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SKIN GRAFT: THE ADVENTURES OF A TATTOOED MAN #2
Cover Date: August 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):
Supporting Character(s):
- Terry (first appearance; John’s assistant)
- Yuko (first appearance; a Japanese tattoo model)
Villain(s):
- Tattooed Man II (last in Justice League Quarterly #10/4; behind the scenes)
- Ott (as a tattoo only)
- Mizoguchi Kenji (first appearance, last in flashback in issue #3, a tattooed killer, name revealed in issue #3)
- Mizoguchi’s henchmen (first appearance of both; both absorbed into John’s body)
Other Character(s):
- Larry (first appearance; a photographer)
- Tony (first appearance; Larry’s assistant)
- Cindy
- Ursula Carroll
- Lucy Owens (first appearance of all three; tattoo models; all die)
- Inspector Elliot (first appearance; a police officer; dies)
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:
A couple of years have passed and John Oakes is now a succesful tattoo artist and model. One day he gets an invitation from the famous Japanese Irezumi (a Japanese tattoo art) Master Kobo, who has sent his beautiful granddaughter Yuko to bring John with her to Japan. Before that happens, however, a Police Inspector named Eliot approaches John, who gets shocked to hear that two of his clients, both beautiful female tattoo models, have been murdered and their tattoos surgically removed. John rushes home to another of his clients named Cindy to warn her, but is too late as he interrupts her three murderers just as they are cutting of her skin. In the ensuing fight, John once again absorbs two of his opponents, while Inspector Eliot is killed by the leader of the murdering trio. The villain then disappears with the stolen tattooed skin. A shaken John Oakes agrees to follow Yuko to Kyoto.