Comic Browser: #1 - I Slay By The Stars #2 - The Search For The Silver Surfer #3 - Four Against The Gods #4 - The New Defender: Valkyrie Rides Again! #5 - World Without End? (Cry: Yandroth!) #6 - The Dreams Of Death #7 - War Beneath The Waves #8 - ... If Atlantis Should Fall! #9 - Divide And Conquer #10 - Breakthrough: The Incredible Hulk vs. the Mighty Thor #11 - A Dark And Stormy Knight #12 - The Titan Strikes Back! #13 - For Sale: One Planet... Slightly Used! #14 - And Who Shall Inherit The Earth? #15 - Panic Beneath The Earth? #16 - Alpha The Ultimate Mutant! #17 - Power Play! #18 - Rampage! #19 - Doomball! #20 - The Woman She Was...! #21 - Enter: The Headmen! #22 - Fangs Of Fire And Blood! #23 - ... The Snakes Shall Inherit The Earth! #24 - In The Jaws Of The Serpent! #25 - The Serpent Sheds Its Skin! #26 - Savage Time! #27 - Three Worlds To Conquer! #28 - My Mother, The Badoon! #29 - Let My Planet Go! #30 - Gold Diggers Of Fear! #31 - Nighthawk's Brain! #32 - Musical Minds! #33 - Webbed Hands, Warm Heart! #34 - I Think We're All Bozos In This Book! #35 - Bring Back My Body To Me, To Me...! #36 - A Garden Of Earthly Demise! #37 - Evil In Bloom! #38 - Exile To Oblivion! #39 - Riot In Cellblock 12! #40 - Love, Anarchy And, Oh Yes... The Assassin! #41 - Intruder In The Sand! #42 - And In This Corner: The New Emissaries Of Evil! #43 - This World Is Mine! #44 - Rage Of The Rajah! #45 - We Must Free The Defenders! #46 - Who Remembers Scorpio? (Prelude) #47 - Night Moves! #48 - Who Remembers Scorpio? Part 1: Sinister Savior! #49 - Rampage: Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Two #50 - Scorpio Must Die! Who Remembers Scorpio? Part Three #51 - A Round With The Ringer! #52 - Defender Of The Realm #53 - The Power Principle, Part 1: The Prince And The Presence! #54 - A Study in Survival! The Power Principle Part Two #55 - Emotion, Ego... and Empty Expectations #56 - Val's New York Adventure #57 - And Along Came... Ms. Marvel! #58 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 1 Agents of Fortune #59 - Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 2 Tyranny and Mutation #60 - The Revenge of Vera Gemini! Xenogenesis Day of the Demons Part 3 #61 - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Lunatik #62 - Membership Madness! Dollar Bill’s Documentary Disaster Part 1! #63 - Deadlier by the Dozen! #64 - D-Day! #65 - Of Ambitions and Giant Amoebas #66 - War of the Dead! Val in Valhalla Part One #67 - We, The Unliving... #68 - Valhalla Can Wait! Val in Valhalla Part Three #69 - The Anything Man #70 - Catch a Falling Lunatik! #71 - Stranger and Stranger in a Strange Land #72 - Up From The Sky #73 - Of Wizards, Shadows and Kings #74 - Fools Rush In #75 - Poetic Justice #76 - Little Triggers! #77 - Waiting For The End Of The World! #78 - The Return of the Original Defenders! #79 - Chains of Love! #80 - Once A Defender #81 - War in Ogeon #82 - Wizard-Death! #83 - End Of The Tunnel #84 - Battle Royal! #85 - Like a Proud Black Panther… #86 - The Left Hand of Silence! #87 - Inquest #88 - Lord of the Whales #89 - A Death in the Family! #90 - Mind Over Mandrill! #91 - Defiance #92 - Eternity... Humanity... Oblivion! #93 - The Woman Behind the Man! #94 - Beware... The Six-Fingered Hand! #95 - The Vampire Strikes Back! #96 - The Rock and Roll Conspiracy! #97 - Slouching Toward Bethlehem #98 - The Hand Closes! #99 - The Final Conflict? #100 - Hell on Earth! #101 - Renewal #102 - Mind Games #103 - The Haunting of Christianboro #104 - Yesterday Never Dies! #105 - ... Rising... #106 - The War to End All Wars #107 - On Death and Dying... #108 - The Wasteland! #109 - Vengeance! Cries the Valkyrie #110 - ... Hunger... #111 - Fathers and Daughters #112 - Strange Visitor From Another Planet! #113 - Moon Madness #114 - Dance of Darkness, Dance of Light #115 - A Very Wrong Turn #116 - Two By Two #117 - The Gift #118 - The Double #119 - Ashes, Ashes... We All Fall Down #120 - Sanctuary #121 - Savior #122 - Things To Come #123 - Of Elves And Androids #124 - Darkness On The Edge Of Time #125 - Hello, I Must Be Going. (or... Mad Dogs and Elvishmen!)
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Review: The secret origin of Nighthawk? C’mon, we all know he’s Batman…but is he? Kyle Richmond is no Bruce Wayne: he’s a hot-headed troublemaker, refusing any type of discipline, mad at the world. But he’s also searching for a father figure. He also has a heart problem, which is Tony Stark not Bruce Wayne. And while Bruce put on the disguise as irresponsible playboy, Kyle was the real thing, until he received a potion that increased his strength by moonlight (wait, isn’t that also Moon Knight’s shtick?)
The other best part is the introduction of Ruby Thursday, named after a Rolling Stones song by someone who didn’t quite remember it. An incredibly shapely body with a head that looks like a red crystalline bowling ball capable of taking on any shape and extruding tentacles and a lot more besides. It takes a lot to be the weirdest member of a team that includes a dude with a gorilla body and a guy with saggy baggy skin and Ruby pulls off the look. And then on the last page, her head explodes….
Five stars for this issue because of these two superlative characters presented.
Comments: Part two of six parts. Title is a play on the game Musical Chairs in which players are frequently switching seats; here it is brains being switched. First appearance of Ruby Thursday, who becomes a regular member of the Headmen. Evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman (1907-1976) is mentioned. For some reason, none of the Defenders can recognize the marks of brain surgery on Nighthawk.
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