This weekend’s light-hearted and escapist superhero blog post here at Balladeer’s Blog will examine the milestone Bronze Age attempt to revive DC’s Golden Age hero Manhunter.
DETECTIVE COMICS Vol 1 #437 (November 1973) Later reprinted multiple times in Trade Paperback collections of the entire new Manhunter saga.
Title: The Himalayan Incident
Villains: The Council
Synopsis: Interpol Agent Christine St. Clair is assigned to locate the former Big Game Hunter Paul Kirk, who, decades earlier, had secretly become the costumed crimefighter called Manhunter. A new Manhunter has been reported around the world and Christine’s superior at Interpol wants the figure found due to his involvement with multiple assassinations.
Christine travels to Nepal to investigate this new Manhunter’s recent actions which saved the life of a wealthy philanthropist. Via flashbacks from her informant, she learns that the new Manhunter has been battling an organization which made several clones of Paul Kirk and has been using them to carry out the assassinations that Manhunter is blamed for because the clones wear blue costumes like his red one.
The lone “good” Manhunter clone is the one thwarting the evil clones whenever he can. Recently in Nepal, the good Manhunter saved the above-mentioned philanthropist in the tale told in flashback this issue. Continue reading
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