Dates
- Cover date
- July 1996
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Beginning · 24 pages
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.
- Untitled · 22 pages
The microwave killer strikes again, cooking a beautiful woman from the inside out. Sara is hospitalized and visited by Jake and Joe who are worried about her and have questions about the encounter at Kenneth Irons' tournament that left her partner, Michael Yee, dead. The Triads send an assassin to kill Irons for the deaths of their men but Nottingham dispatches the killer. Irons puts Nottingham through a painful ceremony to make him immune to the power of the Witchblade. Sara leaves the hospital to recover the Witchblade and tries to use it to raise Michael from the dead. She fails.