Name: Hard Co.
Other Names: Hard Company
Classification:
supporting characters
group
Publisher(s): 
First Appearance: Hardware #32 (Oct. 1995): "Swan Song"
Creators: Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Prentis Rollins
Number of Appearances: 9
Enemy of: System, Sabrina Alva, Malleus, Cadaver
Ally: Sanction
Ally: Heroes
Type of Organization/Group: company
Note: company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition
Hard Co. employees and partners included: Curtis Metcalf (company founder and CEO, secretly Hardware), Deacon Stuart (Phreaky Deak), Cheryl Saltz, Ann and Alva Edwin Jr.
Summary of Hardware #32, from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=164&:
The funeral of Edwin Alva makes Curtis reevaluate the position in his life. Curtis is confronted by Alva's children and Governer Winter. Augustus Freeman turns out to be Curtis's lawyer. After some soul-searching Hardware decides to set up Hard Co. -- a company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition.
Number of group members listed below: 9
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Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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[Edwin Alva's son] | |
5 | |||||
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black; Paris Bloods | |
4 | |||||
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[1st app: Hardware #42 (Aug. 1996)] | |
1 | |||||
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[company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition] | |
9 | |||||
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black; The Shadow Cabinet | |
97 | |||||
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Asian [hospitalized due to attack by Autopsy, Post Mortem] |
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4 | |||||
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black | |
7 | |||||
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[1st app: Hardware #2 (Early May 1993)] | |
6 | |||||
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[took Deacon Stuart hostage, then committed suicide] | |
1 |
Hardware
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hard_Company
- http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/h/hardware.htm
