#1

Synopsis

As floods threaten a small town in the southern U.S., Ku Klux Klan members round up black men for forced labor on the levees. A small white boy goes missing as a silent black man arrives. He is almost twice the size of a normal man and possesses prodigious strength. He never speaks, and presumably has arrived by what appears to be a crashed spacecraft. He drives off Klan members, and Sonny christens him Johnson.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Strange fruit #1

Credits

Script

J. G. Jones, Mark Waid

Pencils

J. G. Jones

Inks

J. G. Jones

Colours

J. G. Jones

Letters

Deron Bennett

Editor

Ian Brill

Other printings & variants

• BOOM! Ten Years Cover
• Cover B
• Cover C
• Levee Work Wraparound
• Four Color Grails Exclusive Cover
• Second Printing