Marvel Knights 4 #5 (June 2004):
“The Pine Barrens: Part 1”
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Steve McNiven, Mark Morales

Marvel Knights 4 #5

Title: “The Pine Barrens: Part 1”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 2004

Publisher:
Written by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Art by: Steve McNiven, Mark Morales

24 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.
The Thing (Ben Grimm)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Metro College; The Fantastic Four		4,393
Franklin Richards	Episcopalian	Daydreamers; Fantastic Five...  Fantastic Force; Generation X; Power Pack; The Fantastic Four		650
Freddie Battle		[friend of Franklin Richards; went camping with FF]		3
Mark Garrett		[friend of Franklin Richards; went camping with FF]		3
Eduardito		Hispanic [friend of Franklin Richards; went camping with FF]		3
unnamed black friend		black [friend of Franklin Richards; went camping with FF]		3
Mr. Williams		[kept aien Visitors a secret]		3
Chief Billings (9-panel cameo, pg. 17-18)	indeterminate	[supervisor over Human Torch when he worked as firefighter]		2
Jacob (6-panel cameo, pg. 8-9)	Jewish	[film school graduate; met FF in Pine Barrens]		3
Jeff (5-panel cameo, pg. 8-9)	indeterminate	[film school graduate; met FF in Pine Barrens]		3
The Jersey Devil (3-panel cameo, pg. 2-3)	demon	[urban legend based on actual alien Visitors]		1
Betsy Shroud (3-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 1-2, 4)	Christian (denomination unknown)	[her prayer caused her to curse child, birth Jersey Devil]		1
The Visitors (2-panel cameo, pg. 20, 22)	alien	[killed people for many years in New Jersey forest]		3
James Shroud (2-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 4-5)	Christian (denomination unknown)	[wife's prayer/curse caused her to birth Jersey Devil]		1
God (mentioned, pg. 2, panels 2-3, 5)  Betsy Shroud: "I pray God this one's born a devil and puts me out of my misery!" Ben Grimm: "Into which, God and the State of New Jersey forgive him, James Shroud threw his baby, turning the river's waters blood-red, the color they still are."	God	[1st app: Old Testament (1402 B.C.)]	various	313
vampires (mentioned, pg. 10, panel 3)  Freddie Battle (upon finding dead, blood-drained deer): "Yeah, except -- it's not squashed. And where's all its blood? There's supposed to be blood, everybody knows that." Franklin Richards: "Maybe something drank it all -- like a vampire."	vampire	[ 1st app: (DC) New Fun #6 (Oct. 1935): "The Vampire Master"; (Marvel) Marvel Mystery Comics #35 (Sep. 1942): "The Banquet of Blood" ]		1,801
Scooby Doo (mentioned, pg. 11, panel 3)  Ben Grimm/The Thing: "Anybody else got the feeling we're in a bad episode of Scooby Doo?"	anthropomorphic animal	dog; Mystery Inc. [mystery-solving dog (Great Dane)]	, etc.	532
Jason Voorhees (mentioned, pg. 7, panel 4)  Ben Grimm: "Well... You know how in the Friday the 13th movies, there's always an old coot who warns the campers to go home because Jason's gonna chop 'em up? Wel... that was him."	resurrected	[mass murderer]		104
The Blair Witch (mentioned, pg. 8, panel 3)  Jacob: "We're here making a documentary. (We're filmmakers, you know? We went to film school?) About the Jersey Devil. (Well, the legend of the Jersey Devil. You know, kinda like The Blair Witch Project -- but real.)"	witch	[1st app: The Blair Witch Project (1999)]	Artisan Entertainment	3
Jack Billings (mentioned, pg. 17, panel 4)  Fire Chief Billings: "Nothing against the Golden Arches or the people who work there--my son Jack included--but people train for years to do what we do. It can't be a... a whim. They volunteer, they take classes in college--"	indeterminate	[son of Human Torch's temporary fire chief supervisor]		1
McDonald's (mentioned)  Fire Chief Billings: "Nothing against the Golden Arches or the people who work there--my son Jack included--but people train for years to do what we do. It can't be a... a whim. They volunteer, they take classes in college--"		[major fast food chain]	New Universe	2

This publication is also known as: 4 #5.

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