Supreme #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSupreme #10 (February 1994) is the first appearance of Quantum (Michael Stone), the supervillain who would go on to strip Supreme of his powers in the subsequent Extreme Prejudice crossover — making this issue the narrative launchpad for one of the most consequential story arcs in the early Extreme Studios era. The issue also delivers the first on-page articulation of Supreme's retconned origin as Ethan Crane, a Depression-era man transformed by a government experiment combining drugs and radiation conducted by scientist Horatio Wells — backstory that the Legend of Supreme miniseries would later expand upon, with reporter Maxine Winslow as the thread connecting both stories. As the debut chapter of the nine-part Black & White backup serial running across Extreme Studios titles in early 1994, the issue simultaneously functions as a promotional hub for Art Thibert's creator-owned property, reflecting the franchise-building ambitions that defined the Extreme Studios imprint at the height of the Image boom.
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The issue was scripted by Rob Liefeld and Kurt Hathaway with pencils by Brian Murray and inks by Joe Rubinstein — part of an ongoing creative team rotation characteristic of Liefeld's fast-moving Extreme Studios pipeline, where Hathaway served as a frequent co-writing collaborator across multiple Supreme issues during this period. The Black & White backup strip was written and drawn by Art Thibert and his wife Pamela Thibert, who had been working at Image from 1993 to 1995 primarily as cover inker on titles including Supreme, Spawn, Team Youngblood, and Brigade, using the backup slot to preview their own creator-owned characters ahead of the standalone Black & White mini-series that Image published later in 1994. The issue's cover was pencilled by Brian Murray with inks by Joe Rubinstein, and the issue also contains a pin-up of Supreme by Hoang Nguyen.
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- First appearance of Quantum (real name Michael Stone), the supervillain who later steals Supreme's powers in the Extreme Prejudice crossover event.
- The lead story, titled 'The Interview,' features Supreme sitting for a live television interview with reporter Maxine Winslow, during which he publicly recounts his origin as Ethan Crane, a volunteer in a late-1930s U.S. government experiment run by scientist Horatio Wells using drugs and radiation.
- The interview is interrupted by a live news broadcast showing Quantum battling Brigade and Youngblood in Arizona, prompting Supreme to end the interview and fly off to confront him.
- Script by Rob Liefeld and Kurt Hathaway; pencils by Brian Murray; inks by Joe Rubinstein; cover also by Murray and Rubinstein.
- Contains a bonus pin-up of Supreme by Hoang Nguyen.
- The Black & White backup strip — written and drawn by Art Thibert (with Pamela Thibert) — begins its nine-part run here as part 1 of a serial appearing across multiple Extreme Studios titles in early 1994; the next chapter ran in Team Youngblood #6.
- Published February 1994 by Image Comics under the Extreme Studios imprint; 36 pages.
- Maxine Winslow, established here as Supreme's primary press interviewer, is the same reporter later used as the investigative protagonist of the Legend of Supreme three-issue miniseries by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming.
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