Hardware #42
Title: “A Dead Man Tells His Tale”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Aug. 1996
Publisher:
7 characters in this story:
| Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.) |
Religious Affiliation |
Team(s) [Notes] |
Pub. | # app. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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black; The Shadow Cabinet | |
97 | |||||
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[corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] | |
25 | |||||
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black [taught African-American Studies; Hardware's girlfriend] |
|
29 | |||||
|
[brillian chemical engineer] | |
1 | |||||
|
[1st app: Hardware #42 (Aug. 1996)] | |
1 | |||||
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Asian [hospitalized due to attack by Autopsy, Post Mortem] |
|
4 | |||||
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[company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition] | |
9 |
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=174&):
Barraki Young waits at Hard Co. for Curtis Metcalf to come back from a meeting. An indepth look is given to the relationship of Curtis and Barraki. Barraki is becoming frustrated with Curtis as mysterious person walks in wanting to confront Curtis. He turns out to be Cadaver, a former rival of Curtis at Alva Technologies. Curtis rushes back and turns into Hardware. As Hardware and Cadaver fight we learn the origin of Cadaver and his real name Arnold Porter. Hardware eventually defeats Cadaver and goes out on that date with Barraki.
