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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published December 1998
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 54
Editing Matt Idelson; Paul Tutrone (Assistant)
Notes Cover bills this as a Secret Wars II crossover

Cover Details - "From the Pages of Deadpool--Deadpool!"

Characters Deadpool; Widdle Wade
Genre Superhero; Humor
Pencils Pete Woods
Inks Walden Wong
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Deadpool [Team-Up] (Marvel, 2009 series) #900

2 page Deadpool recap "Previously In Deadpool"

Synopsis Background on the issue
Genre Superhero; Humor
Notes Design by Comicraft's John Marasign

39 page Deadpool story "Turning Japanese...or Little Demon Inside"

Characters Deadpool [Wade Wilson]; GUESTS: Beyonder; C.F.; Patch; Oyakata; Sazae; VILLAINS: Widdle Wade (death); Daruma; Shigeru (death); The Boss
Synopsis In the distant past, Deadpool interferes with the Beyonder's grand plan to replace Elvis and become the new Messiah of earth for which the big B blasts him to the dawn of time; Shigeru, a servant of the mysterious "Boss," gathers some of Deadpool's blood left behind and brings it to his master; The Boss uses the blood to create a clone of DP, a much shorter and cuter clone; Now, in the present, the Boss contacts Deadpool and tells him that a killer is on the loose; The assassin has already killed his top man, Shigeru, and DP is asked to protect the next target, the sumo trainer, Oyakata; 'Pool travels to Japan where he has his first encounter with Widdle Wade and fights him off; Oyakata greets DP with a hug and it is revealed that, back in the distant past (again), the sumo trainer taught the merc with a mouth to bump bellies with the best of them; Deadpool is also reunited with Oyakata's daughter, Sazae, with whom he was once in love; Sazae learns that her father is a target because he used to kill for the Yakuza; Wade explains to her that he left never to return because of his hideous disfigurement; Widdle Wade attacks again, this time with a cute killer puppy as a sidekick, and battles Deadpool to the death (his own); Oyakata demands that DP stay and fight for him because, if he walks away again, he is never to return; Before 'Pool takes off, he tells Sazae that he was the one who killed all of her father's old targets, thus restoring him to honor in his daughter's eyes; Deadpool does a little renegotiation with the Boss.
Genre Superhero; Humor
Script James Felder
Pencils Pete Woods
Inks Walden Wong
Colors Shannon Blanchard
Letters Richard Starkings and Comicraft
Notes The opening Beyonder sequence claims to be continued in Secret Wars III #2 (a thoroughly fictitious comic).
Reprinted In Deadpool [Team-Up] (Marvel, 2009 series) #900