The Acclaim Comics version of Ninjak is a teenager who gains the combined abilities of multiple ninja warriors by unlocking a puzzle in a video game.

Though not having any superhuman abilities, Ninjak's skills, intelligence, high-tech weaponry, and ninja expertise make him one of the most formidable characters in the Valiant Universe.

The first issue sold close to 1 million copies and was placed number one on Wizard magazine's Top Ten Hottest Comics of the month article in February 1994.

[4] Valiant vice president Jon Hartz cited the comic's wraparound chromium cover as the chief reason for its strong sales.

The relaunched series, Ninjak volume 2, was created by writer Kurt Busiek and artists Neil Vokes and Michael Avon Oeming.

In the Acclaim comic book universe, a teenager named Denny Meechum is endowed with the combined abilities of several ninja warriors by unlocking a puzzle in a video game.

He first acts as antagonist to Aric, a Visigoth warrior who gains power by using an alien made suit of armor called X-O Manowar.

The series revealed that MI-6 has had a secret "ninja programme" since World War I, starting with an agent named Ninja-A (King was not said to be officially designated Ninja-K, with "Ninjak" now being a nickname).

[7] The Weaponeer organization is targeted by the terrorist Dr. Augustus Silkowski, also known as Doctor Silk, and his group Webnet, an illegal international consortium of technical, industrial, and financial institutions.

King considers retiring his Ninjak identity but is convinced by his father's old MI-6 colleague Neville Alcott to work as a freelance agent for British Intelligence.

A great fan of the game is high school student Denny Meechum, a self-conscious, self-described "geek", who has no friends outside of his four sisters and his classmate Town.

Denny has a crush on Tian, a comic book store clerk he regularly encounters, but is terrified to reveal his feelings.

From that point on, when he says the video game catchphrase "I call on the power of Ninjak," he is transformed into an older, athletic, Asian man and gains mastery of martial arts, acrobatics, and a variety of hand-held weaponry.

[8] Defeating his foes causes Denny to have greater confidence in his personal life, which inadvertently inspires Town's girlfriend Shelley to develop a romantic interest in him.

Meanwhile, Denny's activities as Ninjak complicate his life, as he is forced to sometimes ignore his responsibilities at school and lie to his parents and sisters.

The remaining monk, Master Yasuiti, decides a new, young warrior will be needed to fight Akuma, one who is intelligent as well as physically powerful.

Yasuiti says Akuma is somehow making the Dark Dozen real in order to feed his power and bide time until he can free himself from his prison, which is now connected to the video game.

During the battle, it is revealed that Master Yasuiti lied when he claimed Denny was imbued with the skills of many and wasn't "possessed" in any way by a single, living warrior.

The truth is that when Denny becomes Ninjak, he adopts the appearance and abilities of Yasuiti's brother Tatsuo, another warrior monk whose spirit was later connected to the video game.

After Akuma is defeated, the villain's spirit vanishes and the Dark Dozen revert to innocent human hosts, confirming Denny's suspicion.

[10] In the Valiant Entertainment reboot universe, Colin King is the son of two British Intelligence operatives who rarely spend time with him.

A year later, Colin breaks protocol, a decision that indirectly leads to Angelina's death at the hands of Xaman, an assassin and acolyte of the Undead Monk.

After living as a captive and slave for centuries, the Visigoth warrior Aric of Darcia defies his alien captors, a society known as the Vine.

Since the Valiant Entertainment reboot, Ninjak can enhance his body's healing abilities through concentration and will due to his training under the Undead Monk.

Since the Valiant Entertainment reboot, Ninjak also employs nanotechnology, contact lenses that provide information and scanning abilities via a heads-up display (HUD), vocal disguiser/amplifier, a miniature defibrillator, a multi-tool belt, and various other items.

The Acclaim Comics version of Ninjak, Denny Meechum, was an ordinary teenager with above-average skills regarding computers and game design/strategy.

Denny later learned that when he became Ninjak, he was joining with the spirit of a dead warrior-monk named Tatsuo, adopted not only his appearance and abilities but also the combined skills of several other warrior monks.

The series also stars Alex Meglei and Kevin Porter as Archer & Armstrong, Ciera Foster as Livewire, Jason David Frank as Bloodshot, John Morrison as Eternal Warrior, Derek Theler as X-O Manowar, Chantelle Barry as Roku, Tatiana DeKhtyar as Colonel Capshaw, Damion Poitier as Shadowman and Nicola Posener as Agent Vivien.