Story: "Books of Magic Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth" (49 Pages)

Credits: Neil Gaiman (plot, script); John Bolton (artist); Todd Klein (letters); Karen Berger (edits)

Feature Character: Timothy Hunter (first appearance; last in flashback in Books of Magic Vol. 2 #43)

Guest Stars: Phantom Stranger (last in Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #29), John Constantine (last in Hellblazer #40), Doctor Occult (last in ...), Mister E (last in Secrets of Haunted House #41)

Villain: The Cold Flame (first appearance; a supernatural cult)

Guest Appearances: Lucifer Morningstar (next in flashback in Spectre Vol. 3 #25), Uriel, Raphael, Michael, Saraquel, Raguel (the Archangels of Heaven); Arion (after the fall of Atlantis; last in ???; next in Arion the Immortal #1); Merlin (at age 14), Iason (later known as Jason Blood; before merging with Etrigan; both in the mid-6th century); Kent Nelson, Inza Nelson; Zatara (last in Spectre Vol. 2 #8), Sargon (last in flashback in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #149; next in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #143); Dionysus (also known as the Twice-born boy and Bacchus)

Other Character: Yo-Yo (first appearance; Timothy Hunter's yo-yo; is tranformed into an owl in this issue)