(June 1997)
Image,
1996 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 2.95 USD; 4.10 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1997-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Image Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Top Cow Productions, Inc.; Image [together]
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- David Wohl (credited) (editor); Sonia Im (credited) (associate editor); Peter Steigerwald (credited) (design); Nick Chun (credited as Nicholas Chun) (production); Raul Arroyo (credited) (production); Mike Rhee (credited) (production); Brian Green (credited) (production)
Issue Notes
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
Witchblade / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- David Finch (credited) (signed as
FINCH) - Inks
- Matt Banning (credited as Batt) (signed as
BATT) - Colors
- J. D. Smith (credited as Jonathan D. Smith) (signed as
JD Smith) - Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Peter Steigerwald (credited) (design); Annie Skiles (credited) (design)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; historical; adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Annabella Altavista (origin) (featured) (1st cover appearance of Annabella Altavista)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- armor; horses; ladies on horseback; swords
in 
Annabella Altavista
Witchblade / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- David Finch (credited) (plot, script); David Wohl (credited) (script); Christina Z (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- David Finch (credited) (pages 1-7, 14-22); Billy Tan (credited) (pages 8-13)
- Inks
- Matt Banning (credited as Batt) (pages 1, 7, 14, 15, 17-20, 22); Joe Weems (credited as Joe Weems V) (pages 2-5, 16, 21); Billy Tan (credited) (pages 8-12); D-Tron (credited) (page 13); John Livesay (credited as Livesay) (page 6); Victor Llamas (credited) (assists); Marco Galli (credited) (assists)
- Colors
- J. D. Smith (credited as Jonathan D. Smith); Tyson Wengler (credited)
- Letters
- Dennis Heisler (credited); Robin Spehar (credited) (assists); Robin Spehar (credited) (assists)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Kingdom of Sicily. 1213 A.D.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; historical; adventure; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Annabella Altavista (origin) (featured) (1st appearance of Annabella Altavista; 1st Annabella Altavista as Witchblade); Amadeo; Signor Raimondo (villain, death); Signor Bertrando (villain); Emperor Gualtiero (villain, death); Corrado (villain)
- Synopsis
- When Annabella is sexually assaulted by the priest who is supposed to be acting as her guardian, it is revealed that she carries a birthmark identifying her as the next queen of Sicily. Raimondo flees to Emperor Gualtiero and tells him this piece of news as he promises to procure him entrance to the island monastery where Annabella is staying. When Annabella witnesses the monks disfiguring themselves in trying to wield a mysterious gauntlet, she takes up the Witchblade herself and defends her home from Gualtiero's attacking forces.
- Reprints
-
in Image Special (Juniorpress, 1997 series) #6 (1997) -
in Tales of the Witchblade Collected Editions (Image, 1998 series) #1 (May 1998) - in The Complete Witchblade (Image, 2020 series) #1 (March 2020)
-
- Keywords
- attempted rape; destiny; heirs to the throne; horses; Italy; lineage; monasteries; monks; sexual assault; Sicily; The Catholic Church; Western Europe
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