Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade

Former Las Vegas showgirl Martha Chainey is a statuesque woman of color with a penchant for martial arts. Done with the spotlight and the forty-pound headdresses, Martha has forgone the usual path of becoming arm candy and instead built a career as a courier of off-the-books money—cold, hard cash.

When a former colleague with a more legitimate line of work asks her to discreetly recover $10 million in stolen funds, Martha is naturally on the case. The mission takes her across California and through more than a few mooks, but will her head-slamming sleuthing skills be enough to recover the money?

Cold Hard Cash brings one of crime writer Gary Phillips’s most memorable heroines, Martha Chainey, from novels to comics. Created by Gary Phillips and brought to life by Adriana Melo, John Kalisz, and Tom Napolitano, this collection gathers issues #1–5 of Cold Hard Cash, originally released digitally through Comixology Originals and published in print for the first time by ABLAZE.