Cole Black Comix / Lonesome Cowboy Comix #1
"Dame" kicks off with a moody, noir-tinged mystery set during WWII, as the nation’s heartthrob singer Lily Pond—daughter of industrialist T. Stanguard—vanishes amid the war's shadow. When her father hires the weary, sharp-eyed detective Cole Black to find her, the case plunges into a web of secrets, all drawn with a gritty, hand-crafted style by creator Rocky Hartberg, who wrote, drew, inked, and lettered the entire issue. The cover by Hartberg captures the era’s tension with a haunting, stylized portrait of Lily, her fate still unknown.
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As WWII rages, all the boys at home have a crush on rising songbird Lily Pond (aka Priscilla Stanguard), daughter of industrialist T. Stanguard of Stanguard Industries. When the singer is kidnapped, Stanguard hires down-on-his-luck detective Cole Black to get her back.
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