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Hero For Hire #7
Issue(s): Hero For Hire #7
Cover Date: Mar 73
Title: "Jingle bombs!"
Credits:
Steve Englehart - Writer
George Tuska - Penciler
Billy Graham - Inker
Review/plot:
Despite this being a Christmas-themed issue, we are still a long way away from the first appearance of the "Sweet Christmas!" exclamation.
For the Christmas theme, we've got a crazy guy who acquired a nuclear bomb at the end of World War II and is going to use it to blow up the planet. He tests Luke by appearing to him as the "ghosts" of Christmas past...
...present...
...and future...
...but even though Luke passes his "tests" he tries to blow up the world anyway. Cage stops him, in part thanks to some help from a "Santa Claus" that turns out to be a burglar that Cage welcomes in Christmas morning with.
Zany fun, but this issue also has some really nice downtime scenes with Luke and Claire. Really readable, realistic (well, maybe the cop is a little verbose) character interactions.
Noah Burstein also warns Cage that reporter Phil Fox keeps sniffing around.
Quality Rating: C+
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Just thought i'd use this space to note that as far as i'm concerned, "Christmas" is just a thing that happens randomly in the Marvel Universe, thanks to the Marvel Sliding Timescale. I don't try to line up comics by seasons or holidays or anything like that except when there's a direct connection between issues.
References:
- Cage makes another reference to his origin in Hero For Hire #1.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
The villain seems to be almost superhumanly tough; Cage just pounds on him at least twice and he just gets back up again.
This is the annoying thing about Cage's strength- he goes from "barely superhuman" to capable of knocking out bad guys that have gone toe to toe with the Hulk depending on what mood the writer is in.
