thing for Jack and his Platoon, as it covered their escape from Angola as things went truly bad for them.

After he got back home, Jack continued to serve with the Paranormal Platoon for years, on the request of President Voight, though he eventually reverted to his role as the All-American, being a patriotic hero for a country that needed him. He did so up to the point where he was recruited by Nightmask to save the world from a nefarious invasion from a parallel earth!

This invasion, perpetrated by the evil Starblasters, intended to get ahold of the nigh-invincible power of the Star Brand, and woe be anybody that got in their way. Banding together with about a dozen other heroes from his world, Jack fought these aliens on their own ship, which turned out to be the techno-organic entity known as Skeletron - and were ultimately beaten by heroes from the Starblaster's timeline.

They'd mistakenly identified these folks from Jack's world as minions of Skeletron. This battle turned when Skeletron fought with the enigmatic Stranger, however, a fight that ended when Jack's world pulled into Skeletron's timeline, and Skeletron was in turn stranded in the now virtually empty timeline where his world once rested. Their world was then sealed off from the rest of this new (to them) universe.

Jack's fate since then, as well as that of the other Kickers, has yet to be revealed.