Comic Title: Wanderers #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: June 7, 1988 Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

Copyright Date June 7, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date June 21, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date June 20, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "...the Short Path to Hell"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Wanderers

Writer: Doug Moench
Penciller: Dave Hoover
Inker: Robert Campanella
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Helen Vesik

Feature Character(s)

• Wanderers (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Re-Animage (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Psyche (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Elvar (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Quantum Queen (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Dartalon (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• Aviax (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Clonus (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)

Villain(s)

• Squink (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• A Controller hunter (last appearance in Wanderers #2; next appearance in Wanderers #5)
• The children of Clonus (last appearance in Wanderers #3; next appearance in Wanderers #5)

Other Character(s)

• The natives of an alien world (last appearance in Wanderers #3; no further appearances)
• Clonus Prime (in flashback to his origin; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Wanderers #1)
• Controllers (in flashback to the origin of Clonus Prime; no further appearances)
• Velissa (Clonus's wife; in flashback to the origin of Clonus; no further appearances)
• A clone of Velissa (last appearance in Wanderers #1; next appearance in Wanderers #5)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• The children of Clonus (in flashback to the origin of Clonus; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Wanderers #1)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• The Original Wanderers (in flashback)

Comments:
This story continues in Wanderers #5.

Synopsis:
The Wanderers resume their quest to follow the journey of the original Clonus. His clone, trapped in computer of the Wanderer's space ship, tells the team the origin of his Prime. Clonus was forced to flee from the continuum of the Controllers after he was caught conducting illegal experiments with cloning. On a remote planet, Clonus met a human woman named Velissa and fell in love.

Together, Clonus and Velissa continued the cloning experiments. Although Clonus was immortal, Velissa was not. Therefore, she became the first successful cloning subject. Over the course of lifetimes, she was cloned many times. Eventually, the couple succeeded in having children who were given to the care of an institution. Eventually it was these children and their offspring that became the monsters which killed the original Wanderers and Clonus Prime himself.

Psyche has kept one of the monster hatchlings as a pet and converted it to join their cause. It is able to provide directions to the planet where the children of Clonus reside. The team sets course, after successfully capturing the Controller hunter that was trailing them. Once they reach the planet of the hatchlings, they also discover the last clone of Velissa, who is still alive.