Manhunter: The Special Edition

    (DC, 1999)
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Without a doubt, one of the best-loved comic book stories of all-time is the Manhunter serial by writer Archie Goodwin and artist Walt Simonson that ran in Detective Comics #’s 437-443. The story focuses on a big-game hunter named Paul Kirk who became Golden Age-era super-hero Manhunter and—in a nod to Ernest Hemingway—found himself somewhat disenchanted with life after World War II. Because of this, he almost welcomed death when it came to him in the form of a stampeding elephant, but death didn’t last: Kirk was resurrected by a group called the Council and assigned to head their enforcement branch—an army of clones of Kirk himself. When Kirk realized that the Council’s intentions were evil, he began his crusade to bring down the organization, leaving a trail of dead assassins with his face in his wake and inviting the curiosity of both Interpol agent Christine St. Clair and the Batman.

This trade paperback gives Manhunter the star treatment—not only collecting every installment of the series between gold foil covers, but also including an all-new “silent” story by Simonson from a plot he and Goodwin had worked out some time before the writer’s untimely death in 1998.
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Manhunter: The Special Edition #1

June, 1999
Cover Price: $9.95
2 copies available from $4.98 		Gold foil cover by Walt Simonson; Afterwod by Walter Simonson; Collects serial from Detective Comics # 437-443; Foreword by Archie Goodwin; Originally published in Manhunter: The Complete Saga, 1979 Archie Goodwin, Walt SimonsonWalt Simonson