D.P.7 #13

· Play Press

🌐 Italian edition · synopsis shown in English

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D.P.7 #13 ('New Management') is the pivotal issue in which the Clinic for Paranormal Research, the series' central institutional setting, begins its post-corruption reorganization after the removal of its villainous director Voigt — a turning point that reshapes the entire cast's circumstances for the remainder of the series. The issue introduces a cluster of new characters simultaneously, including Scrap Iron (John Rost), Craig LaGraves, Ms. Newhouse, Bazooka, Juris Ziegler, and 'Orv' Upham, making it one of the densest single-issue debut installments in the New Universe line. It also delivers a morally charged story beat — one of Randy O'Brien's autonomous antibody creatures kills the villain Dexter Charne, raising the kind of uncomfortable ethical question about power and consequence that distinguished D.P.7 from conventional superhero fare of its era. The Play Press edition catalogued here is the Italian-language reprint, produced by Rome-based Play Press as part of its 16-issue Italian run of the series starting in 1989, which brought the New Universe concept to Italian newsstands for the first time.

In D.P.7 #13, the fragile alliance at the Clinic fractures as internal corruption threatens to unravel everything. When Dave and Randy expose Voigt’s misconduct, the staff tries to rebuild—only for Dexter Charne to quietly move in, aided by Tracy Speck, setting the stage for a deadly confrontation. Written by Mark Gruenwald and illustrated by Paul Ryan, with inks by Danny Bulanadi and colors by Paul Becton, this issue sees tensions explode in a shocking moment of violence, culminating in a sudden, irreversible end for Charne—delivered not by a weapon, but by one of Randy’s own antibodies. The cover, also by Paul Ryan, captures the moment’s intensity with stark, focused detail.

writer Mark Gruenwald · artist Paul Ryan · inker Danny Bulanadi · colorist Paul Becton · cover Paul Ryan

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History

D.P.7 was created by writer Mark Gruenwald and penciler Paul Ryan, who developed the series together while wrapping up their collaboration on Squadron Supreme — Ryan later recalled that the two treated the cast 'as if they were people we knew and cared about.' The series launched in November 1986 as one of eight debut titles in Marvel's New Universe imprint, Jim Shooter's 25th-anniversary initiative to build a shared universe grounded in realistic consequences rather than mythology or magic. Gruenwald deliberately engineered the cast to differ from every other team book he had studied, and D.P.7 was the only New Universe title to maintain a fully stable creative team — Gruenwald, Ryan, colorist Paul Becton, and (from issue #10 onward) inker Danny Bulanadi — throughout its run. The Italian Play Press reprint series ran from 1989 to 1990 and was part of Play Press's broader effort to introduce Marvel material to Italian readers at a moment when superhero comics were re-emerging in Italian newsstands after years of scarcity.

Trivia · 8 facts

Story title: 'New Management' — the issue marks the institutional restructuring of the Clinic for Paranormal Research following the exposure of Voigt's corrupt leadership.
Written by Mark Gruenwald; penciled and inked by Paul Ryan; inked by Danny Bulanadi; colored by Paul Becton; lettered by Phil Felix.
Original Marvel cover date: November 1987 (release date August 11, 1987); this is a reprint by Italian publisher Play Press as part of its D.P.7 series (1989–1990), which ran 16 issues.
First appearances in this issue: Scrap Iron (John Rost), Craig LaGraves, Ms. Newhouse (head of Public Relations at the Clinic), 'Orv' Upham, Juris Ziegler (cameo), and Bazooka.
Key story development: Dexter Charne, attempting to seize control of the Clinic, is killed when one of Randy O'Brien's antibody constructs breaks his neck — one of several instances in the series where paranormal powers produce lethal, morally ambiguous outcomes.
Play Press was an Italian publisher founded in 1986; it secured Marvel licenses in 1989 and published D.P.7 as one of its first superhero titles, alongside Iron Man and The New Mutants.
D.P.7 as a series ran 32 issues plus one Annual (1986–1989) and was one of the few New Universe titles to complete a full run alongside Justice and Psi-Force.
The original Marvel series was later partially collected in D.P.7 Classic Vol. 1 (August 2007), which reprints issues #1–9; issue #13 has not been collected in any Marvel trade paperback.