Witchblade
#1
(November 1995)
Image,
1995 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 3.55 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Image Comics Inc.
- Brand
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Image
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- Len Wein (credited) (editor); Brian Selzer (credited) (associate editor); Peter Steigerwald (credited) (design); John Nguyen (credited) (production); Raul Arroyo (credited) (production)
[no title indexed]
Witchblade / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Michael Turner (signed as Michael Turner)
- Inks
- Michael Turner (signed as Michael Turner)
- Colors
- Brian Haberlin (signed as
BRIAN :.) - Letters
- Dennis Heisler; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Saga Begins...
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; adventure
- Characters
- Witchblade [Sara Pezzini] (featured) (first appearance of Sara Pezzini as Witchblade Bearer)
- Reprints
-
in Witchblade (Splitter, 1996 series) #1 [Presse-Ausgabe] (1996) -
in Witchblade (Juniorpress, 1996 series) #1 (1996) -
in The Witchblade Collected Edition (Image, 1996 series) #1 (July 1996) - in American Entertainment: Encore Edition of Witchblade (Image, 1997 series) #2 (April 1997) [interior double splash page image with the background recolored]
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in Witchblade (Editora Globo, 1997 series) #1 (Setembro 1997) - in Witchblade (Splitter, 1998 series) #1 (1998)
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in Witchblade (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) #1/1999 ([januar] 1999) - in Top Cow Classics in Black and White: Witchblade (Image, 2000 series) #1 (February 2000) [cover in black and white]
- in Image Firsts: Witchblade (Image, 2010 series) #1 (April 2010) [cover], #1 (April 2010) [image under credits is from the cover]
- in The Complete Witchblade (Image, 2020 series) #1 (March 2020)
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Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover
[no title indexed]
Witchblade / comic story / 24 pages
- Script
- David Wohl (credited) (script, co-plot); Brian Haberlin (credited) (co-plot); Michael Turner (credited) (co-plot); Christina Z (credited) (writing assists)
- Pencils
- Michael Turner (credited)
- Inks
- D-Tron (credited); Nathan Cabrera (credited) (ink assists); Viet Truong (credited) (ink assists); John DiRito (assists)
- Colors
- Nathan Cabrera (credited); J. D. Smith (credited as Jonathan D. Smith) (colors, computer colors)
- Letters
- Dennis Heisler (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New York City, 5:45 p.m.
- Genre
- crime; fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense; adventure
- Characters
- Lloyd Drexler (supporting) (first appearance of Lloyd Drexler); Sal Gallo (villain) (first appearance of Silvio Gallo); Kenneth Irons (villain) (first appearance of Kenneth Irons); Jake McCarthy (supporting) (first appearance of Jake McCarthy); Ian Nottingham (antagonist) (first appearance of Ian Nottingham); Joe Siry (supporting) (first appearance of Lt. Joe Siry); Witchblade [Ms. Fortran; Sara Pezzini] (featured) (as Detective Sara Pezzini); Michael Yee (death) (supporting) (first appearance of Michael Yee, death of Michael Yee); Hugh Selzer (villain, first appearance); Sofie (first appearance); Sam Tabb (first appearance); Blitz (first appearance, villain); Tony Cugliani (first appearance, villain)
- Synopsis
- Police officer Sara Pezzini and her partner Michael Yee uncover intel about something big going down at the Rialto. Businessman Kenneth Irons and his bodyguard Nottingham are offering paying attendees a chance to try on a mystic gauntlet--the Witchblade. Irons' men catch Michael lurking about outside and prepare to execute him. Sara leaps to the rescue but both she and Michael are shot. Wounded and reaching out for any weapon she can use, Sara comes into contact with the Witchblade which grafts onto her hand as she begins to blast the bad guys. Sara clears the room but Michael dies.
- Reprints
- in Witchblade (Splitter, 1996 series) #1 (1996) which is reprinted
- in Witchblade (Splitter, 1998 series) #1 (1998)
- in Witchblade (Juniorpress, 1996 series) #1 (1996)
- in Wizard Ace Edition #9: Witchblade #1 (Top Cow; Wizard, 1996 series) #9 (1996)
- in The Witchblade Collected Edition (Image, 1996 series) #1 (July 1996)
- in Witchblade (Editora Globo, 1997 series) #1 (Setembro 1997)
- in Witchblade (Hjemmet / Egmont, 1999 series) #1/1999 ([januar] 1999)
- in Top Cow Classics in Black and White: Witchblade (Image, 2000 series) #1 (February 2000) [in black and white]
- in Witchblade: Movie Edition (Image, 2000 series) #1 (August 2000)
- in Image Firsts: Witchblade (Image, 2010 series) #1 (April 2010)
- in The Complete Witchblade (Image, 2020 series) #1 (March 2020)
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