HEROES INCORPORATED
Issue 20: Knights and Days
Appearing in this issue: Playboy, Human Jackrabbit, Kid Comic, and Plasma-Man. Guest Appearances by:
Just about everyone!
Villains: The Green Knight,
the Gauntlet team, various
others in cameos.
Cover:
A boxing ring in Madison Square with Green Knight and Kid Comic/ Knight
Errant facing off. “Fight of the Century. Can Kid Comic
uphold the Honor of Heroes Inc?”
Opening
page: A Kirbesque action scene with Jack Diamond bursting out of
the panel. “54-40 is in trouble! Heroes Incorporate!”
Jack and Kid Comic, the only team members available,
arrive at the end of Central Park to find 54-40 being smacked into a
lamp post by the Green Knight while her teammate Icer watches on.
Green Knight ignores Jack (“You have already been found unworthy.”) to
engage Kid Comic who is in his Corsair form. The fight does not
go well for Kid Comic/Corsair while Jack and Icer watch on, Green
Knight smashes him halfway across the park with the flat of her
blade. Jack tries to figure out what to do next to save Kid Comic
and he calls to the Green Knight, “Stop! Green Knight, you
consider yourself a paragon of chivalry. But where is the honor
in brawling in the park like a common ruffian?”
The Green Knight turns to look at Jack, “What do you
mean, sirrah?”
Jack stands up straight, “Well, if you are going to
be a knight in America, you should challenge him to fight in an
American venue.”
The Green Knight rests on her sword, “Such as?”
Jack smiles, “Madison Square Gardens, next Sunday
night. You and him, one on one.”
The Green Knight nods, “Done. I shall be
there.” She takes Icer and goes.
One page of several panels of Kid Comic in various
forms training with the other members of Heroes Inc. The next
page is all panels of Kid Comic as Knight Errant training. Jack
meets with the Grey Man (leader of the Gauntlet, the group which the
Green Knight belongs to) and agree that the Gauntlet team can watch the
fight from a covered box without risk of arrest. Janice does
research into the legends of Camelot and that of the Green Knight
(including a one page recap of the legend of Gwain and the Green
Knight). Tickets to the match are sold to benefit the Red Cross.
Splash two-page of Madison Square Garden with tons
of cameos, all the members of Heroes Inc (except JetMan) are there, the
Misfits of Science, Captain Liberty, MinuteMan and MinuteMaid, Reggie
the Talking Gorilla, the Duke of Edinburgh, various politicians
(including Barry Goldwater and Bobby Kennedy) and film stars and, up in
a corner, a man with white hair in a white three-piece suit . . .
Kid Comic appears is in his Knight Errant
form. With Captain Liberty is acting as referee. The fight
is quite dramatic with first Knight Errant then Green Knight having the
upper hand. But Knight Errant comes back strong and the Green
Knight offers her surrender. It is accepted and the heroes and
the Green Knight retire to a feast at one of the better restaurants in
New York.
Is this the start of the rehabilitation of the Green
Knight? Or a more complex plot by the Gauntlet?
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