Script by Danny
Fingeroth Art by Dave Ross
There was
another Dominic Fortune story published in between the Iron Man and these
issues but this two parter finishes the clash between Dominic Fortune and Simon
Steele (aka Baron Wolfgang Von Lundt).
It took four years to get to this story – five since the first Web of
Spiderman issue.
Peter Parker
just happens to be walking past when someone tries to kill Dominic Fortune,
visiting the grave of his son Jerry (interestingly the grave just reads Fortunov,
no first name or dates.) Dom asks Peter to let him into the Bugle archives to
find a clue so he can track down Simon Steele and kill him. Peter refuses trying to persuade Fortune to
let the police do their job.
We then cross
to Simon Steele, hiding in his town house a wanted man for the killing of Jerry
Fortunov and the US has cancelled his unofficial immunity for helping them at
the end of the war. Steele is killing
all the witnesses and young Sabbath is using a computer virus to erase all
computerised trace of Wolfgang Von Lundt as well as the physical files held by
Interpol. Once that’s done it’s off to
South America for Sabbath and Steele.
Peter is
researching Dominic Fortune and there is an interview Dom gave to the Bugle a
few years back (presumably after the events of Marvel Team Up 120 to see if he
could get any clues.)
Dom tells that
he and Raven were in Rotterdam just before the Nazi invasion and they had a
fight. He went to get her and she had
left. Dom was evacuated and returned
three years later as a GI. The war broke
him and he searched for years for Sabbath until the Mississippi Queen was
sold. Dom then married and had children
and retired.
Peter is then
given an assignment to get pictures of the last witness of Von Lundt’s war
crimes. The witness named Myers is under
heavy police protection but when Peter arrives there are no police and the hit
squad is on the roof. Another wave of killers strike and Silver Sable and the
Wild Pack launch a counter attack and capture the goons. The Wild Pack were formed to track Nazis and they
are on Steele’s case. Sable’s radio then
announces that her men at Fortune’s are under attack. Spidey tags along and manages to take out a
tank before Steele’s men are stopped.
Under interrogation the captured men reveal Steele’s location.
Fortune mentions that he knew Sable’s father but he was going to get Steele first even if he is going into a trap. Pay attention, the fact that Dom met both Silver Sable and her father will be important later.
Dom makes his way to Steele and is about kill the
man when Spidey and the Wild Pack arrive.
But they don’t stop him, it’s the original Sabbath Raven who tells Dom he’s
not a killer.
Steele then
sets off his trap and we discover that the older Sabbath is his wife, just as
the bomb blows up the townhouse.
Oh no! we end
on a cliffhanger, are Dom, Spidey and Silver Sable dead?
Luckily we
don’t have to wait, I have the next issue (seriously I’m getting a little tired
of is Old Man Dom dead?)
Spidey has
sensed the bomb and threw it away minimising the effects of the blast and holds
up the fallen wall long enough for everyone to escape. Dominic apparently has a heart attack and
goes to the hospital as Sable and Spidey keep searching.
Peter visits Dom
in the hospital when Sable tells him to go away and discovers that Fortune has
been killed by a killer.
Ha can’t fool
me, Dom isn’t dead, I bet he didn’t even have a heart attack it’s all a ruse to
follow the killer. Sure enough there is Dom
and his men follow the killer to the Mississippi Queen to rescue Sabbath senior. She tells him that after they separated she
joined Heinrich Von Lundt, a resistance fighter. After the war they married and had a daughter
Elena, but Heinrich was assassinated.
Wolfgang
reached out to his sister in law and niece, and offered to marry Sabbath to
help him become an American citizen. But it was Wolfgang’s revenge on his
brother, raising his daughter as his protégé.
After story Dom
and Sabbath are captured but Silver Sable and Spiderman come to the
rescue. Dom threatens to kill Steele and
Elena when Elena shoots her mother. The
Wild Pack round up all of Steele’s men.
Spiderman saves
Sabbath, but she won’t abandon her daughter and he vows to try to win her back.
The End
That’s where
the saga of Old Man Dom ended. There is
one more story from this time that we’ll look at next. I think they went to the “is Dom dead?” well
too many times.
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