Cinder and Ashe
{{Short description|1988 comic book mini-series}}
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| image = Cinder&Ashe1.jpg
| caption = Cover to Cinder and Ashe #1.
| schedule = Monthly
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| limited = y
| publisher = DC Comics
| date = May - August 1988
| issues = 4
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| writers = Gerry Conway
| artists = José Luis García-López
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| colorists = Joe Orlando
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| subcat=DC Comics
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Cinder and Ashe is a four issue comic book mini-series published by American company DC Comics in 1988.{{cite web |url=http://www.comics.org/series/3579/covers/ |title=Cinder and Ashe |accessdate=2009-10-23 |publisher=The Grand Comics Database}} The series was written by Gerry Conway and drawn by José Luis García-López. 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 firm; Jacob Ashe is a U.S. Vietnam War veteran, while Cinder DuBois is the child of an African-American soldier and a Vietnamese woman.Cinder and Ashe #1 (May 1988) The series is set in New Orleans, Louisiana with flashbacks to Vietnam.
Cinder and Ashe are hired by a farmer from Iowa 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.