Cinder and Ashe is a four issue comic book

Comic book

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 mini-series

Limited series

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 published by DC Comics

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 in 1988. The series was written by Gerry Conway

Gerry Conway

Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher and scripting the death of the character Gwen Stacy during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man...

 and drawn by José Luis García-López

José Luis García-López

José Luis García-López is a Spanish comic book artist who works in the United States of America, mostly for DC Comics. He has most recently penciled an arc in Batman Confidential, the Metal Men storyline in the 2009 Wednesday Comics weekly anthology, and, in 2011, one of the stories in The Spirit...

. The series was labelled "Suggested for Mature Readers" to indicate that its content may be inappropriate for young children.

Plot summary

The story follows the two partners in a private investigation

Private investigator

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 firm; Jacob Ashe is a U.S.

United States

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 Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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 veteran, while Cinder DuBois is the child of an African-American soldier and a Vietnamese woman. The series is set in New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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 with flashbacks to Vietnam

Vietnam

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.

Cinder and Ashe are hired by a farmer from Iowa

Iowa

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to find his kidnapped daughter. As the investigations unfold, flashbacks reveal how Cinder and Ashe met, and the development of their relationship. A complication in the investigation is the involvement of a man named Lacey--who had raped Cinder when she was a thirteen year old girl in Vietnam.