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Issue: The Tick #4

- Attribution History

Publication Date: October 1991

Issue #4
- #1
- #2
- #3
- ✓ #4
- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8 [1st Printing]
- #8 [Later Printings]
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
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Detail

Issues: #4 of 13 Issues (56 Printings)

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Variant: 4th Printing

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Publisher: Flag

New England Comics

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Pages: 44

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Price: $2.75 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): George Suarez

Notes: Comic has at least 8 printings but only the first 3 have the poster insert; 2nd Dec. 1989 $2.25 price; 3rd June 1991 $2.75 price (has an alternate red cover with an image of The Tick and had a low print run); 4th Oct. 1991 $2.75 price (5th Anniversary "Amy" copies with a print run of 500); 5th March 1992 $2.75 price; 6th (Unknown publishing data); 7th 1996 $2.75 price (10th Anniversary bullet on cover); 8th Mar. 1998 $2.95 price.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; black & white interior

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Content Items (4 total)

The Plot Thicks...

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Sagin

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

A Big Fight

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): The Tick; Oedipus [Oedipus Ashley Stevens]; Arthur; Paul the Samurai; Reginald Stevens; Amanda Stevens; Shing; Ninjas (villains); The District Manager (villain); Sagin (villain)

Synopsis: 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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 28

Notes: Tick Quick Quip of the Month: "What is this, a CONVENTION? Can't a guy wreak havok in privacy?"

Poster Insert

Illustration on Dustjacket from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): The Tick

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Centerfold poster of an interior splash page (a small Tick is menaced by the looming City).

Back Cover

Illustration on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): Amanda Stevens

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1