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HELLBLAZER #1
January 1988 [$1.25]
Cover Credits:
Dave McKean (art; signed)
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Story: "Hunger" (40 Pages)
Credits:
Jamie Delano (plot, script)
John Ridgway (pencils, inks)
Annie Halfacree (letters)
Lovern Kindzierski (colors)
Karen Berger (edits)
Feature Character:
John Constantine (last in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #67)
Supporting Characters:
Frank William "Chas" Chandler (first appearance; John's best friend; last in flashback in issue #84; next in issue #4)
Gary Lester (first appearance; an old school friend of John's and former member of Mucous Membrane; last in flashback in issue #11)
Papa Midnite (Papa Linton Midnight; first appearance; a crime lord and voodoo king; last in flashback in issue #72)
Emma (as a ghost; last in Saga of the Swamp Thing #37)
Mrs. M (first appearance; John's landlady; also in flashback)
"The Professor" (first appearance; an anthropologist at the British Museum)
Villains:
Mnemoth (first appearance; the avatar of hunger and famine; also in flashback)
one of Papa Midnight's zombie servants (first appearance)
Other Characters:
Ali (first appearance; a store owner and friend of John's; next in issue #4)
A Dinkan shaman (first appearance; the shaman of a small tribe in Sudan; also in flashback)
Henry Wambach (first appearance; a supervisor at the Greenwich Village post office; dies)
Eddie (first appearance; a vegetarian; dies)
Gino (first appearance; a hotdog vendor)
Marty, and
his girlfriend (first appearance of both)
Kenny
Wayne (first appearance of both; the British Boys; next in issue #4)
Comment:
This issue also has a one page article called "Faces on the Street" by Satchmo Hawkins about John Constantine along with a note saying "John, Your copy as promised - Satch".
For an in-depth synopsis of this issue visit the "Straight To Hell - A Hellblazer Site" issue listing.
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