The Hard goodbye (Sin city yarn)

SinCityCharacter
character_name = Hard Goodbye
comic_color=background:#000
publisher = Dark Horse Comics
debut = Dark Horse Presents
creators = Frank MIller
full_name = The Hard Goodbye (Originally Sin City)
affiliation = Marv
Goldie and Wendy
status = 13 Issues (episodes)
portrayer = Mickey Rourke
Jaime King

The Hard Goodbye is the very first Sin City story and first published as Sin City in Dark Horse Presents issues #51-62 and 5th Anniversary Special (June 1991–June 1992), and reprinted as Sin City (The Hard Goodbye) (January 1993). Frank MIller wrote and drew this neo-noir comic. The comic was also adapted into the 2005 film "Sin City"

Episode One

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #51 and the debut of the Sin City series appeared with part one of thirteen in The Hard Goodbye and only eight pages long.

The Story firsts starts when Marv is approached by Goldie in a saloon and they have sex in a hotel, three hours later when Marv wakes up he finds Goldie dead. He gets ready and thinks about what happened and how he was stone drunk when she was murdered but then he hears cop cars coming which tells him someone else knows she's dead.

Episode Two

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #52 occurring only a minute after Episode One and Part Two of Thirteen and 12 pages long.

The Police are running up the stairs to the room Marv and Goldie's dead body is in. The cops are more like SWAT with body armour and shields, they only use them because of Basin City's high crime rate. He takes his medicine and the Police knock at the door, he bashes the door down knocking over about 2 cops and as they are attempting to shoot him he jumps down the gap in the middle of the winding stairs then grabs a banister and swings himself onto that corridor then runs until jumping out the window. Luckily he lands into a huge pile of filled garbage bags but a cop car is approaching and Marv jumps onto the bonnet breaks the window with a kick, gets the cops out the car and drives it away, he drives it into the river and gets out, left swimming in the river, while doing this he decides to kill Goldie's murderer.

Episode Three

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #53 occurring seconds after Episode Two and also Part Three of Thirteen and 25 pages long.

Marv knows the cops will be waiting for him to re-surface so swims into a giant pipe and surfaces in the sewers, climbs out via manhole and sneaks through the city, avoiding cops, until he reaches Lucille's apartment. She is only wearing panties as she has been in bed but Marv breaking in through the window woken her up, she has her gun in case it was a burglar but then realises it was Marv, he tells her everything that happened mainly and gets angry when she says it's just very small he then shouts at her telling her its very big and he's in the middle of it. He tells her what he's going to do before running out to his Mom's house to get Gladys, his first gun, named after a sister at school, but his Marv's Mothercatches him. She tells him that people were looking for him and Marv starts to tell his Mom what happened.

Episode Four

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #54 occurring probably the same night as Episode Three, Part Four of Thirteen and eight pages long.

He's thinking about how none of it fits together and why anyone would kill Goldie, he walks down a back alley and is confronted by someone who is not letting him in this place so he hurts him and is greeted by Kadie who says that he is new. He enters Kadie's Bar, where he receives free drinks. Nancy Callahan is dancing and he finds Weevil, threatens him into spread the word that Marv has been hanging around bars mourning Goldie's death and gives him cash for it. He is then offered a drink by Shellie.

Episode Five

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #55 occurring five or ten minutes adter the end of Episode Four, Part Five of Thirteen and nine pages long.

Marv watches Nancy Callahan dance and then someone puts a gun behind his back, it's two hit men but Marv takes it as a joke saying he has a nice coat as the put a gun up the him and make him exit the bar. He whacks one of a wall and steals his gun then shoots the other one's hand. He threatens one for his coat, one called Stanthen shoots his stomach or chest and asks him who sent them because he knows they didn't kill Goldie. He admits that Telly Stern sent them, he shoots his head, killing him. He thinks he sees Goldie but it's just because he hasn't taken his medicine, without it he gets confused.

Episode Six

Published in Dark Horse Presents Issue #56 occurring the same night or early the next morning after Episode Five, Part Six of Thirteen and eight pages long.

Marv tries to sleep but he can't so he decides to follow up his leads and while trying to get information kills three people, punches one to death, drowns one in a toilet and bashes the other's head off the ground. The he goes to church to make a confession, in the confession stand he confesses about his murders and threatens The Priest to tell him about the other confessions and if he knows anything. The priest says "Roark" (referring to Roark Family#Cardinal Roark