Plot
It began in 1965. The leader of a vast criminal organization focuses his resources on eliminating the greatest threat to his organization— the costumed super-heroes that oppose it. His efforts, usually involving exploiting the heroes’ selfless desire to save innocent lives (e.g., killers pose as victims to draw heroes into the open), are so successful that by the 80s, his trophy case is full of costumes. Every hero (many of whom had relatively minor powers and abilities) has either been driven into retirement, or killed. Years later, innocents live in fear in a world where criminals act with impunity.
But the heroic spirit is not so easily crushed, and where many have fallen, others rise to take their place. New heroes don old costumes, and old heroes come out of retirement to assume new identities. And when the hero-killer’s son takes over for his father, he finds that he may have to pay for the sins of the past. A grim series, written by Kevin Juaire, drawn by Tom Lyle, and published by Wonder Color Comics.
