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	Mike Grell interview.
		Sable became a drunk before falling in with a band of mercenaries who gave him a better than even opportunity of getting himself killed and that's really what was driving him and, to a certain extent, still does.
		Sable is a man with a death wish, struggling to put his life back together with the aid of his friends.
		Sable is affected by the world we live in because it's the world he lives in, a world of conflict and terrorism.
	westfieldcomics.com /wow/frm_int_113.html (1942 words)

	Jon Sable, Freelance - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		Sable represented a reversal of the usual superhero situation, in which the mystery-shrouded adventurer was his real identity and the open, public persona was the disguise.
		Sable was homeless for the rest of the 1990s (tho he did make a major guest appearance in Grell's Shaman's Tears in 1995).
		Sable, written by Grell, was published as a novel during July of that year.
	www.toonopedia.com /jonsable.htm (785 words)

	Jon Sable, Freelance Timeline
		Jon shows her a scrapbook and offers to tell her the whole story of who he really is. He tells her that he wants her to really understand who he is and tells her he's not sure if he's ready to give up the danger or even if he wants to.
		Jon and Myke have noticed runners slipping in and out of Jobert's tent but she never mentions what the messages are about so Jon tracks one of the runners and reads it for himself.
		Jon's dad is upset that Jon has been asking all these questions and blew a deal that's taken him almost a year to put together, but when Jon tells him that the CIA put him on the trail, Jacklight figures if the CIA knows, everybody knows.
	members.fortunecity.com /lost_giant/sable/sable1.htm (7665 words)

	Sable (an Episode Guide)
		Sable gives a child he found at the apartment of a murdered orphanage worker to Cheesecake to look after, while he discovers a baby selling scheme is going on at the orphanage.
		Sable is asked to protect the next victim of a serial killer, whose trademark is a white rose, by the killer himself.
		Sable gets rid of his makeup as he helps a friend, a top thief, who fears for his life since a mobster is killing all the top thieves since his safe got robbed.
	epguides.com /Sable/guide.shtml (556 words)

	Sable series summary
		Sable gives a child he found at the apartment of a murdered orphanage worker to Cheesecake to look after, while he discovers a baby selling scheme is going on at the orphanage.
		Sable is asked to protect the next victim of a serial killer, whose trademark is a white rose, by the killer himself.
		Sable gets rid of his makeup as he helps a friend, a top thief, who fears for his life since a mobster is killing all the top thieves since his safe got robbed.
	www.firsttvdrama.com /show2/history/sable.php3 (310 words)

	NEWSARAMA - IDW ANNOUNCES JON SABLE PLANS
		Jon Sable, Freelance follows on the heels of a similar announcement by IDW regarding the return of another popular First Comics character, GrimJack.
		Jon Sable, Freelance: Conspiracy #1 is a full-color, 32-page comic book on sale in March 2005, with a retail price of $3.99.
		JON SABLE was definitely a series far ahead of its time, so it'll be great to see how far (or little) we've come since the Reagan era.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18471 (1477 words)

	ComicsNexus.com » Comics » Near Mint Memories: Sable. Jon Sable.
		Jon Sable was born to a French Resistance fighter and a WWII pilot in the final days of the war.
		Sable's mother died when he was only six, but she was able to send Jon off to live with his father in the United States.
		Sable was victorious, but tortured by the fact that he didn't learn the identity of the white-haired man before he plunged over the falls.
	www.insidepulse.com /article.php?contentid=20307 (3555 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sable (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jon Sable, hero of the comic book Jon Sable, Freelance, brings little depth to his role as the novel's protagonist, living his dream of running a safari company in Tanzania.
		Sable survives, but his psyche is shattered, and he goes on a killing spree, taking down poachers and forcing a second confrontation with the man who destroyed his family.
		Sable's ensuing literary success catapults him into a new life, but his old one returns to haunt him when he's stalked by an assassin, and he must return to Africa to track the man who put a price on his head.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812565509 (983 words)

