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Issue: StormWatch #[2]
Publication Date: May 2000
 
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Title: Lightning Strikes
Variant: First Printing
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Wildstorm WSView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 03/15/2000
Volume: none
Pages: 148
ISBN: 1563896508
UPC/EAN: 9781563896507
Price: $23.50 CAD
$14.95 USD
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Content Items: 16 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Lightning Strikes

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
superhero
Stormwatch [Jack Hawksmoor; Jenny Sparks; Battalion [Jackson King]]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Jack Hawksmoor
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Illustrated with a figure from page 22 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #43 (December 1996).
Jack Hawksmoor

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
espionage, superhero
Jack Hawksmoor; illegitimate son of John Fitzgerald Kennedy; US Secret Service agents ["Marilyn Monroe"; others unnamed]; NYPD police officers [Ken; Dave]
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.
Reprinting
FlagStormwatch #43 published December 1996
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
24
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Jenny Sparks
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Illustrated with a figure from page 17 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #44 (January 1997).
Jenny Sparks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
espionage, superhero
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)
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.
Reprinting
FlagStormwatch #44 [Standard Cover] published January 1997
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
23
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".
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Battalion [Jackson King]
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Miscellaneous
2
Illustrated with a figure from page 8 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #38 (August 1996).
Battalion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
espionage, superhero
Stormwatch [Battalion [Jackson King]; Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]]; Mamba Team Militia [McCreary; others unnamed]
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.
Reprinting
FlagStormwatch #45 published February 1997
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
22
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Rose Tattoo
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Miscellaneous
2
Illustrated with a detail from page 10 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #37 (July 1996).
Rose Tattoo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
espionage, superhero
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
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.
Reprinting
FlagStormwatch #46 published March 1997
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
22
First appearance of the High and Science City 57.
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
superhero
Stormwatch [Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]; Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Fuji [Toshiro Misawa]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]]
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Illustrated with a detail from page 6 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #47 (May 1997).
Assembly

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
espionage, superhero
Stormwatch [Weatherman One [Henry Bendix]; Fahrenheit [Lauren Pennington]; Winter [Nikolas Kamarov]; Fuji [Toshiro Misawa]; Flint [Victoria Ngengi]; Hellstrike [Nigel Keane]]; Daemonites
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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FlagStormwatch #47 published May 1997
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
22
Story made up entirely of splash pages
Gallery

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
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]]
Reprinting
FlagStormwatch #43 published December 1996
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
FlagStormwatch #44 [Standard Cover] published January 1997
was Torrid Tales [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagStormwatch #44 [Variant Who Watches The Weatherman Cover] published January 1997
was Torrid Tales [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
FlagStormwatch #44 [Variant Pop Art Masterpiece Cover] published January 1997
was Pop Art Masterpiece [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagStormwatch #45 published February 1997
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagStormwatch #46 published March 1997
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagStormwatch #47 published May 1997
was [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
15
All covers enlarged and rotated to the left, taking up two pages
Masthead

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Executive credits
Backlist

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Jenny Sparks

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Jenny Sparks
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover illustrated with a figure from page 7 from Stormwatch (Image, 1993 series) #42 (November 1996).

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