Written by Dean
Motter Art by Greg Scott
This originally
appeared as a digital comic and was only collected in Dominic Fortune: It can
happen here and now along with Howard Chaykin’s Dominic Fortune Max series and
reprints of the stories from Marvel Preview 2 and Marvel Premiere #56 and a
Who’s Who Entry for Dominic Fortune.
I’ve done the
reprints earlier and I’ll look at the Who’s Who at the end of this review, with
the Max series next.
The story opens in 1936, Dom is working
as a test pilot/private eye out of an office in Los Angeles. Fortune is hired by Amanda
Maclain to investigate the death of her sister. The investigation takes them
to:
· New York where they encounter Howard Stark, Dr
Myron McClain;
· Germany where they meet Baron Wolfgang von
Strucker, Johan Schmidt, Baron Helmut Zemo;
· Latveria: Werner von Doom;
· Wakanda: T’Chaka;
· Casablanca: Fortune’s friend Rick is able to get
them letters of transit;
· Lord Robert Plunder is mentioned.
And involves the Nazis and Stark trying to obtain
Vibranium.
Rick is of course Rick Blaine from the movie
Casablanca.
Howard Stark is the father of Tony Stark (Iron
Man).
Johan Schmidt would later become the Red Skull and
along with the Barons von Strucker and Zemo enemies of Captain America and Nick
Fury.
Werner von Doom is the father of Doctor Doom.
T’Chaka is the father of T’Chala his successor as
The Black Panther.
Lord Robert Plunder is the father of Lord Kevin
Plunder Ka-Zar.
The crash of the Hindenberg is mentioned in issue
#4.
It’s a total
ride through the Marvel Universe of the 1930s and a lot of fun.
The art is
quite nice with sketchy style and a pastel colour scheme. It’s a nice story that really cements Dom in
the 1930s. The story ends with Sabbath Raven
offering Dom to come and live on the Mississippi Queen.
The Who’s Who
article gives us a good recounting of the stories up until the Vanguard story
giving us Dominic Fortune’s history mentioning Jerome’s brief time as Dominic
Fortune and the appearance of the third Dominic Fortune. The stats tell us that that his family
consisted of Wife (unnamed, deceased), Jerome (son, deceased), Betty (Daughter-in-law),
daughter, two grandsons and a granddaughter (all unidentified). Where did we learn about the daughter? I
don’t know. I’ve read all the stories
and there was no mention of a daughter.
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