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		Jon Sable will return in a new six-part miniseries written and drawn by Grell as well as in quarterly collections of his 1980s adventures.
		Jon Sable is a professional soldier-for-hire who lives a double life, writing children’s books under an assumed name by day and serving as a deadly freelance merc by night.
		Not only is Jon Sable my favorite among all the characters I've ever created, he's also the right kind of hero for today's world -- less than perfect but doing his best, willing to face any danger for what's right, and absolutely relentless when he's on the hunt,” Grell said.
	www.silverbulletcomics.com /news/story.php?a=44 (576 words)

	PREVIEWS - The Comic Shop's Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		That all spins Sable back into that world of violence and bloodshed he had left behind, forcing him to return to Africa where the story had started, in order for him to put it all to rest.
		SB: Jon Sable seemed to be the quintessential hero of the ‘80s: Part Dirty Harry, part Equalizer, part James Bond, Sable overcame his own personal tragedies to fight the good fight (for a price) in a grim-and-gritty world.
		And since I crafted Sable to be outside of the super-hero realm, it was interesting to play with a storyline that he would have to confront this.
	www.diamondcomics.com /previews/editorial/misc_articles/mike_grell/mikegrell_intv.htm (5147 words)

	Broken Frontier \| The Portal for Quality Comics Coverage!
		Sable, along with Starslayer, helped propel the Indy comics boom of the late 80s and through these properties, Grell helped introduce an entire new generation of readers to life beyond superheroes.
		With the idea in mind to bring Sable back to the comic world, Grell cranked up the deal-making machine once again and soon was in heavy talks with IDW publishing.
		Sable is a guy with a heavy burden of guilt and a thinly veiled deathwish, struggling to put his life back together.
	www.brokenfrontier.com /columns/details.php?id=117 (1310 words)

	The Cold War Gets Even Colder
		Jon Sable, Freelance, ran for 56 issues, after which Grell stepped aside to work on Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters for DC Comics.
		The comic and TV series, both titled Sable, shared a logo design, and Jon Sable's original trademark battlemask was redesigned to reflect the show's version.
		Jon Sable returned for a guest appearance in another Mike Grell comic, Shaman's Tears, from Image Comics in the mid-'90s, as well as a novel in 2000.
	www.comicbookbin.com /bubble109.html (1569 words)

	Green Arrow - The Unofficial Fansite (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I did Sable for First Comics, and when Todd McFarlane was getting ready to launch Image, I spoke to him about a year and a half before that ever came about.
		I was well aware of Todd's plans, and I told him that, number one, he had my support, and number two, that if they ever had room for a creepy old codger in that line up of kids, he should give me a call.
		By our demographic study that we did, we discovered that they were in the thirty thousand plus income bracket, and by and large had two years of college under their belt.
	www.greenarrowfansite.com /resource/interview/GRELL1.html (2799 words)

	Yet Another Comics Blog: Review: Jon Sable, Freelance: Bloodtrail
		Jon is a children's book author by day and a mercenary by night (figurtively--he operates both identities during all times of the day), but as the story opens neither career is going very well.
		Haunted by his past and unsure of his place in the present world, Jon is sleepwalking through life, drunk and alone, until threats to the life of an old friend jolt him reluctantly back into action.
		Sable is a man's man, even when he's down on his luck.
	yetanothercomicsblog.blogspot.com /2006/06/review-jon-sable-freelance-bloodtrail.html (637 words)

	The Official Mike Grell Website
		In Sable's case, he's a hunter who has become the hunted and, if it doesn't happen now, eventually the pack WILL catch up to him.
		The answer to that comes in the image of Sable's murdered family, the inciting incident that has governed his life from that day onward, turning him into a man driven (unknown to him, but apparent to everyone close to him) by a deathwish.
		This wasn't a story about Sable being pursued by killers, it was about Sable being pursued by his past.
	www.mikegrell.com /mikegrell/feature-sable19.jsp (415 words)

