Creed of the Cutthroat No. 239 is a comic-style book that appears in Outrider (book). It is issue number 239 of the series, which follows a Gruenor pirate antihero named Brindle Bill Wecker, who terrorizes the fleet of the Letanian navy. The comics were used as propaganda. This particular issued is carried around by Shades, who likes it because it contains pictures, and since he can't read well. He never looks at it when strangers are around because he doesn't want it to be stolen.