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BUTCHER #1
Cover Date: May 1990
Cover Price: $1.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Shea Anton Pensa (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Mike Baron |
| Art | Shea Anton Pensa |
| Lettering | Steve Haynie |
| Colors | Julia Lacquement |
| Associate editing | Katie Main |
| Editing | Mike Gold |
Feature Character(s):
- Butcher (John Butcher; first appearance; also in flashbacks preceding main story)
Supporting Character(s):
- Karen McLeach (first appearance; a Canadian traveller)
- Audrey McLeach (first appearance; her daughter)
- Tsunami II (first appearance; Butcher's sensei; in flashback preceding issue #3)
- Butcher's father (first appearance; dies in flashback)
- Sue Ellen (first appearance; Butcher's sister; in flashback)
- Butcher's grandfather (first appearance; in flashback)
Villain(s):
- Maurice "Jim" Loftus (first appearance; a rogue magnate; dies)
- Kam (first appearance; Loftus' metahuman bodyguard)
- Loftus' other henchmen (first appearance; some die)
- Namdorph Corporation employees (in flashback)
Comment(s):
- The Butcher is created by Mike Baron and Shea Anton Pensa.
Synopsis: - On a train moving through the Rocky Mountains of Canada, Native American vigilante John Butcher saves a Karen McLeach from being raped by the magnate Jim Loftus. Butcher has been after Loftus for a time since Loftus happens to be part of a criminal group, the Namdorph Corporation, responsible for the deaths of Butcher's parents. After defeating Loftus and his super-powered bodyguard Kam, Butcher promises to give Karen and her daughter Audrey a safe journey home.