	Jon Sable
		Powers/Abilities: Sable has no superhuman powers, but is an expert with weapons, and skilled at surviving under extreme conditions.
		History: Jon Sable is a freelance mercenary/gun for hire who lived in New York City.
		Sable premiered on November 7th, 1987, and ran 7 episodes, finishing on January 2, 1988.
	www.internationalhero.co.uk /s/sable.htm (258 words)

	Suspended Animation Comic Book Reviews by Michael Vance and Mark Allen
		In it, he discusses his old Jon Sable comic book series, the new series coming out soon, the failed TV show, and a Sable/Batman crossover planned in the 80's that never saw production.
		Sable is reluctantly drawn into the hunt for the assassin, but his involvement creates danger for everyone around him.
		Sable uses a broom handle Mauser, not because it's the best gun, but because I think it's cool; same for the '53 Studebaker.
	www.starland.com /sus/2005/sus050216.htm (1391 words)

	Jon Sable, Freelance
		Sable is a former big-game hunter turned mercenary (he hunts people now, get it?), who is surrounded by a supporting cast of stunning women, all of whom are in love with him.
		Catch his ongoing adventures as IDW continues to present the entire saga of Mike Grell's classic character, Jon Sable, Freelance.
		But this time around, Sable isn't quite at the top of his form as he is haunted by his dark past.
	tplist.millarworld.net /jonsable.html (611 words)

	Jon Sable
		Mike Grell's JON SABLE was a freelance mercenary/gun-for-hire who lived in New York City.
		And Sable gained enough of a cult following that, in the summer of 2000, Grell wrote and published his first Sable novel, the eponymously-titled Sable, that re-tells the story of those first five or six issues, and apparently drew considerable praise from fans and non-fans alike.
		When the network saw it, they decided that he was a little heavy to be believable in the role, so the pilot was re-shot with Lewis Van Bergen playing Jon Sable...I remember everyone being so psyched to have Gene in the lead and how bummed they were when they had to re-shoot.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /sable.html (812 words)

	ComicsNexus.com » Comics » Caught in the Nexus: Mike Grell
		SABLE for a couple of years and GRIMJACK was the door-opener, but there were a lot of legal entanglements that had to be worked out in order to free GRIMJACK.
		Sable was a hardnosed mercenary most of the time, but in his spare time he wrote "Wee the People" children's novels as B.B. Flemm.
		Gene Simmons, who has been a staunch SABLE fan and supporter over all these years, was the producer and he was very disappointed, but he lost his backing and SABLE was only one of many films that went down with that ship.
	www.insidepulse.com /article.php?contentid=36611 (1645 words)

	Rambles: Jon Sable: Freelance
		Jon Sable was a "merc" -- a mercenary, or gun for hire.
		His character was multi-layered, if you will, having suffered terrible tragedy in his past (typical in many classic comics characters) and having backgrounds in big game hunting, military service and, of course, various mercenary endeavors.
		Jon Sable: Freelance is recommended for those who enjoy action, adventure, political intrigue and James Bond-style hijinks.
	www.rambles.net /jonsable_fl05.html (249 words)

	Mike Grell On The Return Of Jon Sable
		However, Sable fans old and new will be able to enjoy the re-release of material originally published by First Comics.
		Grell has his own ideas for what’s taken place in the world of Jon Sable since he stepped away from the comic book over 15 years ago, but he prefers to keep mum for now.
		Maggie the Cat, a recurring character from JON SABLE, FREELANCE, was featured in her own limited series from Image in the early 1990s.
	www.comicbookbin.com /bubble38.html (1142 words)

	Comic Book Artist Magazine #8 - Mike Grell Interview - TwoMorrows Publishing
		I signed on to do Sable, created the concept for Sable, and agreed that after that, I'd stay with Starslayer and do the launch with them, write the first few issues for them, and turn it over to the able hands of John Ostrander.
		I was interested enough in Sable, and confident enough in John that I was able to walk away and be satisfied with what he did.
		Sable today is a reflection of my growth as well, a certain realization that the world today is not the world it was 18 years ago, when I first created the character.
	www.twomorrows.com /comicbookartist/articles/08grell.html (6454 words)

