In the first appearance by the five super heroes which the world now knows as the Upholders - The World's Greatest Heroes, they thwarted a preliminary invasion by a small, extraterrestrial group of reptilian warriors bent upon conquering our world and utilizing humanity as a food source in their war against a neighboring star system.
The five super heroes now are free to focus upon fulfilling their mission of protecting mankind and genuinely upholding law and order. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to them or the general public, our own government is conducting a secret, black operation project whereupon five violent criminals were selected to undergo a dangerous experiment which would either kill them or endow them with powers and abilities beyond those of ordinary human beings.
What is the X Factor is the fact that the head of this project is a xenophobic fanatic who believes that the three Upholders who are African American are probably extraterrestrial aliens who must be destroyed! He mandates that his augmented soldiers must prove themselves in battle by murdering the Upholders in order to save our country from destruction by these secret aliens. The dilemma facing our heroes is that in order to stop these augmented mercenaries they will have to kill them or be killed themselves. This is their task in order to - Deliver Us From Evil!
About the Author: Robert A. Coplin was born and raised in New York City. He grew up in Harlem and his affinity for drawing compelled him to attended the High School of Art & Design, where he studied Illustration and Cartooning. During his High School years, he developed two great loves, comic book illustration and the martial arts. Due in part to Bruce Lee's portrayal of Kato in the old Green Hornet television show, he was inspired to study Shotokan Karate for the next twenty-two years. The serenity that he learned from this training helped nurture a growing passion he had for writing, which he dabbled in for many years. Graduating from Art & Design, he spent a few years working at several odd jobs before beginning a thirty-two-year career at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey.
He moonlighted as the Executive Art Director for a Long Island newspaper, The Community Reporter, where he was the creator and artist of a comic strip called Captain Mentor, an African American super-hero who helped to educate young people. He graduated Cum Laude from Monroe College, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration while working full time and raising a family. Having fulfilled a lifetime dream, he has combined his two great loves of illustration and writing with the completion of his second novel, THE UPHOLDERS: DELIVER US FROM EVIL!.