Well... technically it's a Shadowmasters storytime, but close enough.
Who are The Shadowmasters?
Back in 1989 Marvel featured a new team of characters, a ninja clan called The Shadowmasters. Expectations for their sales potential must have pretty high, because they were given a rather impressive blitz of promotion in the form of separate spotlighted story arcs in both (then red hot) Punisher ongoings at the time plus their own miniseries with all published right around the exact same time.
The Shadowmasters actually made their debut as recurring, but mostly nameless, background characters in the pages of the early issues of The Punisher War Journal. They made their debut proper as proper ninjas in The Punisher War Journal #8 and then appeared again in the following issue. At about the exact same time they were also given a multi-issue arc in The Punisher that carried through issue #25.
You can read all of those appearances here: This is their dedicated miniseries, originally published around the exact same time as the stories in the first thread. It features some really slick art by Dan Lawlis (who I've never heard of before) and scripts by Carl Potts (who wrote the early issues of The Punisher War Journal). The issues are also double sized, making this a quite long miniseries equivalent to about 8 issues long in terms of page count.
But it's already late as fuck, so no more chatter. Time to read...
THE SHADOWMASTERS #1-4
STORYTIME
Samuel Mitchell
IF YOU'RE READING THEN KEEP THE THREAD BUMPED
Ian Martinez
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Gabriel King
>IF YOU'RE READING THEN KEEP THE THREAD BUMPED
Jace Flores
This is a heck of an opening panel if I ever saw one.
Carter Sanchez
I'm not even reading but here's a bump
Jason King
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Juan Jones
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Tyler Reed
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Ayden White
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Alexander Phillips
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David Roberts
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Nathan Gonzalez
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Eli Nguyen
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Camden Watson
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Leo Campbell
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William Barnes
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James Flores
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Ethan Martinez
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Evan Nguyen
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Parker Perez
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Asher Hernandez
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Carson Barnes
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Sebastian Hill
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Gavin Hill
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Oliver Gomez
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Brayden Stewart
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Asher Bailey
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Brandon Moore
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Easton Moore
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Lincoln Kelly
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Levi Lewis
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Nolan Jones
I really like this. Totally 80s ninja-rrific.
Wyatt Campbell
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Christian Baker
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Jayden Rogers
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Ryder Collins
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Josiah Torres
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Robert Edwards
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Michael Phillips
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Alexander Richardson
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Ethan Watson
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Jordan Lewis
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Jordan Martin
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Christopher Morales
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Alexander Jones
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Isaiah Wilson
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Nathaniel Thompson
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Aaron Watson
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Wyatt Reed
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Christopher Green
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Grayson Sanchez
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Austin Wood
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Evan Watson
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Luke Butler
ISSUE #2
Hunter Lewis
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Nicholas Fisher
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Xavier Diaz
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Hudson Rivera
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Jeremiah Gray
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William Cruz
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Joshua Young
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Elijah Gutierrez
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Jaxon Martin
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Colton Howard
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Jayden Rivera
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Brody Thompson
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Jaxon Brown
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Cameron Cruz
Oh, I see where this could be going. Very classic of these ninja stories.
