BLACK POWDER (2011)
"(W/A) Dwayne Harris Double-Sized First Issue! Set during the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake of 1812, Black Powder is the story of Robert Young, a former captain in the Barbary Wars, and his river journey on America's first steamboat to rescue the woman he loves from a gang of river pirates led by his cutthroat nemesis and former commander, Samuel Mason. On the way he encounters hostile Indians, swashbuckling battles, and historical figures, all set against the backdrop of an earthquake that sinks islands, reverses the flow of the Mississippi river, and wrenchingly exposes the fractures of a new nation itself."
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Writer
Dwayne Harris
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Reading Order
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BLACK POWDER #1 (OF 3) (MR)
"(W/A) Dwayne Harris Double-Sized First Issue! Set during the catastrophic New Madrid earthquake of 1812, Black Powder is the story of Robert Young, a former captain in the Barbary Wars, and his river journey on America's first steamboat to rescue the woman he loves from a gang of river pirates led by his cutthroat nemesis and former commander, Samuel Mason. On the way he encounters hostile Indians, swashbuckling battles, and historical figures, all set against the backdrop of an earthquake that sinks islands, reverses the flow of the Mississippi river, and wrenchingly exposes the fractures of a new nation itself."
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BLACK POWDER #2 (OF 6) (MR)
"Robert Young and his crew set out on the Mississippi River in search of Molly Livingston, who has been captured by the ruthless river pirate Samuel Mason. As they make their way north against the current, they approach hostile indian territory as well as the first in series of terrible earthquakes. Meanwhile, Molly is threatened with rape and death at the hand of Samuel Mason and his gang of cutthroats!"