Astro City, book 4: The Tarnished Angel
Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson et Alex Ross1998

It's only Kiefer Square... a run down eyesore of tenements and lost hopes, the home of petty criminals, down-and-outers, hired muscle and worse. And nobody cares — not the cops, not the city, and certainly not the super-heroes that soar above Astro City, making the world safe for everyone else.

So, when someone starts killing the small-time super-villains of Kiefer Square, it falls to one man to do something about it. Steeljack, a.k.a. the Steel-Jacketed Man. Just out of prison, he wants nothing more than a straight job, a place to sleep and three square meals a day.

He's not smart. He's not brave. And he doesn't want the job. But he has something the people of Kiefer Square desperately need.

He's hard to kill.

He'll have to be.
(collects Astro City vol. 2 #14–20)