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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published February 1994
Cover Price 2.00 USD
Pages 36
Editing Bob Harras

Cover Details

Characters Gambit; Jean-Luc Lebeau; Julien Boudreaux
Genre superhero
Pencils Lee Weeks
Inks Lee Weeks
Letters Typeset

22 page Gambit story "The Benefactress"

Characters Gambit; GUESTS: Rogue; Bella Donna; Jean-Luc Lebeau; Tante Mattie; VILLAINS: Candra; Tithe Collector; Marius Boudreaux; Julien Boudreaux; Assassins Guild
Synopsis Gambit arrives in Paris and gains an audience with Candra, benefactress of the Thieves Guild and a woman with whom Gambit has a little personal history; She agrees to provide him with a vial of the Elixir of Life for Bella Donna but only if Remy is willing to kill his own father; Their negotiations are interrupted by Julien and his rogue assassins who are looking to gain the serum for themselves; Gambit saves Candra from Julien and the assassins are driven off; Gambit receives a kiss for his heroism and leaves with his father but Candra quickly discovers that he stole the elixir off of her person during their moment of intimacy; Candra tells the Tithe Collector to return to New Orleans and command both the Thieves and Assassins Guilds to kill Gambit as a traitor; Rogue accidentally touches Bella Donna and witnesses her love affair with Gambit through her memories.
Genre superhero
Script Howard Mackie
Pencils Lee Weeks
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Steve Buccellato
Letters Richard Starkings
Reprinted in Wiz (Marvel Italia, 1995 series) #3