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veteran, fakes his own death and makes his way to Central America to create a new identity for himself as Harry Kraft, a hard-drinking smuggler. During a war in Guatemala, a CIA operative blackmails Block into assassinating Rosa de Santiis, a popular leader in opposition to the CIA puppet dictator
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General Zavala. Afterward, he heads back to the United States, taking a road trip from Hollywood to Chicago to New York, exploring myriad avenues of 1950s American culture.
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The comic ends with Block essentially turning into the character he had created for the fictional "Starburst Comics", a vigilante known as "Dr. Dream".
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The story concerned a former American pilot who fakes his death and goes on the run in the 1950s. Chaykin intended it as a "left-wing version of
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Howard Chaykin
Publisher
Vertigo
Ongoing series
Crime
Howard Chaykin
David Tischman
Howard Chaykin
David Tischman
Penciller(s)
Marc Laming
Luke Ross
Lan Medina
Inker(s)
John Stokes
Digital Chameleon
Letterer(s)
Ken Bruzenak
Digital Chameleon
John Costanza
Colorist(s)
Pamela Rambo
Shelly Bond
Collected editions
ISBN
978-1563897917
ISBN
978-1563898853
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