	NEWSARAMA - MIKE GRELL ON JON SABLE'S RETURN
		Sable’s life was shattered by the slaughter of his family by ivory poachers and by his own terrible revenge.
		Sable was one of my absolute favorites when I was a teenager, so I'm thrilled to see him back in comic books.
		Jon Sable was before I had access to American comics, but I do know Mike Grell's work on other things and he's a great artist.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28296 (3452 words)

	NEWSARAMA - MIKE GRELL'S JON SABLE RETURNS @ IDW
		As the character was originally created, Jon Sable saw his family killed by poachers after he had tried to stop the poachers from preying on endanged species in Africa.
		Not only is SABLE my favorite among all the characters I've ever created, he's also the right kind of hero for today's world - less than perfect but doing his best, willing to face any danger for what's right, and absolutely relentless when he's on the hunt,” Grell said on his site.
		Jon Sable was one of the best comics of the 80s, both best-selling and critically acclaimed.
	www.newsarama.com /forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17994 (4301 words)

	Comics2Film: Jon Sable: Freelance (Archive)
		Jon Sable was announced last summer as a co-production between Kiss demon Gene Simmons and Pacifica Entertainment.
		This time Simmons is developing Mike Grell's Jon Sable, Freelance with Pacifica Entertainment.
		Sable was also the subject of a 1987 TV series starring Louis Van Bergen and Rene Russo.
	www.comics2film.com /JonSableArch.shtml (196 words)

	Sable (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This show JTS when they "killed" the hero alter ego of childrens book author/freelance avenger Jon Sable on the 7th and last episode of the show.
		Except for (of course) the one where some (other) nutter PRETENDS to be Sable except HE really shoots people with HIS gun (because he's not as nice as the REAL Sable) I'm spending more time on this than it deserves.
		His only joy in life was telling the world's oldest, lamest jokes, mostly to poor Sable, 'cause I think he was the only one who ever visited him, and playing with a little box that played recorded laughter and applause when he turned it on after each dumb joke.
	www.jumptheshark.com /s/sable.htm (369 words)

	IDW Brings Back Jon Sable, Freelance - Silver Bullet Comics - comics news, comic book news, comics information
		Jon Sable is a professional soldier-for-hire who lives a double life, writing children’s books under an assumed name by day and serving as a deadly freelance merc by night.
		March will also see the release of the first all-new Jon Sable adventure written and drawn by Mike Grell in well over a decade.
		Not only is Jon Sable my favorite among all the characters I've ever created, he's also the right kind of hero for today's world -- less than perfect but doing his best, willing to face any danger for what's right, and absolutely relentless when he's on the hunt,” Grell said.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /news/109587729894526.htm (593 words)

	Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden Comic Issues at ComicMix
		Jon Sable must guard the world's most beautiful woman.
		Jon Sable isn't trained to take care of a spoiled, beautiful woman.
		Sable has a diamond as big as a baseball in his luggage and the world's most beautiful woman in the seat next to him.
	www.comicmix.com /title/jon-sable-freelance-ashes-of-eden (954 words)

	Amazon.com: Jon Sable, Freelance: Bloodtrail (Jon Sable, Freelance): Mike Grell: Books
		His career in a tailspin, Sable signs on to prevent the assassination of a foreign national visiting terror-torn Manhattan...
		Series creator Mike Grell returns to provide the story and art for Bloodtrail, the newest and most thrilling chapter in the continuing saga of Jon Sable, Freelance.
		Have always enjoyed the Jon Sable series and read most of the old comics back in the late 80's and early 90's.
	www.amazon.com /Jon-Sable-Freelance-Bloodtrail/dp/1933239727 (554 words)

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