Story: "Episode One: Guns and Roses" (24 Pages)

Credits: Gary Ushaw (plot, script); Warren Pleece (pencils, inks, colors); Gaspar Saladino (letters); Shelly Roeberg (associate edits); Karen Berger and Alisa Kwitney (edits)

Feature Character: Jack Kellor (first appearance, last in flashback in issue #5; head of a magic mob family in Britain)

Supporting Characters: Jack's mother (unnamed), Sarah Kellor (Jack's sister; first appearance of both; both last in flashback in issue #5); Floyd (first appearance; last in flashback in issue #4; a magician and Jack's closest associate)

Villains: John Kellor (first appearance; Jack's father; as corpse; also in flashback following flashback in issue #2), The Bocor (first appearance; a master of voodoo in the Kellor Mob; also in flashback in between flashbacks in issue #2 and #4), Bernie, Louie (first appearance of both; mobsters), Robert Merz (first appearance; owner of a male prostitution ring), Aspen (first appearance; a bar owner; in flashback) and unnamed Mobsters

Guest Appearance: John Constantine (in between Hellblazer #84 and #85)

Other Characters: A Priest, a Funeral Party (first appearance of all); two Bartenders (first appearance of both; both die in flashback), Ed Branstein (first appearance; a reporter for the Evening Standard; dies)

Synopsis:

The Kellor Mob is one of the most influental organizations in England's underworld, and one important reason of that is the unorthodox use of magic in their criminal activities. When the head of the family, John Kellor, dies, his son Jack is supposed to take over. Jack is not as well-versed in magic as some of the other people of his organization, but secretly wields a limited degree of mind-expanding telepathy. However, Jack has not only to struggle to win the respect of rival crime bosses – he must also keep control of the Bocor, the immensely powerful voodoo magician who was the right-hand man of John Kellor. With the scarfaced mobster-turned-wizard Floyd at his side, Jack deals with his various duties as the head of the "family". But secretly, Jack plots to bring his father's empire to its knees.