The Savage Gang Smasher

A hero once stalked the streets of Bohemia City.

Tommy Thornton gave his body, his looks and his future to a nation at war and then they abandoned him when they realised they had created a monster, not the super-soldier they could use as the rallying cry for the nation.

Taking the name 'Gang Smasher', Tommy returned to his home town, and the deprived area of Hatchet Row to fight the ever-burgeoning gangs that had turned the district into a pit of despair, depravity and squalor, fighting the good fight without any praise or acknowledgement until the world's greatest super-team, Bastion, came calling. Then, after Tommy kills a vile, murderous super-villain, they, too, abandon him.

Shunned, held to a promise never to play the hero again, Tommy diminishes until he comes to the aid of a young BCPD cop, Barbara Montoya, daughter of an old friend. In the aftermath, she persuades him to take up his old mantle to fight a new kind of gang. Gangs using deadly, temporary supers with ties to Gang Smasher's dark, distant past.

Along with Regan, a polymath ex-lover of Montoya, the three of them chase down the architect of chaos bringing ruin to the Row, but it may cost all of them more than their lives.

They could pay with their humanity.