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THE CALL OF DUTY: THE BROTHERHOOD COMIC BOOK #1!
MARVEL MUST HAVES Edition, also featuring two issues of DAREDEVIL.
The premiere first issue of the fantastic comic book series about FDNY Fire Fighters! The story of New York's finest heroes begins in this issue.
Featuring a fantastic cover by DAVID FINCH.
This comic book was never available to the mass market and was only sold in comic book specialty shops.
Hard to find COLLECTOR'S ITEM!
RARE and OUT OF PRINT! Impossible to find!
Produced by Marvel Comics, the publishers of SPIDERMAN, THE HULK, THE X-MEN, IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA and DAREDEVIL!
From the New York Daily News...
MARVEL-OUS COMICS ON CITY HEROES
By ETHAN SACKS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, June 3th 2002, 1:80AM
Need to foil a megalomaniacal supervillain? Call Spider-Man.
Need to stop an evil mutant out to enslave the human race? Get hold of the X-Men.
Need to put out a raging fire or put down a crack-adled gunman holding hostages?
That's a job for real heroes.
Marvel Comics is betting there is plenty of room in the post-Sept. 11 superhero world for inspiring stories about New York's firefighters, police officers and EMS workers.
The comics' publisher will release "The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood," focusing on FDNY firefighters. It is the first of three six-issue miniseries that will focus on real-life New York City heroes.
"There's a real fever to see these kinds of people and heroes immortalized in our type of storytelling," said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor in chief.
Quesada and his staff are trying to keep the story lines secret. However, "The Brotherhood" closely follows the exploits of several fictional firefighters as they respond to emergencies, both big and small, around the city.
But because the stories take place in superhero land, there are hints of the supernatural.
For example, "The Brotherhood" opens in the middle of a raging townhouse fire. One of the firefighters notices a little girl in the midst of the flames but mysteriously unaffected by them. When the firefighter tries to rescue her, she disappears.
Veteran comics writer Chuck Austen, 40, of California, wrote "The Brotherhood" script. He did extensive research on FDNY procedures and lore and spent time with Engine 228 in Brooklyn and one of its officers, Lt. Richard Smith, the father of a Marvel Comics editor.
From his association with Lt. Smith and his men, Austen got a clear sense of just how tight-knit a community firefighters have.
For his part, Smith, a 24-year veteran of the department, has no fear in the way Marvel might be potraying firefighters.
"The way they're treating [the subject] and the recognition they're giving the firefighters in New York City, I think it celebrates [the profession]," Smith said
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