| Department of Occult Armaments | |
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| Department of Occult Armaments | |
| Aliases: | D.O.A. |
| Type: | Supervillain team |
| Status: | Defunct |
| Base of Operations: | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Formation: | HYDRA base |
| Leaders: | Gregory Belial |
| Members: | Innards; Malpractice; Pyre; Rotwrap |
| Allies: | HYDRA; Edgar, the raven |
| Enemies: | Nightstalkers |
| Creators: | D.G. Chichester Ron Garney |
| First appearance: | Nightstalkers #2 |
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The Department of Occult Armaments, aka, the D.O.A. was a superhuman special detachment of HYDRA, specializing in occult-related combat situations. The unit was put together by HYDRA's then-leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and lead by General Gregory Belial. It's members included Innards, Malpractice, Rotwrap and Pyre as well as Belial's personal pet raven, Edgar. The D.O.A. were assigned to procure vampire DNA in order to genetically create a perfect vampire stormtrooper. (NST: 2)
On one mission, the D.O.A. went to the Southeastern United States to disinter the remains of a young woman named Suze Harlow, who was one of many such women to meet an untimely end at the fangs of the vampire lord known as Dracula. Suze's grief-stricken father, Jeb Harlow tried to stop them, but the D.O.A. easily incapacitated him, ultimately killing him before taking off with the woman's remains and bringing them back to HYDRA. (NST: 11)
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- Edgar, the raven was obviously named after author Edgar Allan Poe who wrote the 1845 poem The Raven.
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 This article relates to the Nightstalkers comic book series. |