Breathtaker

    (DC, 1990)
™ DC Comics, ©1990 Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel

Chase Darrow is the Breathtaker in this four-part series by writer/painter Mark Wheatley (Mars) and penciler Marc Hempel (Sandman). Chase is a woman whose love is so pure that any man would die to possess it. The trick is, dying is exactly what happens when Chase does love you. You age as a result, eventually dying happily, but far before your time. For her part, Chase is really a very sweet girl who can’t imagine a worse fate for either her or her lovers. But thanks to the government experiment that made her what she is, she continually feels a need—a need to share her deadly love.

When millionaire Paul Raymond dies due to Chase’s deadly embrace, she finds herself pursued by the world’s first actual superhuman, “The Man.” A crass, self-absorbed blowhard, he is in many ways Chase’s mirror-opposite. And when these two opposites finally meet, the results are explosive!
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  • 1
    #1
    Sep 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel, Kathryn Mayer
    1st Appearance of Breathtaker; 1st Appearance of The Man
    11 copies from $1.75
  • 1/NS
    #1 Newsstand Edition
    Newsstand Edition with cover by Marc Hempel
    Sep 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel, Kathryn Mayer
    1st Appearance of Breathtaker; 1st Appearance of The Man
    No copies available
  • 2
    #2
    Oct 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    9 copies from $1.50
  • 2/NS
    #2 Newsstand Edition
    Newsstand Edition
    Oct 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    No copies available
  • 3
    #3
    Nov 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    Origin of Breathtaker
    7 copies from $1.50
  • 3/NS
    #3 Newsstand Edition
    Newsstand Edition
    Nov 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    Origin of Breathtaker
    No copies available
  • 4
    #4
    Dec 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    6 copies from $1.50
  • 4/NS
    #4 Newsstand Edition
    Newsstand Edition
    Dec 1990
    Cover: $4.95
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    No copies available
  • Bk 1
    Book #1
    Cover: $14.95
    W: Mark Wheatley, Neil Gaiman  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    Reprints Breathtaker #1-4 with new pages; Introduction by Neil Gaiman
    2 copies from $6.00
  • Bk 1-2
    Book #1 - 2nd printing
    Cover: $24.99
    W: Mark Wheatley  ·  A: Marc Hempel
    Reprint by Titan, circa 2015
    No copies available