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"You still don't get it, do you, boy? I'm a survivor. Plain and simple. I do what I have to."
Hoyt
"Hoyt, By Himself"
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - By Himself 1
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Title: "Hoyt, By Himself"
Volume: 1
Number: 1
Cover price: $2.99
Cover date: October, 2007
Publisher: DC Comics
WildStorm Productions
Credits
Ex. Ed: Jim Lee
Writers: Dan Abnett; Andy Lanning
Pencilers: Wes Craig
Inkers: Wes Craig
Cover artists: Darick Robertson
Cover inker: Darick Robertson
Cover colorist: JD Mettler
Colorists: Randy Mayor
Letterers: Wes Abbott
Assistants: Kristy Quinn
Editors: Ben Abernathy
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"Hoyt, By Himself" is the story from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: By Himself one-shot special published by DC Comics and WildStorm Productions. The story was written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with artwork by Wesley Craig. It was colored by Randy Mayor with lettering by Wes Abbott. The story was edited by Ben Abernathy with Kristy Quinn as assistant editor. This issue shipped with an October, 2007 cover date and carries a cover price of $2.99 per copy (US).

"Hoyt, By Himself"[]

May 7th, 1972
Sheriff Hoyt stops a motorist on the highway. Prejudging the man as nothing more than a draft-dodging hippie, he decides to take out his frustration by dragging the man out of the car and beating him with the butt end of his rifle. While the man lies in the dirt bleeding, Sheriff Hoyt decides to tell him his life story.

Flashback
Hoyt's real name is actually Charlie Hewitt. In the winter of 1953 he had been serving in the U.S. armed forces stationed in Korea. Hewitt was captured by a Korean officer named Sergeant Chow and taken to a POW camp. Chow forced Hewitt to look after another POW who had been injured during the fighting. Seeing the man as sick and weak, Hewitt decided that it would be better to silence him, so he suffocated him in the middle of the night. The following day, Hewitt was moved to a transit camp in the mountains. Placed in a dungeon, he was paired off with another injured G.I. The enlisted man died of his own injuries, and Hewitt watched in horror as NKPA officers dragged the body into a slaughterhouse where it was butchered and (presumably) cooked. What remains were left behind were thrown into a bucket and tossed into Hewitt's cell. Starving, he had little choice but to eat what was provided for him. He kept one of the discarded human bones and sharpened the end of it. When Sergeant Chow entered his cell one morning to inspect him, Hewitt stabbed him in the chest with the bone. He then took Chow's rifle and shot his way to freedom. The experience gave Hewitt not only a newfound inner strength, but a grisly appetite for human flesh.

By the time Hewitt concludes his tale, he has dragged the bleeding motorist back to his family homestead. Beating him with a baseball bat, he screams at the man, declaring that he is a survivor and that if he could survive the communists, he could survive anything – with his family around him. As if on cue, Charlie's nephew Tommy "Leatherface" Hewitt emerges from behind a clothesline and finishes the motorist off with his chainsaw. Looking down at the corpse, Charlie motions to Tommy and says, "Let's eat".

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  • Chow (In flashback only)

Minor characters

  • Victim (Only appearance; dies)

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  • Korea (In flashback only)

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