Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #4 of this five-part limited series serves as the penultimate escalation of a rare historical-fiction chapter in Victor Creed's biography, deepening Marvel's long-running project of filling in the murky pre-twentieth-century decades of Sabretooth's life. The issue reveals the true identity behind the Crocodilian—Sir Marmaduke Dix—while placing Creed at the violent apex of the Five Points underworld alongside vampires, steampunk gangsters, and K'un-Lun-bred killers, a genre mashup that positions the series as one of the more tonally adventurous Sabretooth stories in decades. Running concurrently with the post-Krakoa 'From the Ashes' X-Men relaunch, it also uses Creed's already-confirmed death in the present-day continuity as a structural device, giving the flashback narrative a built-in dramatic irony—the reader knows Sabretooth survives the 1900s, which makes every threat feel like a test of how far he will go rather than whether he will live.
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The series was announced exclusively through AIPT's X-Men Monday column in September 2024, with writer Frank Tieri—who had previously written Weapon X, Wolverine, and Ruins of Ravencroft: Sabretooth—describing the latter one-shot as direct backstory context for the new miniseries. Tieri has noted that this project picks up narrative threads he laid down in Ruins of Ravencroft: Sabretooth, explicitly tying the two works together. The editorial team of Mark Paniccia, Drew Baumgartner, and Mikey J. Basso guided the book, with interior art by Michael Sta. Maria (pencils and inks), colors by Rachelle Rosenberg on issue #4, and covers for the main edition by Rafael de Latorre.
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- Released March 12, 2025; cover-dated May 2025; part four of a five-issue limited series (Marvel, 2024–2025).
- Written by Frank Tieri; art by Michael Sta. Maria; colors on this issue by Rachelle Rosenberg; main cover by Rafael de Latorre; variant cover by Taurin Clarke.
- The issue reveals that the Crocodilian antagonist is Sir Marmaduke Dix—a character whose identity had been concealed across earlier issues of the series.
- A minor character named 'Bob' makes his first and only appearance in this issue, dying within it, per the Marvel Database.
- Tammany Hall makes its first in-continuity appearance as a Marvel Earth-616 location in this issue.
- The story is set entirely in the early 1900s New York Five Points underworld, with Sabretooth operating under the alias 'Mad Dog Murphy,' a persona first established in issue #1.
- The series is part of Marvel's post-Krakoa 'From the Ashes' X-Men publishing era and is collected in the trade paperback Sabretooth: The Dead Don't Talk (collecting issues #1–5), published by Marvel/Penguin Random House.
- Key Collector Comics designates issue #4 a non-key, with no standalone first appearances of lasting significance catalogued for this specific issue beyond the Tammany Hall location and the Crocodilian identity reveal.
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Reprinted in Sabretooth: The Dead Don’t Talk #[nn] (2025)
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