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The Legion of Night                                   Trade Paperback Lot
Featuring Marvel’s Fearsome Dragon… Fing Fang Foom!
Writer: Steve Gerber
Artist: Whilce Portacio
Inkers: Scott Williams & Dan Panosian
Colorist: Paul Mounts
Letterer: John Workman
Editors: Tom DeFalco, Len Kaminski, & Ralph Macchio
All Covers by: Whilce Portacio & Scott Williams

Fin Fang Foom, a depraved religious cult, demons, and a modern-day witch!

Several people with occult knowledge or sensitivity are alerted when Charles Blackwater is killed by Reeve Calder. Blackwater successfully defended Calder against federal charges stemming from his cult but learned too much about the cult to remain alive. The cult then brings Fin Fang Foom back to life, fulfilling an ancient prophecy.

Story/Spoilers
In book #1, “Messenger from the Dead, Part I”, A women by the name of Doctor Reynolds is in a mental hospital ranting and raving in the night of bad things to come. An aid of the hospital tries to drug her to sleep. Before Dr. Reynolds passes out, she tells the aid that her boyfriend is cheating on her with one of her friends. In Malibu, California, Jennifer Kale and her friend Bernard Drabble watch the sun set near their campus and break into conversation until Jennifer has a painful vision of someone falling. That night in New York, at a magazine company called Cruel Fate, Journalist Martin Gold tries to get in touch with lawyer Charles Blackwater. However, Charles does not pick up, He does pick up at one point, but hangs up after Martin mentions a certain case known as the Calder Case to him. Elsewhere on top of a high building. Charles Blackwater is seen being thrown out of a window. A while back he sees Blackwater and a cult leader named Mr. Calder discussing charges on Mr. Calder involving illegal activities within his cult. The next day Blackwater investigates the cult’s location and interviews members of the cult whose relatives who are joined in suite to sue the cult in the first place. Days later Blackwater takes Calder’s case to court and wins. Yet later on, Blackheart regrets winning the case. Still interested in the case, Blackwater orders a book from an old bookstore. As he arrives at the store, a little girl tells him his shadow told her Blackwater was coming and that he was going to die. He later investigates a distributor company and shows pictures of the cult members to s suspect. The suspect notices one of the cult members as a child pornographer of his own grand kids. That Night he realized that Calder was running thousands of illegal acts right under the law’s noses. Minutes later after getting a call from Cruel Fate, Calder and his cult break into Blackheart’s office for his files on the case. Blackwater gets a gun and tries to defend himself. Who shoots one of the cult members in the shoulder, but Blackwater ends up getting a dagger thrown into his throat and then gets blasted in the heart by a shot gun which sends him flying through the building window. Blackwater then wakes up in an afterlife version of a kitchen and his mom is there. She serves him peas which turn into a monster. The mother tells Blackwater that true evil lives in the daylight, and that Blackwater must embrace his dark side to fight it. As he hears this his hands sink into a portal which holds this dark substance which transforms him into the fierce monster known as Omen. In his new form, Blackwater kills the Pea monster with a bizarre weapon. After the mother leaves, Blackwater is back on earth in his body, but he has no control over it. Something else does. Back in St. Louis, Dr. Reynolds is strapped to her bed speaking to herself and repeating the name Fing Fang Foom. Back in California, Bernard wakes up in Jennifer’s apartment but she is not in bed. He then spots her old fighting uniform on a counter. As he enters another room, Bernard finds Jennifer floating in mid-air and talking to some portal. As it goes away Bernard is stunned at what he saw. Jen tells him the he has to leave. In New York that same morning, the office of Blackwater is being investigated by Detective Boyl and Martin Gold. As the two talks outside, the living body of Blackwater is hiding in the sewer listening to them. Back on the cult grounds, Calder and his cult take part in a gigantic and deadly ritual summoning something. At the same time in the People’s Republic of China, Fing Fang Foom rises from the ground. The cult has raised Fing Fang Foom and celebrates, however their leader Calder feels some type of fear of things to come in the future.

Finally in book #2, “Messenger From the Dead, Part II”, As Fin Fang Foom destroys New York and begins to usher in a living hell, Omen gathers together his Legion of Night to stop the demon. Omen summons the team to the apartment of Charles Atwater, whom Omen had recently resurrected in order to take control of his body. Blackwater was forced to commit suicide by a former client, The Beyond Reason Spiritual Fellowship, which was resurrecting their hedonistic god, Aan Tanu, through the body of Fin Fang Foom. The Fellowship was based on a rare religious tome that its male leader, Reeve Calder, believed was a hoax. Its female leader, Hildreth, mates with Aan Tanu to create a demonic child. Ariann, however, rips the child out of her womb and kills it.

Trade Paperback Lot contains: The Legion of Night (1991) Books #1-2.  Marvel Comics

Trade Paperbacks are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printings
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: 1991
Format per TPB: FC, 48 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.5″
ISBN-10: 087135750X (Book #1) 0871357518 (Book #2)
ISBN-13: 9780871357502 (Book #1) 9780871357519 (Book #2)

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperbacks 1,2 are in Fine to Fine + condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Legion of Night, Fing Fang Foom and/or Whilce Portacio collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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