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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
Genre | Superhero |
Publication date | April 2003 – January 2005 |
Number of issues | 22 |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Will Pfeifer |
Artist(s) | Kano Leonard Kirk Dale Eaglesham |
Collected editions | |
Power & Abilities | ISBN 1401201687 |
H.E.R.O. is an American comic book series published by DC Comics that started in 2003 and ran for 22 issues. The series was written by Will Pfeifer. Artists included Kano, Leonard Kirk and Dale Eaglesham.
The series' focus was the "H-Dial" that DC had first introduced in "Dial H for Hero" in House of Mystery in the 1960s. For this series the Dial was depicted as an object with buttons instead of a dial and was referred to as the H-Device.
Unlike earlier stories, H.E.R.O. did not have one or two protagonists being turned into a new hero every issue, but showed the H-Device passing from bearer to bearer, examining how different people react to the sudden gift of supernatural powers. There was a subplot involving Robby Reed (the main character from the original Dial H for Hero) that ran through most issues and led to the series' final storyline.
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Issues #15–22 bring together all the elements presented in the previous issues. Robby Reed is the featured character as he attempts to stop a serial killer who has obtained the H-Device and gained the power to use any power he can think of. Most of the other characters from the previous storyarcs are either recruited by Reed or killed by the serial killer. Tony Finch is one exception to this when he agrees to work for the serial killer.
The series ends with the H-Device being sent back in time where it is found by the caveman from issue #11. On a related note, the H-Device's powers are internalized into Robby Reed,[1] Jerry Feldon[1] (and later his son[2]), Anthony Finch,[3] Matt Allen,[4], Andrea Allen[4], and Wayne[4] (of Captain Chaos).
Part of the series has been collected as a trade paperback: