Spiral Zone is a US-American animated television series. It originally aired in first-run syndication between 21 September–18 December 1987.
Plot[]
In the not too distant future, a brilliant but twisted scientist named Dr. James Bent, uses a hijacked space shuttle to drop his Zone Generators across half of the Earth, producing a region called the Spiral Zone due to the shuttle's helical orbit.
Millions of people are trapped in the ionized mists of the Spiral Zone and were transformed into "Zoners" with lifeless yellow eyes and strange red patches on their skin. Because they have no will to resist, Bent - now known as Overlord - makes them his slave army and controls them from the Chrysler Building in New York City.
His followers are known as The Black Widows: Bandit, Duchess Dire, Razorback, Reaper, Crook and Raw Meat. They are immune to the Zone Effect Radiation because of a special device called the Widow Maker. However, due to the intense exposure to the Zone Effect Radiation that comes with the Widow Maker, they also share the bodily appearance as normal people caught inside the Zone, yellow sclera and lesions on the face and body. The Zone has dark skies and Zone spores growing in many places. Bent seeks to conquer the world by bringing everyone under his control with the Zone Generators.
With major cities zoned, the nations of the world put aside their own differences to fight the Black Widows. However, only five soldiers using special suits to protect themselves from the Zone could do it. While easy to destroy, Zone Generators are impossible to capture because of booby traps. Overlord would drop more generators on remaining military and civilian centers and force the Zone Riders into a standoff.
Note: The above text is from the Wikipedia page on: Spiral Zone