Millennium Edition: Hellblazer

    (DC, 2000)
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To celebrate the end of one millennium and the beginning of another, DC Comics published a series of Millennium Editions that reprinted significant books from the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Modern Ages of Comics. After his triumphant appearance as a mysterious agent provocateur in Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing, readers were clamoring for more stories featuring the enigmatic, charismatic, trench-coated magician named John Constantine. And so in 1988, DC published a mature-readers-only title devoted to Constantine and the edgy, frightening world in which he lives. While Moore demurred on the writing chores, fellow British writer Jamie Delano brilliantly captured the attitude of Constantine and set a tone for the series that would be unsurpassed until Garth Ennis (Preacher, Punisher) took on the writing chores several years later. Hellblazer, along with Swamp Thing, Sandman and Doom Patrol, would form the core of DC’s Vertigo group of mature comics, and became the longest-running title of the line, outlasting even Swamp Thing, from which it spun off.
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#1

July, 2000
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $5.00 		Jamie DelanoJohn Ridgway