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Deathwish #4 (Mar. 1995):
“Silence of the Rahm”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti

Deathwish #4

Title: “Silence of the Rahm”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Mar. 1995

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani
Art by: J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti


5 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Deathwish Deathwish (Wilton Johnson)
(lead character)
villain hero
CBR Scale: D obsessed with sex-related
crimes
[adventurer; vigilante] DC Milestone Media 11
Marisa Rahm Marisa Rahm
(lead character)
supporting character hero based on a real person
CBR Scale: M LGBT
[transexual] DC Milestone Media 7
Boots (James Gordon Staley) villain
  [albino] DC Milestone Media 4
Dini Torres supporting character
CBR Scale: M LGBT
Hispanic
[Marisa Rahm's transsexual lover; House of Luna's top diva]
DC Milestone Media 4
Kevin Thorne supporting character
CBR Scale: M anti-LGBT
[police] DC Milestone Media 2

Summary from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=26&:

Deathwish has finally pushed Marisa over the edge. Boot's party is crashed by a bald, leather-clad Marisa bent on getting Dini back. Dini escapes with the help of Deathwish and is picked up by Lt. Kevin Thorne. Marisa confronts Boots and does a psycho Deathwish scene as she makes Boots kills himself. Thorne, however, kills Dini and Marisa goes to Paris alone and unsettled by her state of mind.