Issue Description

A History of Violence begins with two hitch-hikers asking for a lift. The driver and his accompalice proceeds to shoot both of them, and steal their wallets. Both of the men arrive at Tom Mckenneys soda shop, and decide to rob it. During the course of their attemptd robbing, Tom shoots one of them with their own gun, and knocks the other out stone cold.

The domino effect of his vigilantism is a huge amount of media attention and being labelled as a hero, when all he wants is peace and quiet. The other effect of this is the public notoriety he gains. It draws the attention of an old mob boss (Torrino). Torrino begins to stalk him throughout the town with his large black car, and eventually comes inside the soda shop asking to speak with Tom. He does, and he implies that he knows something about Tom's past, to the annoyance of Tom's wife. He also brandishes toms missing finger, which he has kept in a small vial. He is kicked out of the shop by both Tom and his wife, all the while Tom insisting that he has never seen either of them in his life before.

A History of Violence (1997)

Publisher

Vertigo

Volume Description

A History Of Violence follows the story of a small town soda shop owner by the name of Tom Mckenna. In an unfortunate turn of events, two wanted killers stumble into Tom's shop demanding money and have every intention of killing Tom. A couple of seconds later one of the killers is dead and the other is intensive care. Tom becomes an instant hero and is thrown into the public eye. Too bad for Tom the past never dies, and his deep dark past is revealed, and the law-abiding, mild mannered Tom Mckenney turns out to be some much more...

Originally published by DC through Paradox Press (under Paradox Graphic Mystery) in May 1997. This second edition was published through DC's Vertigo imprint. In 2011 a new edition was published under Vertigo Crime.

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