Supreme Power: Nighthawk
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| Supreme Power: Nighthawk | |
 Supreme Power: Nighthawk #1 (Nov. 2005), cover art by Steve Dillon. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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| Schedule | monthly |
| Format | miniseries |
| Publication date | September 2005 - February 2006 |
| Number of issues | Six |
| Main character(s) | Nighthawk Whiteface |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Daniel Way |
| Artist(s) | Steve Dillon |
Supreme Power: Nighthawk was a six-issue limited series written by Daniel Way and illustrated by Steve Dillon. Nighthawk must locate and apprehend the serial killer Whiteface (based on DC Comics' The Joker and on John Wayne Gacy).
[edit] Synopsis
Nighthawk meets the Deputy Mayor of Chicago, who tells him that people are no longer reporting crimes in the south and west sides of the city because they want Nighthawk to take care of the crimes his way. Meanwhile, Steven Binst, an imprisoned and catatonic serial killer, suddenly wakes up after 10 years and walks out of his minimum security correctional facility, made up as a clown, after killing the original one and drives to Chicago.[1]
Five weeks later, after saving a baby from death and taking him to a woman named Doctor Arredondo, Nighthawk sees an epidemic of drug addict deaths all over Chicago. As the death count rises to thirty-eight hundred over three days, the governor is helpless to stop the circulation of poisoned drugs. Nighthawk interrogates a federal judge to try to find the supplier, to no avail. Later Binst, made up as a clown, goes to a birthday party for the mayor's 6-year-old son, killing the mayor's son and wife using balloons filled with poison gas[2]. The mayor, grief-stricken, commits suicide during a press conference, but not before calling on Nighthawk to kill Binst[3].
A manhunt for the killer starts in Grant Park, where the mayor's wife first met Steven Binst. Nighthawk tracks Binst down to an abandoned warehouse, but is knocked out by Binst with a sleeping gas[4]. After escaping Whiteface, Nighthawk is exposed to the poison. Nighthawk out-of-costume goes to see Dr. Arredondo who helped him in the past. She now knows he is Kyle Richmond; after kissing him, he asks about a little baby he saved named "Baby Doe". After Kyle leaves, Dr. Arredondo goes to the nursery to look in on Baby Doe[5].. Unknown to Dr. Arrdondo and Nighthawk, Whiteface enters, takes down Nighthawk, kills Dr. Arredondo and then takes Baby Doe.[6].
After finding Dr. Arredondo dead, Nighthawk goes looking for Steven Binst. The Deputy Mayor of Chicago gives a press conference and says that "Whiteface is dead". Nighthawk tracks Whiteface to a water treatment plant with Baby Doe in hand. Face to face with Nighthawk, Whiteface said how the two men are "opposite sides of the same coin". After a fight and saving Baby Doe, Nighthawk fires a grappling hook gun through Whiteface's midriff, then snaps the killer's neck and drowns him in untreated sewage. Observing the infant for a second, Nighthawk and the child vanish into the night.[7].
