The fearful Dreadnoks sped away from Cobra Commander's wrath with Buzzer in the lead. When Buzzer got too careless, a fighter exploded, alerting the Joes and the base that Cobra was coming. Bored and eager for mayhem, the Dreadnoks sneaked inside the base and started to tear apart fighter jets. Zartan and Cobra Commander decided that McGuire was the secret location of Joe headquarters, and ordered the Dreadnoks to cut open the base's perimeter fence under cover of night to prepare for Cobra's assault. Joe team had some involvement with McGuire Air Force Base, he and the Dreadnoks started to watch the base, and moved into a nearby abandoned gas station. Soon after, Zartan rode up to New Jersey with the Dreadnoks in tow. In Marvel comics, When Zartan joined Cobra formally, he brought Buzzer, Ripper, and Torch with him to his hideout in the swamps of the Florida Everglades.

Zartan worked mostly with the same group of Dreadnoks, and almost always worked with three in particular, his first ones - Buzzer, Ripper, and Torch. Zartan's siblings, Zarana and Zandar, joined him later. At some point, the mercenary Zartan began to hire Dreadnoks as brute force and often used them as diversions for his more subtle operations. Terrorizing innocent people and destroying property seemed to be their main goal, along with the occasional felony. The Dreadnoks come from all paths of life be it the army like Zartan, university like Buzzer or reform and correctional institutions like Ripper and Torch, or even from a good middle class background like Thrasher, but they all turned to violence for the sake of violence, fun, money or anarchy. The Dreadnoks began as a violent biker gang that seemed intent on causing destruction and mayhem wherever they went.

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