Grifter Shi 1 NM Crossover Image Tucci Jim Lee Travis Charest Brandon Choi 1st print

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Grifter Shi (1996) #1

Published Mar 1996 by Image/Crusade.

Brandon Choi writer
Jim Lee and Travis Charest art.

This two-issue, intercompany crossover pairs Grifter and Shi in a battle against rogue Japanese industrialist Aritomo Omura, and examines all three characters struggling with what it means to be warriors in a world that has no use for warriors anymore.

Omura has devoted his life to ending threats to the sovereignty of Japan and seeks to restore the glory of Nippon by striking at the US with a stolen nuclear weapon. Ana Ishinkawa, trained in the ways of the Kyoto sohei, becomes the embodiment of Shi, Japanese for death, and embarks on a path of revenge following the murder of her family by the yakuza Arashi. And Cole Cash, a member of WildC.A.T.s and former Team 7 operative, disillusioned with the corruption within the intelligence community, adopts the Grifter persona and using his military training and crack shot abilities, strikes out on his own as a mercenary.

A company crossover between two mid-’90s properties, Wildstorm’s masked mercenary, Grifter (created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee), and Image Comics blade-wheeling Samurai babe, Shi (created by Peter Gutierrez and Billy Tucci). The story has Grifter coming to Japan, at the behest of a secret inner circle of the Japanese government, to help investigate terrorists who may’ve aquired an atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Shi becomes embroiled in an attempt to steal a ceremonial picture, the possessor of which, tradition dictates, gets to demand a favor from the Emperor. Needless to say, the two matters are intertwined.

Near mint, 1st print. Bag&Board, Been sitting boxed for 30 years, one owner!