Brass

    (Image, 1996)
™ and ©1996 Aegis Entertainment, Inc.

Written by Aron Wiesenfeld with art by Richard Bennett, Brass is one of the more successful combinations of American super-heroes and Japanese-style mecha comics.

The story itself centers around Herschel Goldstein, a former homeless man who was working his way up from the gutter, starting as a janitor. Things were beginning to work out for him when he found out that the stomach pain he had been feeling for the past few weeks was actually cancer—deadly, inoperable cancer. Thanks to a covert project started three decades earlier, however, he found salvation of sorts courtesy of a techno-organic virus. It saved his life, allowing him to transform himself into “something out of a Japanese sitcom. A twelve-foot walking Buick with big-ass guns coming out the yin-yang.” Goofy as it sounds, Wiesenfeld’s writing makes the whole thing work, and Bennett’s artwork gives a great manga feel to the whole project.
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  • 1
    #1
    Aug 1996
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Aron Wiesenfeld, Richard Bennett  ·  A: Richard Bennett
    1st Appearance of Brass; Origin of Brass
    5 copies from $2.75
  • 2
    #2
    Sep 1996
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    W: Aron Wiesenfeld, Richard Bennett  ·  A: Richard Bennett
    10 copies from $1.75
  • 3
    #3
    May 1997
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Aron Wiesenfeld, Richard Bennett  ·  A: Richard Bennett
    4 copies from $0.95