Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #21
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSilver Sable and the Wild Pack #21 is historically notable primarily as a character showcase for Raul Quentino, a Wild Pack operative written as a former Los Angeles gang member and heroin user who was HIV-positive — an unusually frank portrayal of social issues for a Marvel action title of the era. The 'Home of the Bodybag' two-parter, which begins here, uses the Wild Pack's mercenary contract in Beverly Hills as a lens to examine class tension and gang violence in ways uncommon for the mid-1990s superhero genre. The issue also serves as the setup for Quentino's adoption of the codename 'G-Wiz' in the immediately following issue #22, marking a small but meaningful step in his character arc. A secondary back-up story spotlighting Amy Chen adds to the series' ongoing practice of using backup strips to flesh out individual Wild Pack members as fully realized characters rather than background soldiers.
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The issue was written by series regular Gregory Wright, who helmed the title from its 1992 launch, with pencils by Steven Butler and inks by Pam Eklund; a second art team (Jim Hall and Harry Candelario) handled the back-up strip. The series itself had been launched in June 1992 as Silver Sable's first ongoing solo title after years of Spider-Man guest appearances, and by issue #21 it was two years into a 35-issue run that would conclude in 1995. The 'Home of the Bodybag' arc reflects the series' recurring editorial ambition — visible across multiple issues — to pair mercenary-action plotting with then-topical social commentary, a pattern Gregory Wright pursued throughout his tenure on the book.
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- Issue title: 'Home of the Bodybag' — Part 1 of 2; story concludes in Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #22 ('Don't Believe the Hype!').
- Release date: December 14, 1993; cover-dated February 1994. Published by Marvel Comics.
- Written by Gregory Wright; pencils by Steven Butler; inks by Pam Eklund (main story) and Jim Hall & Harry Candelario (back-up).
- Main plot: The Wild Pack are hired to suppress gang activity in Beverly Hills; Wild Pack member Raul Quentino is central to the story because his former gang associates are among the antagonists.
- Raul Quentino is depicted as a former L.A. gang member and heroin user who is HIV-positive — a notably candid characterization for a mainstream Marvel superhero comic of 1994.
- The twist reveal: the street gangs have been covertly backed by the Intruders, an offshoot team within the Wild Pack's own extended network.
- Back-up story: 'Victim Past,' an origin spotlight on Wild Pack member Amy Chen.
- Quentino adopts the heroic codename 'G-Wiz' in the very next issue (#22), making #21 the final issue in which he appears solely under his surname — a minor but trackable character-history milestone.
- Key Collector Comics does not designate this issue as a key issue; the Grand Comics Database recorded an average print run of approximately 193,987 copies across the series at this time (as stated in the issue's own Statement of Ownership).
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