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The Clockwork Hero

by Christine Nightstar

In the basement beneath a busy Gotham City deli, a highly advanced, human-like clockwork man built in the mid-nineteenth century is disturbed from his century-long sleep. Trenton “Ticks” Avery soon becomes one of the Deltonio family, even as he also begins to discover that his creator had built in amazing mechanisms allowing him to evolve physically, mentally, and emotionally. And with some of these new abilities Ticks inadvertently becomes Gotham’s newest crime-fighter, Clockwork. But with newfound fame comes danger to his adoptive family, even as an old villain called the Clock seeks him as a prize! Guest starring Batman and Platinum of the Metal Men!

• Chapter 1: Setting the Works

• Chapter 2: Winding the Spring

• Chapter 3: More Than Machine

• Chapter 4: Beating the Clock

• Epilogue: Family Dynamics

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