Rialto Theater

The Rialto Theater is a stage theater featured in comic books published by Image Comics under their Top Cow Productions imprint. It is associated with the Witchblade line of titles and appeared in Witchblade #1 in November, 1995.

The Rialto Theater was an old closed down stage theater in Long Island. In the 1990s, industrialist Kenneth Irons used the theater to auction off a mystical artifact known as The Witchblade. He sold it to a crime boss named Tony Cugliani. When Cugliani tried to don the gauntlet however, it rejected him, burning off his arm.

New York City Police Department detectives Sara Pezzini and Michael Yee raided the theater, and a gunfight ensued. Mobsters fired upon Yee, but Pezzini dove in front of him to take the bullets. The Witchblade seemed to drawn to her, and when she reached out for it, it applied itself to her arm, and then spread across her body, healing her injuries. She was then able to tap into its powers to fight up against the mobsters.

Appearances

 * 1) Witchblade 1