A key issue noted for First appearance of Drill Sergeant and First appearance of Retro-Blade. Puppet Master #17 was published by Action Lab on June 1, 2016, as part of a series that began in 2015. Shawn Gabborin writes, and art comes from Andrew Mangum, Anna Lencioni and Antonio Ontiveros. It features Blade, Pinhead, Jester, Tunneler and Andre Toulon, among 17 characters cataloged on VerseDB.