Hal Banks
Created by Ed Brubaker

His father split when he was eight, and he's never really gotten over it. Now, surprisingly downbeat comic book eye HAL BANKS makes a half-assed living as a half-assed gumshoe. He doesn't seem to have much of a life. His ex-wife left him because she felt he was "always lost somewhere." He's rarely in touch with his older brother, Dennis. He got in a scrape over a "drunk and diorderly" a few months back, and he's been doing freebies for social services lately as part of his plea bargain.Lost in reverie, tailing some insecure fat guy's wife, social services dumps a case and an eight-year old kid in his lap. The job? Find the kid's missing dad.

Hal's only appearance was serialized in Dark Horse Presents in 1995.

COMICS

• DARK HORSE PRESENTS
  (1995, Dark Horse)
  Serialized over three issues
  Written by Ed Brubaker
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• "Here and Now, Part 1" (April 1995, DHP #96)
• "Here and Now, Part 2" (May 1995, DHP #97)
• "Here and Now, Part 3" (June 1995, DHP #98)

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