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Issue: StormWatch #2
Publication Date: January 2000
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Issues: #2 of 5 Issues (8 Printings)
Title: Lightning Strikes
Is Variant Variant: Second Printing
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 148
ISBN: 1563896508
UPC/EAN: 9781563896507
Price: $23.50 CAD
$14.95 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
16 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Scott Dunbier (group editor); Eric DeSantis (collected edition editor); Mike Heisler (original series editor); Mike Rockwitz (original series editor); Darren Nylec (book design); Ben Dimagmaliw (book design)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: squarebound; trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Lightning Strikes

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Jack Hawksmoor; Jenny Sparks; Battalion [Jackson King]]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jack Hawksmoor
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with a figure from page 22 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #43 (December 1996).
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Jack Hawksmoor

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Jack Hawksmoor; illegitimate son of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; US Secret Service agents ["Marilyn Monroe"; others unnamed]; NYPD police officers [Ken; Dave]
Synopsis: Jack Hawksmoor tracks a down a murderer in New York City, and it turns out he's the illegitimate son of JFK. Hawksmoor is forced to kill him.
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Pages: 24
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jenny Sparks
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with a figure from page 17 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #44 (January 1997).
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Jenny Sparks

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Jenny Sparks; Battalion [Jackson King]]; Boss Moseley (flashback); Clarence Cornwall (flashback); The Commissioner (flashback); Sliding Albion aliens (flashback); Saul Baxter [Emp] (flashback); British heroes [Abel Eternity; Firesign; others unnamed] (flashback); Inspector Bulstrode (flashback)
Synopsis: Jenny Sparks tells her story to Jackson King, remembering her career as a crimefighter in the US in the 1930s and the 1940s, her involvement with the British military in the 1950s, and failed attempts at bringing the British superhuman community into a working team in the 1960s and 1980s.
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Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: Flashback pages drawn in the style of the Flash Gordon newspaper strip, Golden Age superhero comics, Will Eisner "The Spirit" story, 1950s science fiction comics, Marvel Silver Age, and Dave Gibbons on "Watchmen".
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Battalion [Jackson King]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with a figure from page 8 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #38 (August 1996).
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Battalion

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Battalion [Jackson King]; Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]]; Mamba Team Militia [McCreary; others unnamed]
Synopsis: Battalion is abducted while on a day off in Constitution, Alabama, and has to stop a private militia from carrying out a terrorist attack. As a result, the US government bans Stormwatch from operating on US soil.
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Pages: 22
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rose Tattoo
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with a detail from page 10 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #37 (July 1996).
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Rose Tattoo

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Officer Guard Tyburn; Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]; Officer Guard Sebastian]; Stormwatch Red [Rose Tattoo; Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]]; Stormwatch Prime [Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]]; Stormwatch Black [Swift [Shen Li Min]; Jenny Sparks]; The High [John Cumberland]; Clark from Clark's Bar
Synopsis: The Stormwatch field teams go teleporting around the world, visiting bars in Kazakhstan (The Last Shot in Science City 57), London (the Wolfshead, British superhuman hangout), Paris and New York (Clark's Bar). Rose Tattoo rapes a guard, but instead of punishing her, Bendix wants her to kill the High, who has left his seat in the Himalayas after decades of immobility.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the High and Science City 57.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]; Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Fuji [Toshiro Misawa]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]]
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Illustrated with a detail from page 6 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #47 (May 1997).
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Assembly

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]; Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]; Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Fuji [Toshiro Misawa]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]]; Daemonites
Synopsis: After a team of Stormwatch personnel goes missing in Serbia, Bendix assembles a strike team of superpowered operatives, who discover a hidden cache of Daemonite technology and living experiments that were accidentally released. Stormwatch kill the creatures.
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Story made up entirely of splash pages
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Gallery

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Stormwatch [Jack Hawksmoor; Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Jenny Sparks; Battalion [Jackson King]; Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]; Rose Tattoo; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]; Fuji [Toshiro Misawa]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]; Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]]
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: All covers enlarged and rotated to the left, taking up two pages
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Masthead

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Executive credits
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Backlist

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Jenny Sparks

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jenny Sparks
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover illustrated with a figure from page 7 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #42 (November 1996).

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