The Defenseless Dead

Publisher: Adventure
Writer: Bill Spangler, Larry Niven
Artist: Terry Tidwell
Publication date: February 1, 1991
Status: Completed
Views: 8,565
Second miniseries, following on from ARM, adapting the Larry Niven detective stories starring telekinetic ARM (Amalgamation of Regional Militia) agent Gil "the Arm" Hamilton. The Defenseless Dead who provide the story's title are "corpsicles", people who had themselves cryogenically frozen in the hopes of being eventually revived in the future, either because they suffered from medical conditions which could not yet be cured or simply in the desire of being woken in what they hoped would be a better era than their own; however, the corpsicles were now gradually being declared legally dead by the UN, so that their organs could be harvested for transplant.