Comic Title: Showcase Presents Jonah Hex Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2014
On Sale Date: March 19, 2014 Direct Market Date March 19, 2014
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Direct Market Date March 19, 2014
Source: Previews, #303

Direct Market Date December 26, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #9 (#225)

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 544

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Title: "The Mark of the Demon"
Pages: 17

Feature(s):
Jonah Hex (of Earth-1)

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Penciller: Ernie Chan
Inker: Vicente Alcazar
Letterer: Ben Oda
Colorist: Liz Berube

Reprinted From:
Jonah Hex #8 (1978)

Feature Character(s)

• Jonah Hex (last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; next appearance in Jonah Hex #9)

Villain(s)

• A tribe of Kiowa indians (in flashback; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; no further appearances)
• A band of indian killers (Butch and Luke named; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Noh-Tante (dies in flashback; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; no further appearances)
• An apache chief (dies in this story; last appearance in Jonah Hex #8; no further appearances)
• Several apaches (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Count Henri D'Aubergnon (dies in this story; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; no further appearances)
• Pierre (dies in this story; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; no further appearances)
• A trapper (in flashback; no further appearances)
• White Fawn (dies in this story; last appearance in Jonah Hex #8; no further appearances)
• Laura Vanden (a kidnapped girl; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Jonah Hex (age 16; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; next appearance in Weird Western Tales #29)
• Jonah Hex (after the Civil War; last appearance in Weird Western Tales #29; next appearance in All-Star Western #10)
• White Fawn (during Jonah's scarring; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; next appearance in Jonah Hex #8)
• An apache chief (gives Jonah his scar; last appearance in Jonah Hex #7; next appearance in Jonah Hex #8)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jonah's father (in flashback)

Comments:
This story is continued from Jonah Hex #7.

The lead-in claims this story was set in the Spring of 1874. However, this story happens after Jonah's encounter with Turnbull in Virginia which occurred in Weird Western Tales #30 and was said to be 1875.

Synopsis:
Jonah Hex sets out to find Laura Vanden who has been kidnapped by a tribe of apaches. This is the same tribe to which Jonah once belonged when he was a teen. He was betrayed by the chief's son Noh-Tante and left for dead. However, Jonah survived and began searching for the tribe to get his revenge. However, the tribe had moved on, and Jonah could not find them.

In the intervening years, Jonah became a tracker and a scout. He fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. When the war ended he finally found his former tribe. To settle the argument between Hex and Noh-Tante, the chief orders trial by combat. Noh-Tante gives Jonah a faulty tomahawk to fight with, so Jonah uses a knife to kill his opponent. Jonah's actions were a violation of the rules, so the chief burned Hex's face with a red-hot tomahawk. His face was forever scarred with the mark of the demon.

Now, several years later, Jonah has returned to the tribe and is captured. The chief orders him to be burned at dawn. White Fawn, an indian girl who favored Hex, frees him at the cost of her own life. Jonah then kills the chief and flees with Laura Vanden.

On the road away from the apache camp, Jonah is captured by Henri D'Aubergnon, a bounty hunter. However, the angry apaches have followed Jonah forcing the frenchman and Hex to team up to stop them. Jonah saves the life of D'Aubergnon which convinces the frenchman to stay behind to hold off the indians while Jonah escapes. D'Aubergnon knows that he is nearly out of ammunition and faces certain death.