The World's Greatest Superheroes Part 3: The Disco Disappearances
It’s 1978, and what’s deadlier than — disco ? A strange, beautiful woman is abducting young men from popular discothèques around Metropolis. For what purpose? Where does she take them? No one knows, but street-level superhero Jefferson Pierce – a.k.a. The Black Lightning – is on the case. When the Dark Knight Detective’s teen sidekick Robin (in his civilian identity of Dick Grayson ) is also abducted by the mysterious mademoiselle, Batman joins Black Lightning in the quest for the missing men. The Disco Disappearances introduce the first original villains in the World’s Greatest Superhero universe – Dr. Giles Manning, and his unwilling assistant Ella . A catastrophic fire at Dr. Manning’s private clinic leaves the brilliant surgeon paralyzed and badly scarred, and likewise disfigures the once-beautiful Ella. Manning is so damaged by the accident that he is constrained to a bizarre life-support mechanism which boasts a tank-like body, a single sinuous metal claw , and a red-wigged ...