TITLE: Jon Sable Freelance vol. 1, Issue #5
YEAR: October 1983
COMPANY: First Comics
Created/Written/Illustrated:Mike Grell
Colorist: Janice Cohen
Letterer: Peter Iro
Editor: Mike Gold
If you really want to discover Mike Grell’s awesome work outside of DC Comics, his work on First Comics “Jon Sable Freelance” is one of his greatest works in his oeuvre.
With issue #5, the storyline of Jon Sable’s origin continues as Sable has took revenge on those responsible for his wife and children’s death.
Now incarcerated for exacting his brand of justice on those responsible for the death of his family, Sable gets a chance to get out when another military man gives him an opportunity to take on a risky mission of hunting terrorists.
Of course, how many missions will Sable end up doing? Needless to say, this issue focuses on two missions which Jon Sable takes part in. The storyline serving what he did with his time in Africa and how he became a hunter and the man he is today.
While the first two origin issues were magnificent, this third storyline is good, not great, but at least goes into Jon Sable, who’s life had changed since his athlete and days of being a family man. Now, he’s a hardened hunter in Africa.
I supposed that is what makes Jon Sable Freelance much different from The Punisher. With Jon Sable Freelance, he’s a man who felt his life ended on the day his wife and kids were killed. He misses them but knowing those good times in his life, are now memories. And this new life moving forward, people want him for one thing, to be a hunter that goes after terrorists.
So, we’ll see how things end up for Jon Sable in the fourth and final part of “The Origin”!