Story: "The Children's Crusade" (58 Pages)
"Chapter One: Nine Days' Wonder"
"Chapter Two: True Detective Stories"
"Chapter Three: The Innocents"
"Chapter Four: The Fat Begins to Fry"
"Chapter Five: The Piper and the Gate"
"Chapter Six: Charles Rowland to the Dark Tower Came"
"Chapter Seven: The Hole"
"Chapter Eight: What Comes Out of the Chimney?"
Credits:
Neil Gaiman (plot, script) Chris Bachalo (pencils) Mike Barreiro (inks) John Costanza (letters) Daniel Vozzo (colors) Julie Rottenberg (assistant edits) Lou Stathis and Tom Peyer (consulting edits) Stuart Moore (edits)
An unnamed monk (first appearance; in flashback to 1212)
Other Characters:
Avril Mitchell (first appearance; a young girl of Flaxdown) Aiken Drum Wat Jumping Joan (all three also in flashback to 1213) Kerwyn Daniel Lian (all three next in Doom Patrol Annual Vol. 2 #1) Junkin Buckley (next in Black Orchid Annual Vol. 2 #1) Jack Rabbit (next in Animal Man Annual #1) Peter Puck (next in Swamp Thing Annual Vol. 2 #7; first appearance of all nine; founding inhabitants of Free Country; latter six in flashback to 1213) Mwyfany (Aiken Drum's sister) Yolinde Jacomo (first appearance of all three; all three die in flashback to 1213) Maureen Parsons (first appearance; an inhabitant of Flaxdown) Robert Browning (in flashback to late 19th century)