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Can we fix it? Yes, we can!

After a break of a few years, I dug out my comic book collection that I keep stored in boxes at the back of the closet. When we immigrated here almost five years ago, they got shipped by sea in a moving both with the other stuff that we brought in.

Damn if I knew where some comic books that I am absolutely certain I have in my collection are now. A whole bunch of them just disappeared without a trace. Among these losses is the first four-issue "Damage Control" miniseries. "Damage Control" was a Marvel comic book depicting a construction company that the authorities call in to repair the buildings and other structures that the superheroes and -villains destroy during their frequent battles. If I could just find the damn thing somewhere, I would immediately scan a few select panels from the first issue and post them to this blog, for the reasons which are hopefully obvious once I explain what that issue was about.

The story is told from the point of view of the main character, a suit who comes to work for the company in his first day. We quickly get to meet the other main characters and learn that they are nowhere as formal in their attitude around the office in the famous Flatiron building. The situation in Manhattan is chaotic because the major superheroes are fighting a giant robot that is on rampage. Eventually, Spider-Man sneaks inside the robot and turns it off, making the robot collapse and fall down. As a result of this mishap, the robot lands on the World Trade Center twin towers, which collapse into a pile of rubble.

The Mayor of New York is desperate and calls in the Damage Control to clean up the situation. The company construction workers, led by their leemarvinesque foreman Lenny, get to work and swiftly rebuild the twin towers. In the last panel of the issue, Lenny looks at the rebuilt twin towers looming in the distance, where one of the towers is slightly off from the middle up. "Oh well, close enough" he notes, and the story comes to the end.

Something tells me that this story is not likely to be soon collected into a trade paperback. Perhaps some other blogger who is also into comics and happens to own this issue would like to scan and post the relevant panels.

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