Hardware #17

Dates

Cover date

July 1994

On sale

May 19, 1994

Pages

36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #17 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct Sales

  Barcode 76194120057601711

  Source ↗
• Newsstand edition

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 07098930701807

  This edition’s page

Story arc: Worlds Collide

This is part 1 of 9. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Hardware (1993) #17
2. Superboy (1994) #6
3. Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #35
4. Icon (1993) #15
5. Blood Syndicate (1993) #16
6. Steel (1994) #6
7. Worlds Collide (1994) #1
8. Superboy (1994) #7
9. Blood Syndicate #17

Creators

Stories

• No Rest for the Weary · 22 pages

  A postal worker named Fred Bentson has a problem: when he falls asleep, he wakes up in another universe. The universe of Superman's Metropolis, in fact. Alva asks Hardware to investigate and Curt ends up tagging along with Fred on one of his inter-dimensional trips. While in Metropolis, Hardware has to deal with some aspiring scavengers/rapists. After cleaning house, Hardware looks in a mirror and sees Steel looking at him from the other side. The mirror shatters, Fred awakes, and Hardware is back home. Alva is overjoyed; another universe to exploit.

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