Detonator (2004 Image) comic books
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Issue #1
$2.50
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On sale 11.17 $2.50 monthly ongoing series full color/48 pages written by MIKE BARON art & cover by MEL RUBI & BARBARA KAALBERG CONCEPT: Frank Grace attended the South Dakota School of Mines, learned to handle explosives and went to work for Grindcorps. Leasing a mine they knew to be played out, Grindcorps took out an enormous insurance policy, doctored Frank's charge so that it brought the mountain down on him, then collected his life insurance. Unfortunately for Grindcorps, Frank emerges weeks later, obtains plastic surgery in Costa Rica and returns to wreak his vengeance. The Detonator can explode anything from a skyscraper to a wine glass with no collateral damage. THIS ISSUE: "Big Bang Theory" Part 1?The Detonator takes out Grindcorps' headquarters. Escaping via paraglider, he lands on a sampan, drawing Lily Ling into his life. Frank then returns to Montana, pursued by Mangelbaum, a deadly assassin and explosives expert, and McGill Green, a suspicious Oakland cop. Cover price $2.50.
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Issue #2
$2.50
$2.50
MIKE BARON art & cover by MEL RUBI & BARBARA KAALBERG CONCEPT: Frank Grace attended the South Dakota School of Mines, learned to handle explosives and went to work for Grindcorps. Leasing a mine they knew to be played out, Grindcorps took out an enormous insurance policy, doctored Frank's charge so that it brought the mountain down on him, then collected his life insurance. Unfortunately for Grindcorps, Frank emerges weeks later, obtains plastic surgery in Costa Rica and returns to wreak his vengeance. The Detonator can explode anything from a skyscraper to a wine glass with no collateral damage. THIS ISSUE: The Detonator blew up Grindcorps' Hong Kong HQ with surgical precision. He thought he got them all. He was wrong. The Twenty Step Vipers sent master assassin Manglebaum to kill Frank. Oakland PD detective McGill Green thinks Frank's a right-wing whack job. Green's sister died in the bombing of a federal building, and Green thinks Frank may have done it. The Twenty Step Vipers are not at peace with themselves. Chafing at Uncle Yang's conservative ways, Roger Yee has sent his own assassin, Sling Blade, to kill both Frank and Manglebaum. The quiet hamlet of Milford, Montana, is about to explode.Brilliant art by Mel Rubi. Hard-hitting dialogue by Mike Baron. Cover price $2.50.
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Issue #3
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DETONATOR #3 On sale 01.12 $2.50 monthly ongoing series full color 48 pages written by MIKE BARON art & cover by MEL RUBI & BARBARA KAALBERG CONCEPT: Frank Grace attended the South Dakota School of Mines, learned to handle explosives and went to work for Grindcorps. Leasing a mine they knew to be played out, Grindcorps took out an enormous insurance policy, doctored Frank's charge so that it brought the mountain down on him, then collected his life insurance. Unfortunately for Grindcorps, Frank emerges weeks later, obtains plastic surgery in Costa Rica and returns to wreak his vengeance. The Detonator can explode anything from a skyscraper to a wine glass with no collateral damage. THIS ISSUE: Manglebaum and Frank square off in the mine, with Lilly's life at stake. As Frank reconstructs the past, he realizes that the mining disaster that turned him into a vigilante was just the beginning. The Twenty Step Vipers have a more ambitious project in mind, one that will claim thousands, if not millions of lives. Cover price $2.95.
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Issue #4
$2.50
$2.50
On sale 02.09 $2.50 monthly ongoing series full color, 48 pages written by MIKE BARON art & cover by MEL RUBI & BARBARA KAALBERG CONCEPT: Frank Grace attended the South Dakota School of Mines, learned to handle explosives and went to work for Grindcorps. Leasing a mine they knew to be played out, Grindcorps took out an enormous insurance policy, doctored Frank's charge so that it brought the mountain down on him, then collected his life insurance. Unfortunately for Grindcorps, Frank emerges weeks later, obtains plastic surgery in Costa Rica and returns to wreak his vengeance. The Detonator can explode anything from a skyscraper to a wine glass with no collateral damage. THIS ISSUE: This is the Big One. Detonator has set in motion forces he cannot control, pitting crime boss against crime boss, with the fate of the world in the balance. The extravagant cruise condo known as the Floating City is actually the world's biggest bomb, and it's headed for the Panama Canal. In Montana, the feds close in on Detonator, as he closes in on Manglebaum. Cover price $2.50.
