Green Arrow #70

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Synopsis

"Reunion Tour Part 2" After Ward Brackett, the last surviving member of a rock band called The Electric Unicorns, finds himself under gun fire in his own home, Green Arrow chases down the shooter. The shooter nearly gets away, but he runs into Green Arrow's friend Jack Hammer, a large homeless man who is a former boxing champ. The man is apprehended, and everyone feels relieved that this is the end of threat to Ward until Lieutenant Cameron reveals that this man was simply a maniac, and that the other members' murders were committed by someone else. Even so, former bassist Tommy Shaeffer was injured in the shooting. Even with the attempt on his life, Brackett decides that his benefit concert must go on, and with Green Arrow and Dinah Lance running security. The two of them watch a rehearsal of Ward's concert, in which the keyboardist is scheduled to seemingly cause the singer to explode in flames, as a dramatic effect during the final song's climax. Afterward, Oliver assigns Dinah as Ward's personal bodyguard for the evening. Elsewhere, Lt. Cameron visits the Electric Unicorns' manager Phillip Kelly, having discovered that Kelly took out hefty insurance policies on each of the band members. Despite the fact that he has recently been able to collect on those policies, Kelly claims that he would make more money if the band were still alive and together than he does on the insurance. In Ward's dressing room, Dinah is confronted by his wife Juney, who is apparently jealous. Dinah warns that if Juney leaves her husband for his cheating, she loses all of her comfortable lifestyle as well as her career. Juney reminds that if Ward dies, the same thing would happen to her. Later, Dinah and Oliver survey the crowd gathered to see the show, with Jack Hammer, Marianne, and Jefferson Twodogs planted in the crowd for more security. As they watch, Lt. Cameron appears, hoping to see the conclusion to the murder mystery, noting that their suspects include a jealous wife, an agent with an insurance policy, and a disgruntled former band mate. As they view the footage of the show's opening, Green Arrow notices that the keyboardist has blood running down his hand from up his sleeve. He leaps onto the camera dolly, and has it zoom in until he can get a clear shot with his arrow. He uses an arrow to cut a cord which sends Ward falling through a trap door, and beneath it, he discovers that their pyrotechnic gear has been replaced with real explosives that would kill him. Oliver unmasks the keyboardist as being Tommy Shaeffer, the disgruntled former bassist, who has used the band's heavy makeup to pretend to replace the band's real keyboardist. Tommy confesses that his plan was to kill all the members of the band so that the audition tape he created for them when they first started would be worth huge amounts of money.