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Sunday Trade: Wolfpack

Wolfpack written by Larry Hama, pencils by Ron Wilson, inks by Whilce Portacio & Kyle Baker, letters by Joe Rosen

Oh man. This one. So let me lay out what your '87 eight bucks got yhou. A story involving a group of teenagers from the South Bronx. Slippery Sam (Jew), Slag (Black), Sharon (Black/Vietnamese), Rafael (Puerto Rican) and Wheels (White boy in a wheelchair). What do these five inner-city youths have in common? They're all ninja's in training by Mr. Mack. Who is a Black man who learned ninjitsu from a Chinese woman while in the Navy. To fight an ancient ninja cabal called the Nine. Who were a countering force for the Ten Righteous Men of Hebrew myth. Yeah. I know...

I mean man. Larry Hama and ninjas. And though I can't recall seeing anything with them recently the Wolfpack is part of regular Marvel continuity. But still. So crazy. Though seeing that the editor for the book was Ann Nocenti some of that crazy begins to make a little more sense...

Also I'm not that into the pencils but Portacio and Baker on inks? And I'll be honest. I would pay good money for a Wolfpack book set in current Marvel by Nocenti and Baker...