''Hammerlocke'' is a

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nine issue

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written by

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and

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, with artwork by

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and Wilson.

Premise

In the near future, a space elevator called the Olympus Starbridge becomes the battleground between the world government and a radical environmentalist group. Its creator, the cyborg Archer Locke, known as Hammerlocke, is called out of

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when his daughter is kidnapped by Hugo Tharn, leader of the ecoterrorists and a man determined to destroy the Olympus Starbridge and all it stands for.

Collected editions

The series was scheduled for a

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re-release in a trade paperback format with additional material added by the creators but this never happened.

References

1992 comics debuts DC Comics limited series {{DC-Comics-stub