Story: "Hero Hunters Part One: Teenage Wasteland" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Gail Simone (plot, script)
Joe Prado (layouts)
Ed Benes (finishes)
Phil Balsman (letters)
Hi-Fi (colors, separations)
Harvey Richards (assistant editor)
Joan Hilty (edits)

Feature Characters:

Black Canary II (next in ...)
Oracle II (next in ...)
Huntress II (next in ...)

Guest Star:

Black Alice (first appearance, Lori Zechlin, next in Day of Vengeance #?)

Guest Appearance:

Nightwing II (in voicemail message from Nightwing Vol. 2 #100 only)

Other Characters:

Mr Zechlin (Lori's widowed father)
Dawn (a.k.a. Brighid, a friend of Lori)
Kyle (Lori's boyfriend, first appearance of all three)

Comment: This story takes place between War Games and Identity Crisis

Synopsis:

The Birds are in Dayton, Ohio, where six drug dealers have been found dead in the last two months, killed very violently. They find a teenage girl - Black Alice - with incredible mystical powers whose mother died of a drug overdose some months ago. They confront her, but it is not until a friend from school says 'sorry' for being jealous of her and for seeing her boyfriend that she backs down. Oracle calls in Doctor Fate to help the girl. She will have to answer for the deaths she's caused, but she's not a bad person.