Dates
- Cover date
- April 1989
- Pages
- 44
Editions and covers (8)
Copies of #4 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original editionSource ↗
- 3rd printing
Third Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 4th printing
Fourth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 5th printing
Fifth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 6th printing
Sixth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 7th printing
Seventh Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page - 8th printing
Eighth Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- A Big Fight · 28 pages
Tick and Oedipus are attacked at her parents' dinner party by a group of ninjas. After Oedipus is injured, Tick has a crisis of sanity and decides the best thing to do is destroy Ninja World, which he does. Conflict ensues over the Thorn of Destiny and Tick comes close to losing it until Arthur shows up to make sense of a few things. Paul the Samurai trails his enemy Sagin from Japan and prepares to take him down with a loaf of deadly French bread.
Reprinted in
The Tick Omnibus (1990), The Tick: The Naked City (1996), The Tick: The Complete Edlund (2008)