The Villains of Harlem Vol. One

On a wet Harlem night, Ellis Rook, a man with a grudge who can drain electricity into a harness he wears, gets a black envelope stamped with a broken crown. It leads him to the basement of a shuttered theater, where Silas Thorne, the Crownmaker, is recruiting a crew. Thorne wears an adaptive crown that controls every machine he has tagged, and his plan is simple: cut the lights on a Harlem block, then sell the neighborhood his private network as the only way to turn them back on.

His recruits each want something. Celeste Wynn, the illusion-weaving thief known as Lady Glass, wants leverage. Gideon Bell, the armored powerhouse Iron Psalm, wants a fight worth winning. Mara Quill, the Collector, wants Thorne's secret archive. Then Ellis finds out his old home is on the target list.

As elevators stall and doors lock, neighbors organize, Nia and the Ghetto Superheroes of Harlem close in, and the crew begins to crack. Loyalty, greed, and conscience collide in a showdown at the Halcyon hub, where the crown itself may break.

A companion story to The Ghetto Superheroes of Harlem, this full-color graphic novel introduces a gallery of villains whose choices are as dangerous as their powers.

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