Missionary Man | |
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Created by |
Gordon Rennie Frank Quitely Garry Marshall |
Publication information | |
Publisher |
Fleetway Rebellion Developments |
Schedule | Monthly/Weekly |
Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD. |
Genre | |
Publication date | May 1993 – July 2002 |
Main character(s) | Preacher Cain |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Gordon Rennie |
Artist(s) |
Frank Quitely Garry Marshall Sean Longcroft Simon Davis Jon Beeston Jamie Grant Charles Gillespie Christian Bravery Henry Flint Trevor Hairsine Alex Ronald Colin MacNeil Dean Ormston Wayne Reynolds John Ridgway |
Reprints | |
Collected editions | |
Missionary Man | ISBN 1-84023-465-2 |
Missionary Man is British comic strip. It debuted in the Judge Dredd Megazine in May 1993 with the introductory 7-page story "Salvation At The Last Chance Saloon", illustrated by Frank Quitely. It established that tall Preacher Cain rides the Cursed Earth performing "special sermons" in the radiation-poisoned towns, tutoring the damned with a bible and his guns. In this first outing, having educated and decimated a table of gambling mutant heavyweights he rides into the sunset, tossing a bible at the surviving townspeople - which contains a thermonuclear explosive.
In 1998 the strip transitioned to the weekly 2000 AD.
All written by Gordon Rennie:
The character also makes a cameo appearance in the Judge Dredd novel Cursed Earth Asylum, by David Bishop ( Virgin Books, December 1993, ISBN 0-352-32893-2).
Some of the stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:
Missionary Man | |
---|---|
Created by |
Gordon Rennie Frank Quitely Garry Marshall |
Publication information | |
Publisher |
Fleetway Rebellion Developments |
Schedule | Monthly/Weekly |
Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD. |
Genre | |
Publication date | May 1993 – July 2002 |
Main character(s) | Preacher Cain |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Gordon Rennie |
Artist(s) |
Frank Quitely Garry Marshall Sean Longcroft Simon Davis Jon Beeston Jamie Grant Charles Gillespie Christian Bravery Henry Flint Trevor Hairsine Alex Ronald Colin MacNeil Dean Ormston Wayne Reynolds John Ridgway |
Reprints | |
Collected editions | |
Missionary Man | ISBN 1-84023-465-2 |
Missionary Man is British comic strip. It debuted in the Judge Dredd Megazine in May 1993 with the introductory 7-page story "Salvation At The Last Chance Saloon", illustrated by Frank Quitely. It established that tall Preacher Cain rides the Cursed Earth performing "special sermons" in the radiation-poisoned towns, tutoring the damned with a bible and his guns. In this first outing, having educated and decimated a table of gambling mutant heavyweights he rides into the sunset, tossing a bible at the surviving townspeople - which contains a thermonuclear explosive.
In 1998 the strip transitioned to the weekly 2000 AD.
All written by Gordon Rennie:
The character also makes a cameo appearance in the Judge Dredd novel Cursed Earth Asylum, by David Bishop ( Virgin Books, December 1993, ISBN 0-352-32893-2).
Some of the stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks: