Mattel licensed the toys from Popy, who were experiencing large success in Japan with diecast representations of characters and vehicles from television shows - particularly super robot anime and live-action Sentai.

The Shogun Warriors toyline was made up of over a dozen figures drawn from various series, so in order to promote them Mattel approached Marvel to produce an all-new comic tie-in, impressed by the publisher's success with Godzilla, King of the Monsters.

With no information about the characters' Japanese background, Moench set about crafting a mythos that he hoped would appeal to young readers while still being intelligent, penning a bible for the series.

It has also been speculated that licensing issues were a concern,[5] while a notice in the letters' page of Shogun Warriors also suggested Moench's work on Moon Knight was a factor.

[6] To tie up the potential lose end of a trio of hugely powerful robots of questionable ownership lurking in the Marvel Universe, Moench used a guest slot on Fantastic Four to have Raydeen, Dangard Ace and Combatra (all unnamed and obscured) destroyed and their human operators Richard Carson, Genji Odashu and Ilongo Savage returned to their mundane lives as a stuntman, test pilot and oceanographer, respectively.

Subsequent generations of the Followers of Light would monitor the volcano until it erupted, reviving Maur-Kon and the remaining Myandi, who unleash the monster Rok-Korr on Tokyo.

Carson meets up with his partner and fellow stunt driver Deena at Los Angeles International Airport, who is annoyed at his extended, inexplicable absence; Savage and his fellow researcher and romantic interest Judith attempt to pick up on the delays caused to his colleagues' dolphin research; Odashu meanwhile finds herself at the centre of a diplomatic incident caused by her disappearance.

[14] Ilongo and Dangard Ace come under attack from the alien Starchild, while Genji's court-martial in Japan is disrupted by the appearance of the fearsome Hand of Five[15] which she battles with Combatra.

The base belongs to Doctor Demonicus, who disables the robots and captures Dangard Ace[18] Combatra and Raydeen arrive, and the trio come under attack from Starchild, Cerberus and the Hand of Five.

[22] The trio instead created impromptu bases for the robots near their homes, though this led to Combatra briefly being accidentally discovered and piloted by the 11-year old Enrique Velez until Raydeen and Dangard Ace were able to bring it under control.

Carson and Savage returned to their careers[27] while Odashu would eventually clear her name and was later hired by the Maria Stark Foundation, joining the Avengers' support staff.

[28] Screen Rant would include Shogun Warriors on its list of '10 Best Comic Books Based on Toys' due its "fun story and great action".