November 1978
Good Guy: Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Martin Stein)
Bad Guys: The Hyena / Multiplex (Danton Black)
Cameos: Cliff Carmichael, Doreen Day
Overview
"Again: Multiplex"
Firestorm is set upon by the Hyena after he stops a mob theft. Every time the cops are mentioned the Hyena goes a little crazy (from issue #4). Firestorm defeats the Hyena but is hit from behind by the mob bosses son, “Spit” Shine, who has been watching the fight from his car.
Spit captures the unconscious Hyena and takes him back to the headquarters where… the Hyena escapes.
Ronnie takes Doreen to the newspaper where his father works and he discovers that his father hasn’t been a reporter for twenty years and that he had lied to him. On the way home from the paper Doreen and Ronnie bump in to Multiplex, who has just escaped from hospital, in the Subway. He is draining electrical power from the tracks in order to gain his multiplication powers back.
Martin has hired a private detective to follow him to see where he goes during his ‘blackouts’. While they’re having some drinks, too many for Martin, Ronnie summons Firestorm.
A drunk Firestorm defeats Multiplex by giving him too much power than he can handle and multiplying him a thousand fold. The end sequence shows that Firestorm did not defeat the original Multiplex just one of his clones and that now the Hyena and Multiplex have teamed up.
Overall Rating: 6/10
A worthwhile read but not as enjoyable as issue three. On the last page we see that the next issue was to have Typhoon as the villain and that it was to be on sale in the first week of September. This never came to pass as the first volume was cancelled after this issue. I believe the Typhoon issue may not have been released until Firestorm (Vol 2) #8 in 1983, which was the first Firestorm book I ever read.
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Spit captures the unconscious Hyena and takes him back to the headquarters where… the Hyena escapes.
Ronnie takes Doreen to the newspaper where his father works and he discovers that his father hasn’t been a reporter for twenty years and that he had lied to him. On the way home from the paper Doreen and Ronnie bump in to Multiplex, who has just escaped from hospital, in the Subway. He is draining electrical power from the tracks in order to gain his multiplication powers back.
Martin has hired a private detective to follow him to see where he goes during his ‘blackouts’. While they’re having some drinks, too many for Martin, Ronnie summons Firestorm.
A drunk Firestorm defeats Multiplex by giving him too much power than he can handle and multiplying him a thousand fold. The end sequence shows that Firestorm did not defeat the original Multiplex just one of his clones and that now the Hyena and Multiplex have teamed up.
Overall Rating: 6/10
A worthwhile read but not as enjoyable as issue three. On the last page we see that the next issue was to have Typhoon as the villain and that it was to be on sale in the first week of September. This never came to pass as the first volume was cancelled after this issue. I believe the Typhoon issue may not have been released until Firestorm (Vol 2) #8 in 1983, which was the first Firestorm book I ever read.
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Upon research I found out that the Typhoon issue was in fact a different story and is referred to as No.6 and is one of many stories in the big "Cancelled Comics Cavalcade" issue. Which I think there were two issues of in the late seventies.
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