COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Dazzler 39 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0973427007
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
I'll trade ya' ZAP for ZAP!
Published: 9/85
Archie Goodwin story
Paul Chadwick & Jackson Juice art
Paul Chadwick cover
Petra Scotese Colourist
Jim Novak Letterer
Michael Carlin Editor
Jim Shooter Editor-In-Chief
STORY TITLE: Deathgrip
SUMMARY:
At the International Technology building in Breakenridge Arizona, Rowden Piper, a scientist, has invented a special gauntlet that can kill mutants with a touch. Working late at night he is found by the night watchman who, unaware of Piper's motives, politely walks him out of the building.
In San Diego, O.Z. Chase's vehicle is left unattended and is made a target by car thieves. They soon run afoul of Chase's dog Cerberus, who scares them away. Inside the Theatrical Bookings office, Chase harasses the owner of the company into giving him information on Alison Blaire, whom the man had been booking gigs for recently. After some argument over the morality of bounty hunting, Chase gets the information he wants and leaves.
Elsewhere, Dazzler is on sight of a rock slide that caused a van full of people to fall off the side of the road & vicariously teeter on the edge of a cliff to certain doom. Using a combination of her athletic prowess & mutant powers, Dazzler manages to rescue them.
She is hailed as a hero but once she tells them she is Dazzler, they are at odds about being rescued by a known mutant. She is unaware that Rowden Piper is in the crowd watching.
Piper arrives at his home where his sick daughter is being cared for. Melissa had been abusing drugs for years, but when she went into a catatonic state when seeing Dazzler's outing as a mutant, she could only marvel at the "light" she saw.
Blaming Dazzler for his daughters condition, he dawns a suit of armer which he hopes to use to kill the mutant singer and get his revenge.
O.Z. Chase tracks Dazzler down to a bar called Sweet Sue's where he calls in to the U.S. Bailsbonds for further instruction. He speaks with a different man, who encourages Chase to finish his mission, this man is also curiously crumbling into dust as well.
Chase is knocked out by Piper, who sees the armed bounty hunter as a threat to his mission. Piper then tries to attack Dazzler who defends herself with her mutant powers. Cerberus goes to revive Chase.
As Dazzler and Piper fight it out on the roof of the bar, Piper's house keeper Miss Shaw drives by with Melissa. Upon seeing the familiar lights, Melissa gets out of the car and goes toward them.
As the two fight on the bars gigantic neon lights, Dazzler's powers manage to make Melissa snap out of her stupor. Piper however, is still bent on revenge and continues to try and kill Dazzler with his death-gauntlets even after the fight knocks off his helmet. When Piper refuses to let go of Dazzler, Alison unleashes her full power in order to save herself.
The battle ends in an ironic twist, this time it's Rowden who winds up in a light induced stupor, and his daughter Melissa caring after him as they are being taken away in an ambulance.
Returning to her hotel room, Dazzler is shocked to find O.Z. Chase and Cerberus inside, Chase tells her that there is a bounty on her head and Dazzler agrees to go peaceably in order to sort things out.
Continued in Secret Wars II #4(see below). Then onto Dazzler #40...
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
The story from this issue continues in Secret Wars II #4, which I don't have in CGC format, so here's the basics.
Dazzler is transported by the Beyonder from Chase's car. Beyonder then tries to woo her, turns her into pure energy, she dies, he brings her back to life, then he wipes her memory clean of her death and finally returns her to Earth to live her life normally again.
Those are the basics, anyway. And now on to Dazzler Issue #40!
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