Jessan Hoan Reavers had been hired to attack Hoan International bank by Roche, the crime lord of Madripoor. She moved to the island of Madripoor, where she became embroiled with the criminal element and adopted the alias "Tyger Tiger", after the William Blake poem "The Tyger". Wolverine later joined Jessan's efforts against Roche. Jessan decapitated Roche after he shot Wolverine. As Tyger Tiger, Jessan became the new crime lord of Madripoor, but she refuses to deal in either drugs or slavery. She briefly wore a highly resistant suit of armor, a duplicate of the armor used by the X-Man Psylocke. Tyger is
Lord Tyger a hardcover. This edition featured cover art by Seymour Chwast. It was reprinted as a paperback by Signet with cover art by Bob Pepper, in 1972. It was first released in the United Kingdom as a Panther paperback in 1974, featuring cover art by Richard Clifton-Dey. Another Signet edition, this time in 1981, was a "Signet Double Science Fiction" paired with Farmer's earlier novel "Flesh". The Richard Clifton-Dey artwork was re-used for the latest edition, a 1985 Granada paperback. The French language edition was entitled "Le Tigre Africain", roughly "The African Tiger". Lord Tyger Lord Tyger is an American novel