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POWER COMPANY #9
Cover Date: December 2002
Cover Price: $2.75
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Tom Grummett
Inks: Michael Bair
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Credits:
| Story | Kurt Busiek |
| Pencils | Tom Grummett |
| Inks | Prentis Rollins |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Alex Sinclair |
| Editing | Peter J. Tomasi |
Feature Character(s):
- Power Company:
- Josiah Power (last in flashback in between JLA #61/2 and issue #8)
- Skyrocket (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
- Manhunter IV (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
- Bork (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
- Witchfire (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
- Sapphire (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
- Striker Z (also in flashback in between flashback in issue #8 and framing story)
Guest Star(s):
- Green Arrow (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding JLA/JSA: Virtue & Vice)
Supporting Character(s):
- Rupe (last in issue #6)
- Silver Shannon (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding in #12)
- Lt. Solomon Driver (last in issue #5)
Villain(s):
- BioMax (Jack Spheer; in flashback following flashback in issue #8)
- Cadre:
- Black Mass (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Crowbar (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Fastball (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Nightfall (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Shatterfist II (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Starshrike (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and preceding issue #13)
- Doctor Polaris (in flashback following flashback in issue #14 and preceding issue #12)
Guest Appearance(s):
- Helen Angelico (a.k.a. "Doc Angel"; last in Superboy Vol. 3 #87; a meta-human specialist; next in issue #12)
Other Character(s):
- Jason Spheer (in flashback following flashback in issue #8 and #9)
- A Controller (first appearance; last in flashback in issue #14)
- Dayton Industries employees (in flashback)
- hospital staff and visitors
Comment(s):
- Story continued from the previous issue and continues in the next issue.
Synopsis: - Josiah's situation is critical. The Company members arrive at the hospital and remember the last day, which was anything but a success:
- Manhunter and Striker Z succeeded in defeating BioMax and the mind-controlled Green Arrow. However, Manhunter chose the option not to reveal BioSpheer's illegal activities to the police, instead extracting money from BioSpheer in return for his silence. Skyrocket's team did a pro-bono mission without authorization, then suddenly had to barely escape with their lives from the Cadre and Doctor Polaris. Witchfire stayed away from dangeroues escapades, but signed the entire Power Company team to star in a TV show.
- Back in the headquarters, the three partners had a violent fight over each other's decisions. Josiah, always the leader, calmed them down, then condemned all their illegal and unauthorized actions. The team has a great deal of respect for Josiah, who is obviously the glue keeping the Company together. Later the same day, Josiah was shot.
- The crisis bands the Company members together and they vow to bring Josiah's shooter to justice, whatever it takes. Then Solomon Driver enters the scene and reveals that the police have found the shooter, who had no grand-scale motives for his crime. The Company members are paralyzed. Josiah is in a coma. The shooter has been arrested. What now?