The Tick 4

The Tick 4, New England Comics Press, April 1989

First printing. 1st appearance of Paul the Samurai. 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. Centerfold poster of an interior splash page. 44 pgs. B&W

• Written by Ben Edlund. 
• Art and cover by Ben Edlund and Max Banks