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Sin City: Lost, Lonely, & Lethal                        One-shot Comic
Writer: Frank Miller
Artist: Frank Miller
Front Cover by: Frank Miller
Back Cover by: Frank Miller

Frank Miller’s Sin City first appeared in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 before these stories. Each series is intended to stand alone, published when ready rather than on a strict schedule. Sin City itself is a setting for each story-line, unnamed but seemingly rotten to the core. The characters all converge on Old Town, a no-go area for cops where the law is the law of the fist, the gun or, in some cases, the sword. At the heart of Old Town is a bar where strippers dress as cowboys and money will buy you almost anything. The women of the bar are also the area’s enforcers; if you cross them, you won’t live to regret it. But underlying all of the tales is something like the Japanese code of bushido, where honor means everything, especially if it’s all you’ve got.

Frank Miller, comics’ enfant terrible and the talent behind Daredevil and Batman: The Dark Knight, has honed his dark vision down to its starkest essence in his ongoing series of comics-noir, Sin City. In Sin City, the guys are wise, the dames are dangerous, and everyone and everything is irredeemably corrupt. Lost, Lonely and Lethal is a brutal little one-shot exploring the dangers and temptations of love lost and found again in the seamy Sin City underworld. In 1997, Miller famously decried the “retro” impulse in comics as “nostalgia with a nose ring.” In Sin City: Lost, Lonely and Lethal, Miller serves up nostalgia for the good old days of the 1930s and 40s on the business end of a branding iron: hot, personal, and with intent to leave a permanent impression.

Sin City: Lost, Lonely, & Lethal contains:

“Fat Man and Little Boy”   3 pages

Shlubb’s boots are in horrible shape, and he wishes to steal the shoes off a corpse, wrapped in a rug, that they’re supposed to dump in the river. Klump tells him that they’re supposed to leave the body as it is. Shlubb disagrees and pulls the boots off, to discover that there are no feet in them, and a ticking sound rings through their ears. This was apparently a test, and the two buffoons get thrown several yards away as the explosion hits. It seems they failed the test miserably.
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“Rats”   7 pages

A sadistic war criminal (and presumed Nazi) stuffs rats in his oven to eat as he mentally rambles about the London Blitz, his arthritis, and how he killed all the ‘rats’, which were all people. A vigilante known among readers as ‘The Janitor’ kicks down the door and incapacitates him, before shoving his head into the oven, gassing him to death.
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“Blue Eyes”   14 pages

Jim notices someone he assumes is a hitman following him. He runs into Kadie’s, where he is confronted by an ex-flame named Delia. Marv is sitting next to them at the bar, and provides some comic relief. The hitman enters the bar, and Jim convinces Delia to leave with him. Marv then steals his drink, reasoning that it would have gone to waste otherwise.

Jim and Delia go back to his place and make love. She then attacks him, and explains that this is her test. She wants to become a hit-woman, and she must first kill the only man she ever loved. After killing Jim, the Colonel appears – he was the ‘hitman’ who had been following Jim. He gives her an assignment, and she takes on the name ‘Blue Eyes’, which is what Jim used to call her.

Blue Eyes is shown to take place at the same time as A Dame To Kill For, as part of the story shows Gail telling Shelley what to tell the police about Dwight. The story also has brief appearances by many characters, including Miho, Agammemnon and Manute.
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One-shot Comic is bagged & triple boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: December 1996
Format: BW, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 761568967401

Collectible Entertainment note: One-Shot Comic is in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Sin City and/or Frank Miller collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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