Comic Title: Demon #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1987
On Sale Date: January 2, 1987 Newsstand Date January 2, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #35

Newsstand Date January 2, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #107

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #35

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #107

Shipping Date December 9, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #112

Copyright Date December 9, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Begins Our Tale of Woe"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Demon (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Matt Wagner
Inker: Art Nichols
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Demon:From the Darkness TPB (2014)

Feature Character(s)

• Demon (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Millennium #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jason Blood (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Cosmic Odyssey #1)
• Glenda Mark (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #636)
• Merlin (last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #638)

Villain(s)

• Asteroth (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Demon #3; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #638)
• Several gargoyles (destroys in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
Jason Blood and Etrigan are separated in this story.

This story is continued from Demon #3.

Synopsis:
Jason and Glenda return to Merlin's castle. Jason enters and with Etrigan's help defeats the gargoyle sentries. Then Jason is able to enter Merlin's chambers and confront the wizard. He demands that the connection between himself and Etrigan be severed. Merlin refuses, so Jason plays music that entrances the wizard.

Jason and Merlin leave the castle, but Jason soon realizes that he is not in control. Merlin enters the forest and is felled by hawthorn. The wizard disappears, and his spells are broken. Merlin is taken by Asteroth to be tortured.

Etrigan is finally able to leave Jason's body. Glenda tries to stop Etrigan with the philosopher's stone, but without Merlin, the stone is powerless. Etrigan then leaves Jason alive and flies away, free from his centuries old prison.