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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published November 1994
Cover Price 1.50 USD
Pages 36
Editing Frank Pittarese

Cover Details

Characters Steel
Genre superhero
Pencils Chris Batista
Inks Dennis Janke

22 page story "Bad News"

Characters Steel [John Henry Irons]; Lieutenant Shauna Beryl; Detective Benjamin Carroll; Rosie Kurtz; Crime Lords; E-Street Gang; Crank
Synopsis When Steel comes across the boy of a Crime Lord drug dealer named Crank, he learns from the from the police that there is a serial killer targeting suspected child molesters. The Crime Lords believe that the E-Street Gang is responsible for the death of Crank, so they retaliate. In stopping the firefight, Steel sees ex-Metropolis psychic Rosie Kurtz on television talking about the serial killer. Steel gets her contact information from Lieutenant Beryl, and then goes to her apartment, where she has just been strangled by the serial killer. Then the police arrive and arrest Steel for her murder.
Genre superhero
Script Louise Simonson
Pencils Frank Fosco
Inks Mark Stegbauer
Colors Robbie Busch
Letters Pat Brosseau