Manhunter #11
Manhunter (Vol. 2) #11 — titled 'Until the End of the World' — is a penultimate chapter in one of DC's short-lived post-Zero Hour experimental series, featuring musician Chase Lawler grappling with the moral cost of surrendering the Wild Huntsman's power in a story that pushed against the era's action-first storytelling norms. The series as a whole represented DC's deliberate effort to plant a wholly original, mythology-rooted Manhunter into continuity after the Zero Hour event reshuffled the publisher's line, making issue #11 the near-conclusion of that experiment. While Chase Lawler's tenure was ultimately retconned away in the later Kate Spencer Manhunter series — his 'Wild Huntsman' origin declared a hallucination caused by government nanites — the original run, including this issue, documents a genuine mid-90s attempt to build a new legacy hero untethered from the previous Manhunter tradition. It stands as a snapshot of DC's Iron Age creative ambitions and their frequent failure to find a lasting audience.
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The series was created by writer Steven Grant and artist Vincent Giarrano as a direct outgrowth of DC's 1994 Zero Hour: Crisis in Time crossover, which was used as a line-wide catalyst for launching new characters and titles. Chase Lawler debuted in the Zero Hour-tied Manhunter #0 (cover-dated October 1994), and the regularly numbered series followed immediately. Issue #11 carried interior inks by Jimmy Palmiotti alongside Giarrano's pencils and cover art, with coloring by Adrienne Roy, lettering by Clem Robins, and editing by Dan Thorsland. The series ran a total of thirteen issues (including the #0), concluding with issue #12 as the true final chapter.
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- Issue #11 is titled 'Until the End of the World' and was written by Steven Grant with pencils by Vincent Giarrano, inks by Jimmy Palmiotti, colors by Adrienne Roy, and letters by Clem Robins.
- It carries a cover date of October 1995 (published August 1995) and is part of Manhunter Vol. 2, an ongoing series that ran from 1994 to 1995.
- The issue features appearances by Chase Lawler (Manhunter), Incarnate, Bloodmoney, Roger Hayden (Psycho-Pirate), Neron, and the Wild Huntsman — placing it within DC's 'Underworld Unleashed' event context.
- Chase Lawler was created by Steven Grant and Vincent Giarrano; his first appearance was in Manhunter Vol. 2 #0 (October 1994), launched as part of DC's Zero Hour 'Zero Month' initiative.
- The series' premise centers on Chase Lawler, a musician in Star City who summoned the Wild Huntsman — a primal Celtic mythological force — to protect his girlfriend, and was then compelled to hunt 'the lonely' as a result.
- Issue #11 is the penultimate issue of the series; the true final issue is #12 ('The World Is a Wonderful Place'), in which Manhunter battles a supercharged Psycho-Pirate.
- The entire Chase Lawler mythology was later retconned in the 2004 Kate Spencer Manhunter series (Vol. 3), where his 'Wild Huntsman' experience was recast as a hallucination induced by nanites injected by government Manhunter Cult operatives.
- Chase Lawler was subsequently killed by former Manhunter Mark Shaw in the Kate Spencer series, as Shaw — having fallen back into his 'Dumas' persona — attempted to eliminate every person who had ever borne the Manhunter identity.
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