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Hardware #43 (Sep. 1996):
“Doorway to Nightmares”
by Joseph Illidge, Prentis Rollins, Caesar Antomattei (as Caesar), Ken Branch, etc.

Hardware #43

Title: “Doorway to Nightmares”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1996

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Joseph Illidge
Art by: Prentis Rollins, Caesar Antomattei (as Caesar), Ken Branch, Phyllis North, Hector Collazo


14 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.
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf)
(lead character)
hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Static Static (Virgil Hawkins) hero
  black; Heroes...  DC Milestone Media 148
Payback Payback (Kevin Franklin) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet
[man-mountain]
DC Milestone Media 30
Starlight Starlight (Stella Maxwell) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 23
Iota Iota (Isadora Wellington-Smythe) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 27
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
Phreaky Deac Phreaky Deac (Deacon Stuart) supporting character
  black DC Milestone Media 7
Tom supporting character villain
  [took Deacon Stuart hostage, then committed suicide] DC Milestone Media 1
Gaea's Wrath villain group
CBR Scale: D Gaian/fundamentalist
environmentalists/eco-terrorists
[terrorist] DC Milestone Media 1
Heroes Heroes hero group
  [former Shadow Cabinet members, made new super-team] DC Milestone Media 12
Hard Co. Hard Co. supporting character group
  [company of geniuses intent on bettering the human condition] DC Milestone Media 9
Donner Donner (Gerri Brauer)
(cameo)
hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 35
Blitzen Blitzen (Valerie Kameya)
(cameo)
hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 36

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=175&):

Hardware cleans up some eco-terrorists who are attacking Alva Technologies. While he is away, Deacon is taken hostage by an employee of Hard Co. named Tom. Curtis arrives to take control of the situation, but Tom commits suicide. A concerned Curtis begins to investigate, and we see the cameo of Donner in New York. Hardware tracks the incident to Montana, where he stumbles onto a battle scene, and encounters some weird looking creatures. Hardware thinks he is dealing with S.Y.S.T.E.M. The team, Heroes, shows up to help battle the creatures also and mention that they are stopping a similar invasions in New York. And Hardware dives into a warp hole.