Marv beats, dismembers and feeds Kevin to his pet wolf after hearing him confess to the murders, especially Goldie's murder and his obsession with eating women. They approach Roark's home and confront him about the murders and his cannibalistic actions. Wendy is also a prostitute and together they decide to go after the cardinal. Marv is able to escape the cops but not before he forces their leader to reveal Roark's name.ĭuring Marv's journey he comes across Goldie's twin sister, Wendy. Although, when the cops show up to the scene, Lucille is murdered by a corrupt cop.

He also discovers that Kevin kidnapped his parole officer, Lucille, and has eaten her hand. Marv follows the trail of clues to an abandoned farm where the serial killer, Kevin, is keeping his victims' heads as trophies. Continuing his investigation, he is led to a priest who then tells him to question the leading family in Sin City and the cardinal of the church, Roark. Before he kills the two men, he forces them to tell him who sent them. Marv goes to the bar to hide out, but two assassins come and attack him. His mother informs him that some men came by the house looking for him. Marv becomes determined to find Goldie's killer and immediately goes to his mother's house to retrieve his gun.

During this time, a serial killer is on the loose in Sin City who preys on prostitutes and eats them. Marv has become a prime suspect when he is framed for Goldie's murder. Suddenly the cop sirens grow closer and louder, which makes Marv slip out on to the streets of Sin City. He wonders why she would agree to sleep with him and he refers to her as his own personal heaven in the hell that he calls Sin City. Three hours later, Marv wakes up and finds Goldie dead. The night of her murder she and Marv got drunk, made love, and fell asleep together. However, he felt connected to Goldie and spent one night with her before her tragic death. Marv is an ex-military man and a trained professional killer so naturally framing him would be easy.

'The Hard Goodbye' begins with the protagonist, Marv, being accused of the murder of the beautiful prostitute, Goldie. The original issues were edited by Randy Stradley, and Diana Schutz is editor of the 2005 collected edition. The series was written, drawn and lettered by Frank Miller. The first episode of the comic was published as 'Sin City' in the anthology Dark Horse Presents: 5th Anniversary Special (April 1991) and starting with episode two, was published as a continuing series in Dark Horse Presents issues #51-62 (June 1991–June 1992). It was created by Frank Miller, and led to a metaseries that has been adapted into a movie. It was serialized, as 'Sin City', in the comics anthology Dark Horse Presents by Dark Horse Comics and named 'The Hard Goodbye' in the trade paperbacks. ' The Hard Goodbye' is the first story in the American Sin City Comics series. Dark Horse Presents: Fifth Anniversary Special

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