Hero for Hire #4

(December 1972)

Cry Fear...Cry Phantom! (Table of Contents: 1)

Luke Cage / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Archie Goodwin (credited)

Pencils

Billy Graham (credited)

Inks

Syd Shores

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Three a.m.: outside, the seemingly non-stop circus that is...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Phil Fox (first appearance); Luke Cage (featured); Phantom of 42nd Street (death) (antagonist) (first appearance); Phantom of 42nd Street (antagonist) (first appearance); Adrian Loring (introduction, flashback); Jasper Brunt (villain, introduction, death)

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

A decade-long inter-family feud over business erupts, with one of the antagonists posing as a phantom. A participant's suicidal plunge to the death also brings the other to his doom, exacting revenge in a homicidal leap from a high office in a tall building.

Reprints

• in Helgonet (Semic, 1966 series) #11/1973 ([16 oktober] 1973) [?]
• in L'Inattendu (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #3 (2e trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #8 (Fevereiro 1983) [Do original, falta da história, a página 12 ]
• in Essential Luke Cage, Power Man (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
• in Luke Cage : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) #1972-1973 (novembre 2018)
• in Luke Cage Epic Collection (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 - Retribution (2020)
• in Luke Cage Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)

Indexer Notes

Printed credits give inking credit to Billy Graham. The Shores credit is from the letters page of HERO FOR HIRE #5.

The transformation of the 42nd Street theaters from live playhouses to 2nd-run movie theaters is part of the background of this story, a theme which began when Cage first rented his office above a theater in #2.

Brief one-panel, partial synopsis of Cage's origin.

Dramatic Data, Dynamic Dispatches, and Death-Defying Declarations of Decidedly Dubious Distinction! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Comments to Cage / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Comments to Cage

Reprints

• in Luke Cage Omnibus (Marvel, 2021 series) (2021)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jeff Young, Mark Kionfas, Phil Trent, Matt Graham.