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SKIN GRAFT: THE ADVENTURES OF A TATTOOED MAN #1
Cover Date: July 1993
Cover Price: $2.50
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Cover Credits:
Photograph: Gavin Wilson
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Credits:
| Story | Jerry Prosser |
| Art | Warren Pleece |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Warren Pleece |
| Assistant editing | Shelly Roeberg |
| Editing | Karen Berger |
Feature Character(s):
- Tattooed Man II (John Oakes; first appearance, also in flashback preceding main story)
Supporting Character(s):
- John’s father (first appearance; in flashback)
Villain(s):
- Tattooed Man I (in flashback in between Green Lantern Vol. 2 #144 and Green Lantern Vol. 3 #2)
- Ott (first appearance, a violent prisoner, absorbed into John’s body)
Other Character(s):
- Doctor D (first appearance, a prison doctor)
Comment(s):
- Jonathan Shaw and Richie Montgomery are credited for cover tattoo work.
- The entire miniseries is told in flashbacks, but only the character appearances preceding the main story are listed as “flashbacks” per se.
Synopsis:
Small-time criminal John Oakes is a newcomer in prison. A tattoo he once got from his hated father, ignites an interest in one of his fellow inmates – Green Lantern’s enemy Abel Tarrant, a.k.a. the Tattooed Man, the villain with living tattoos. Tarrant becomes John’s protector in jail and teaches him everything he knows about the art of tattoos. Furthermore, he finds John to be the perfect model for his greatest artwork ever. John gets his entire body filled with Tarrant’s tattoos, but he does not even begin to suspect the consequences of this until he gets into a death fight with another inmate named Ott... and involuntarily absorbs him into his own body. Stuck with Ott as a tattoo on his arm, Oakes leaves prison with Tarrant’s goodbye phrase ringing in his head – “I have a deal with my friend... and he wants you, man. On my skin, punk, you’re burnt! Dead!”