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Amalgam Comics: DC Comics # 9- Generation Hex

  • Years ago, Jono Hex’s (Jonah Hex and Marvel’s Jonathan Starsmore) family came to the town of Humanity where they were shunned. The town doctor refused to help Jono’s mother go into labour who died along with a baby girl

  • The father who had become drunk in subsequent time, was burned to death when delinquent children burned down the Hex home

  • Jono is a Malform which would later come to be known as mutants. He and other Malforms were forced to become outlaws by society

  • Takes place around the 1870s in the American Wild West

  • Hex’s group includes Madam Banshee, Johnny Random, Skinhunter, White Whip, Retribution, and the Trigger twins Northstar and Aurora

  • Marshal ‘Bat’ Trask has a bounty on Generation Hex. He doesn’t know that he himself is a mutant. Generation Hex are chased across the Sonoran by Trask’s Razormen

  • Gen Hex terrorizes Humanity and stage a scene where Jono becomes the saviour by running the Malforms out

  • The people ask him to be their sheriff and he makes them dress up like Malforms so his group doesn’t attack them but really Gen Hex just need to pass through

  • It was a clever ruse to stall the Razormen as they slaughter Humanity for mistaking them as Malforms 

  • Jono laughs all the way to Mexico