COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Dazzler 36
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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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0218149004
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Owner:
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bagofleas
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
She's in the sewers. Maybe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will come help her out!
Published: 3/85
Linda Grant Story
John Byrne Cover
Geoff Isherwwod Art
Mike Gustovich Art
Joe Rubinstein Art
Petra Scotese Colourist
Diana Albers Letterer
Mike Carlin Editor
Jim Shooter Editor-In-Chief
I had this signed by Geof Isherwood at the Tampa Bay Comic Con on August 24, 2013! Now it's an OAK!!!
STORY TITLE: The Human Touch
Summary:
The Ace of Clubs is having trouble keeping a regularly nightly singer due to the fact that the costumed criminal Tatterdemalion keeps appearing & warning the women against performing & making them all quit.
When Alison Blaire goes there to apply for the job, her assumed alias is seen right through by the clubs owner Rick Conti. Conti however, is interested in the added business of having a mutant performer. Alison is disgusted at first, telling Conti that she is a musician, not a freak-show.
Conti convinces her to take the job because he is desperate to find a replacement singer, and will hire her if she can wow him with her audition. With Julia Walker, the clubs pianist playing the piano Alison does just that with her amazing vocals and Conti hires her on the spot. When Conti offers her money to buy some new outfits, Alison declines telling him that she has a policy of only accepting money that she has earned.
Leaving the club she notices an old poster advertising Julia as the clubs main singing act, and realizes that Julia Walker was the famous actress of the same name and wonders what happened to her career.
She is picked up by her friend Janet, who she is now living with, and while the two are waiting at a red light, Tatterdemalion secretly pops out of a manhole and uses his acid secreting gloves to compromise the tires of Janet's car. This causes them to burst as they are driving on and they get into an accident.
As Janet goes to get help, Alison is grabbed from behind and knocked out by Tatterdemalion, who takes her down into the sewers where he threatens her not to perform at the Ace of Clubs.
Dazzler flees Tatterdemalion and his burning touch, however the deranged criminal has the advantage over her as he knows the sewers well and she does not. Alison has a big break when she manages to find an exit just as a city worker is coming down to work in the sewers.
Rising out of the manhole, she finds that tow truck drivers have come for Janet's car. Reunited with Janet, Dazzler tells her what happened unaware that Tatterdemalion is watching them from behind bushes.
While out shopping the next day Alison runs into Julia & they go have coffee together. There she tells Alison about how her career ended. She was dating fellow actor Michael Wyatt who wanted to make it big but wasn't popular enough & got rejected from many roles.
Michael later became sour of Hollywood and left for Las Vegas to open a casino. This venture failed, and Julia never heard from Michael again. Before leaving, Michael warned her that Hollywood would chew her up and spit her out.
Not listening to him at the time, Julia had later grown to realize that he was right when her own career ended. After telling her story Julia leaves, and Alison vows to not let anything ruin her career not even Tatterdemalion.
That night, Alison performs at the club to a packed audience and with Julia playing the piano. Tatterdemalion attacks the club, however when he sees Julia -- and recognizes her -- he shamefully flees the scene with Dazzler in pursuit.
Alison easily defeats Tatterdemalion & unmasks him. She recognizes him as Michael Wyatt. She then takes the confused criminal to Julia and the two have a tearful reunion, Alison leaves them to their privacy.
The next day at her apartment, Alison explains her night to Janet and laments over the fact that she was attacked again, Janet tells her to keep her head up and that someday things will get better for the mutant singer.
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
The identity of the villain in this issue was easily predicted before he was actually revealed.
When Tatterdemalion burned through the tires all I could think was, "Now that's what I call Burning Rubber!". Oh, c'mon, it was a little funny.
Alison may want a strictly singing career but these constant attacks are beginning to show that it's just not going to be possible.
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