Hardcase (1993) comic books in grades to VG

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Cover pencils by Steve Wozniak, inks by Lowe. Hard Choices, script by James Hudnall, art by Cranial Implant Studio; A beautiful ultra named Choice is frantic and searches for Hardcase to help her; She is chased all the way to Hardcase's house by a group wearing advanced battle armor; Hardcase and Choice make quick work of the group and try to get answers, but none are really forthcoming; Choice has been programmed by the company she works so that she is unable to always reveal pertinent information but Hardcase decides to help her anyway. 32 pgs., full color. $1.95. NOTE: Originally came polybagged with trading card and may or may not be bagged with card when purchased. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover inks by Rod Ramos. Hard Decisions, script by James Hudnall, pencils by Jim Callahan, inks by Rodney Ramos; Choice is still with Hardcase and that makes the president of the Choice Corporation very nervous; He is counseled by J.D. Hunt and Rex Mundi; Rex Mundi decides to send the Omega Team, a group of mercenaries, to recapture Choice; Meanwhile, Hardcase and Choice are at Hardcase's home speaking with Detective Brown about the events that transpired earlier that day; When the media arrives, Hardcase and Choice leave the house and head to the beach. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover pencils by Rick Hoberg. Strangers In the Night, script by Steve Englehart (plot) and James Hudnall (plot, script), pencils by Roger Robinson, inks by Larry Welch; The Strangers visit Hardcase for advice on how to be an ultra-human and a crime fighter; Hardcase regales the Strangers with his tale of the Squad, his old super-team, and of their unfortunate demise; When telling the story, Hardcase makes a realization that the monster that killed the Squad, NM-E, attacked very soon after the Squad rejected the government agency known as Aladdin; Electrocute informs everyone that she learned where Aladdin's headquarters with her time with J.D. Hunt; Hardcase, Choice and the Strangers go to the headquarters but are stopped by Aladdin agents: Foxfire, Dirt Devil, War Eagle and a mysterious, unknown agent that some of the Strangers recognize. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover pencils by Scott Benefiel, inks by Mike Christian. Friends and Enemies, Part Two: Returning Favors, script by James Hudnall, pencils by Scott Benefiel, inks by Mike Christian and Jordi Ensign; Choice exits a nightclub to find Hardcase gravely injured by lacerations against his chest and stomach; Hardcase is in a state between life and death like a drifting soul and can only witness when Hardwire, the ultra that hurt Hardcase, attacks; Thankfully, Choice summoned her shield ability and was safe against the attack; Choice takes Hardcase's body and brings it to a hospital so they can heal him; Hardcase believes he sees the soul of Starburst and she tells him that it was not his time to die. His regenerative abilities are ultra-human so his condition stabilizes quickly; Meanwhile, Rex Mundi gives the Omega Team and Quattro a mission that will take them to the moon. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover pencils by Scott Benefiel , inks by Mike Christian. Angry Past, Part 1: Agent Snowdon, script by James Hudnall, pencils by Kelly Krantz, inks by Jeff Whiting; Aladdin, the government agency created to keep track of ultras, has bugs set up in the home of Hardcase; Aladdin surveillance agents learn of the Alternate but have no idea who or what it is; Hardcase gets back to living his life by going to ceremony awards and giving interviews on television; Choice and Hardcase begin a romantic relationship and Choice confides in him that she is starting to remember some of her memories, but the memories reveal two distinctly different childhoods: one is from Vietnam and the other is from America; The Alternate told Hardcase and Choice that the answers Choice seeks lays in the headquarters of Aladdin, so they decide to visit the headquarters again; Meanwhile, an agent of Aladdin recruits both Hardwire and Head Knocker to join on a mission to defeat Hardcase and to make certain he does not reach the Aladdin base. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover pencils by Scott Benefiel, inks by Jasen Rodriguez. The Turning Point, script by James Hudnall, pencils by Kelly Krantz, inks by Jeff Whiting; Hardcase and Choice are reeling over the information that Tech of the Solution revealed to them; They learned that Choice was implanted with a section of Starburst's brain, an ultra, to give Choice ultra abilities; Tech is able to use her ultra ability of technopathy to get the top secret files from Aladdin, so Hardcase and Choice read the file in one sitting; The true history of Choice is finally revealed; After learning the information, Choice feels a flood of relief at finally knowing her past and being able to get past it; Just as she's celebrating this new freedom, she is teleported out of there, leaving behind a surprised Hardcase and Tech; Choice finds herself in a placed called Xurina, greeted by two aliens. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover by Steve Carr. Transition, script by James D. Hudnall, pencils by Steve Carr, inks by Dan Schaefer; Hardcase and Tech deal with Choice simply disappearing before them; Tech calls her teammate, Shadowmage, to help find Choice; Using her magic, Shadowmage learns that the person who teleported Choice used magic and came from her very own home planet of Xurina; Meanwhile, Rex Mundi uses powers at his disposal to keep bugs in Hardcase's home, bugs that are neither magical or electronic in nature. Hardcase, Shadowmage and Tech go to Hardcase's home to see if they can find any more clues about Choice's disappearance, but they cannot; Hardcase files a report with the police department and vists his comatose ex-girlfriend, Starburst, in a hospital to tell her everything he has learned lately; While Hardcase is gone, Hardwire waits for him at his house for some revenge. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.

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Cover pencils by Keith Conroy, inks by Larry Welch. Here Today..., script by James D. Hudnall, pencils by Kenn Bivins (pgs. 1-8), Bill Knapp (pgs. 9-16), and Greg Horn, inks by John Lowe (pgs. 1,2), Craig Gilmore (pgs. 3-8), Saleem Crawford (pgs. 9-16), and Matt Osborne (pgs. 17-24); With Hardcase disappearing immediately after defeating NM-E, to the surprise of everyone, Prime tries to assess the situation he's now placed in; The Alternate, also at the scene, tries to figure a way to steal NM-E from under Prime's attention; Shape-shifting into the likeness of Mantra, a superheroine that Prime has an attraction to, The Alternate is able to take NM-E's robotic parts and then disappear with them; Prime tries to give chase, but soon loses her; Rex Mundi, the creator of NM-E, gets frustrated when he sees his arch-nemesis steal his greatest creation stolen; He arrives on Earth to gather his 'bugs', things he created to spy on Hardcase; Meanwhile, the Operator, one of Rex Mundi's associates, is a powerful woman on the West Coast that keeps observation on several operations. 36 pgs., full color. $1.95. Cover price $1.95.