Codename: Knockout

    (Vertigo, 2001-2003)
™ and ©2001 Louis Small and Robert Rodi

When you pickup a title from DC’s Vertigo imprint you can be fairly sure that you’ll be getting a serious, occult-based multi-themed narrative with art that is heavy on symbolism and abstraction, right? Well, let’s just say this is not your father’s Vertigo.

Codename: Knockout is a fun-loving farce that evokes the superspy genre of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The protagonists are blonde bombshell, Angela St. Grace and her partner/best friend, Go-Go Fiasco, an over-the-top gay man given to reciting movie dialogue even when he is moments from death.

This title’s presence in the Vertigo stable seems mandated entirely by the characters’ frank sexuality and the plethora of derriere shots that Angela displays. Nevertheless the writing is smart and funny and the T & A art is entirely appropriate.

— George Haberberger
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#0

June, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
7 copies available from $1.53 		Robert RodiLouis Small Jr.
#1 (Regular Painted Cover by Joe Chiodo)

July, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
4 copies available from $1.94 		Robert RodiLouis Small Jr.
#1 Variation A (Cover A by Frank Cho)

2-Jul-2001
Cover Price: $2.50
3 copies available from $4.98 		Robert RodiLouis Small Jr.
#2

August, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
10 copies available from $0.70 		Robert RodiLouis Small Jr.
#3

September, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
14 copies available from $0.99 		Robert RodiLouis Small Jr.
#4

October, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
16 copies available from $0.99 		Robert RodiYanick Paquette, Louis Small Jr.
#5

November, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
6 copies available from $1.20 		Robert RodiAl Rio, Louis Small Jr.
#6

December, 2001
Cover Price: $2.50
13 copies available from $1.20 		Robert RodiAmanda Conner
#7

January, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
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#8

February, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
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#9

March, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
7 copies available from $1.40 		Robert RodiAmanda Conner
#10

April, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
9 copies available from $1.40 		Robert RodiYanick Paquette
#11

May, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
8 copies available from $1.00 		Robert RodiYanick Paquette
#12

June, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
8 copies available from $1.60 		Robert RodiPhil Jimenez, Yanick Paquette
#13

July, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
7 copies available from $1.40 		Robert RodiAmanda Conner
#14 (Codename: Knockout diptych cover, 1/2)

August, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
2 copies available from $3.00 		Robert RodiAmanda Conner
#14 Variation A (Codename: Knockout diptych Cover A, 2/2)

August, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
1 copy available for $9.00 		Robert RodiAmanda Conner
#15

September, 2002
Cover Price: $2.50
8 copies available from $1.60 		Robert RodiEd Benés
#16

October, 2002
Cover Price: $2.75
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#17

November, 2002
Cover Price: $2.75
7 copies available from $1.60 		Robert RodiEd Benés
#18

December, 2002
Cover Price: $2.75
9 copies available from $1.20 		Robert RodiEd Benés
#19

February, 2003
Cover Price: $2.75
8 copies available from $1.40 		Robert RodiMark A. Robinson
#20

March, 2003
Cover Price: $2.75
6 copies available from $1.60 		Robert RodiMark A. Robinson
#21

April, 2003
Cover Price: $2.75
7 copies available from $1.75 		Robert RodiJohn Lucas
#22

May, 2003
Cover Price: $2.75
7 copies available from $1.40 		Robert RodiJohn Lucas
#23

June, 2003
Cover Price: $2.75
7 copies available from $1.75 		Robert RodiJohn Lucas