A Dame to Kill For

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Dame To Kill For

Cover for A Dame to Kill For
Cover for A Dame to Kill For

Publisher Dark Horse Comics
First appearance A Dame To Kill For, Issue #1
Created by Frank Miller
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Full Name A Dame To Kill For
Affiliations: Dwight McCarthy
Marv
Status: 6 Issues (episodes)
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A Dame to Kill For is the second Sin City yarn and the first Sin City story to have its own comic. It was written and drawn by Frank Miller, the logo was designed by Steve Miller and it was edited by Jerry Prosser. It's also set to be in Sin City 2, the sequel to the first Sin City film, which is to be released 2007. It was originally published between November 1993 and May 1994.

A Dame to Kill For is a prequel to The Hard Goodbye, as Marv is still alive, but about half-way through after Marv is last seen with Dwight, it is a midquel as some of the events that appear in The Hard Goodbye appear in the background of some parts.

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The first singular Sin City comic and was published November 1993 titled A Dame To Kill For Issue #1 Issues following a Q&A section called BLAM, this starts in Issue 2.

Dwight McCarthy is on top of a house with a window on the roof with a camera. He is on a private investigation and is about to leave and give up but then he hears two people coming in, Joey and his mistress Sally. Dwight was sent to investigate Joey, who is having a rough marriage and that is why he has a mistress, Sally, who is an Old Town Girl.

Sin City
Yarns The Hard Goodbye | A Dame to Kill For | The Babe Wore Red and Other Stories | Silent Night | The Big Fat Kill | That Yellow Bastard | Daddy's Little Girl | Lost, Lonely, & Lethal | Sex & Violence | Just Another Saturday Night | Family Values | Hell and Back (a Sin City Love Story) | Booze, Broads, & Bullets
Films Sin City | Sin City 2 (in production) | Sin City 3: Hell and Back (in production)
Characters Marv | Jack Rafferty | Nancy Callahan | John Hartigan | Dwight McCarthy | Wallace | Miho | Kevin | Cardinal Roark | Ava Lord | Junior/That Yellow Bastard | Senator Roark | List of characters from Sin City
People Frank Miller | Robert Rodriguez