Missionary Man (comics)

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Missionary Man
Missionary Man (comics).jpg
Cover of Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2, 29 (29 May 1993), art by Frank Quitely
Created by Gordon Rennie
Frank Quitely
Garry Marshall
Publication information
Publisher Fleetway
Rebellion Developments
ScheduleMonthly/Weekly
FormatsOriginal material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) Judge Dredd Megazine and 2000 AD .
Genre
Publication dateMay  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.

Contents

In 1998 the strip transitioned to the weekly 2000 AD .

Stories

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).

Collected editions

Some of the stories have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks:

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