Dates
- Cover date
- April 1992
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148601917604
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Creators
Stories
- The Drowning Man · 23 pages
Luke Cage is hired by a Chicago newspaper as their resident superhero with Cage getting to take down bad guys for money and the newspaper getting the story. When Cage goes after a mobster, he ends up fighting Hardcore, a villain with an agenda that includes Cage.
Publisher’s description
Luke Cage takes the stage in his own ongoing series! Cage makes himself the ‘Hero for Hire’ for a Chicago newspaper. Cage busts the crime, while the journalists get a story! A perfect arrangement, until Luke encounters Hardcore, a dangerous mobster with an even more dangerous agenda.
Reprinted in
Luke Cage: Second Chances (2015)