Power Man Vol 1 #18
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Appearing in "Havok on the High Iron!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Steeplejack (Jake Mallard) (Only appearance; dies)[1]
Other Characters:
- Maxwell Plumm
(First appearance)
- Rackham (Only in flashback)
- Mrs. Jenks (Only in flashback)
- Diamondback (Only in flashback)
Flea (Death)
- Reva Connors (grave)
- Cottonmouth (Mentioned)
- NYPD
- Mallard's brothers (Only in flashback)
- Wichita
- "the Professor" and his dog, Falstaff
- Parson
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Havok on the High Iron!"
Luke Cage is visiting the grave of Reva Connors because he feels that everyone he gets close to ends up dying in the end. Claire finds Luke at the grave, and the two decide to stay together no matter what. On their way back into the city, they happen upon a new costumed criminal named Steeplejack who is threatening to throw building mogul Maxwell Plumm from a partially constructed building to his death. Luke saves Plumm from a deadly fall, and in the ensuing battle with Steeplejack, Steeplejack manages to escape.
Luke is told by Plumm that Steeplejack is Jake Mallard, a construction worker whose two brothers fell to their deaths working the girders. Mallard blamed Plumm for the accident and vowed revenge. Plumm hires Power Man to protect the building that he is defending. That night, Luke gets into another battle with Steeplejack, which ends in Steeplejack's death when one of the girders he melted gave way and he fell to his death.
Later that night Luke gets a call from Flea calling for help, Luke finds Flea dying in an alley. Before he dies, Flea tells Luke that he was poisoned by a criminal named Cotton Mouth.
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ First and only known appearance to date besides flashbacks
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- Comics
- 1974
- 1974, April
- Bronze-Age
- Power Man Vol 1
- Len Wein/Editor-in-Chief
- Eli Katz/Cover Artist
- John Romita Sr./Cover Artist
- Len Wein/Writer
- George Tuska/Penciler
- Vincent Joseph Colletta/Inker
- Glynis Oliver-Wein/Colourist
- Jean Simek/Letterer
- Roy Thomas/Editor
- Luke Cage (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Claire Temple (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Noah Burstein (Earth-616)/Appearances
- David Griffith (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Jake Mallard (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Maxwell Plumm (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Albert Rackham (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Mimi Jenks (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Willis Stryker (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Flea (Informant) (Earth-616)/Appearances
- Cornell Stokes (Earth-616)/Mentions
- New York City Police Department (Earth-616)/Appearances
- United States of America/Appearances
- New York (State)/Appearances
- New York City/Appearances
- Kansas (State)/Appearances
- Wichita/Appearances