''Cinder and Ashe'' is a four issue
comic book
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mini-series
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published by American company
DC Comics
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in 1988. The series was written by
Gerry Conway
Gerard Francis Conway Thomas, Roy. "Roy's Rostrum" ("Bullpen Bulletins") in '' Marvel Super-Heroes'' #43 and other Marvel Comics cover-dated May 1974. (born September 10, 1952) is an American comic book writer, comic book editor, screenwriter, t ...
and drawn by
José Luis García-López
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. The series was labelled "
Suggested for Mature Readers" to indicate that its content may be inappropriate for young children.
Plot summary
The story follows the two partners in a
private investigation
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firm; Jacob Ashe is a
U.S.
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Vietnam War
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veteran, while Cinder DuBois is the child of an African-American soldier and a Vietnamese woman.
[''Cinder and Ashe'' #1 (May 1988)] The series is set in
with
flashbacks to
Vietnam
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.
Cinder and Ashe are hired by a farmer from
Iowa
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to find his kidnapped daughter. As the investigations unfold, flashbacks reveal how Cinder and Ashe met, and the development of their relationship. A complication in the investigation is the involvement of a man named Lacey, who had raped Cinder when she was a thirteen-year-old girl in Vietnam.
References
1988 comics debuts
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