Damage

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Damage (disambiguation) .

Damage is the title of a comic series that the US publisher DC Comics published from 1994 to 1996.

The series was a mixture of adventure and science fiction comics and was about the experiences of a teenage superhero of the same name .

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Damage goes back to an idea of ​​the author Bill Joyner who also acted as the author of all the stories in the series. DC-Comics began with the publication of the series in April 1994, which from then on appeared on a monthly basis until January 1996. Damage reached a total of twenty-one issues, issues # 1 to # 20 and a special issue from October 1994 designated as issue # 0. The series' main illustrator was the American Bill Marimon , who was occasionally directed by Jason Armstrong. Tom McWeeney usually acted as an ink artist.

After Damage was discontinued, the character of the title hero Grant Emerson alias Damage was used by DC Comics in numerous other series - especially in team series that describe the adventures of entire groups of characters. Damage was at times one of the main characters in such series as The New Titans (1994-1996), Titans (1998-2000) and Justice Society of America (since 2006).

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The plot of Damage begins with high school student Grant Emerson waking up one day to discover that he was miraculously given superpowers overnight. From then on he has the ability to create explosions from his body by causing things to erupt by simply touching them. In addition, there are some common traits found in superhero comics such as superhuman strength, endurance, and resilience.

Emerson initially uses his powers to act as a superhero. Accordingly, he gets involved in some genre-typical battles with super villains such as Baron Blitzkrieg or Iron Munro. After accidentally destroying downtown Atlanta in the heat of a battle , he is temporarily arrested and expelled from his home state of Georgia. In later editions of his own series, Damage joins the Titans superhero team and discovers the secret of his superpowers, which is attributed to the fact that he is the son of the late superhero Al Pratt aka Atom. More psychological stories include Damage's attempt to track down a school friend's murderer and coming to terms with a long-repressed childhood trauma, abuse by his foster father. Most recently, Damage lived on a reservation for Indians for a while before joining the Justice Society superhero team.