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Issue: Vertigo Secret Files: Hellblazer #1
Publication Date: August 2000
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: suggested for mature readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: VertigoView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 06/14/2000
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76194122500500111
Price: $7.95 CAD
$4.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 19 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: New printing: January 5, 2005.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Hellblazer [John Constantine]
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Pages: 1
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Credits, Indicia and Table of Contents

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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Table of contents, credits, and indicia.
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Pages: 1
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The Gangster, the Whore and the Magician

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine; Frank Bufo; Crazy Baldhead Ron; Sonja
First Line: Frank Bufo tapped the last of them into his puckered palm from the tin as he waited for Crazy Baldhead Ron to let her in.
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In Content Item: FlagHellblazer - Special Constantine DVD Issue #[nn] published April 2005
as The Gangster, the Whore and the Magician [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustrations.
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John Constantine

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine
First Line: John Constantine is as complex and fascinating figure as there comes: the most powerful magician of the modern age, his life has been blighted by sorrow, pain and death.
Synopsis: Information about John Constantine.
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Pages: 1
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Constantine Family

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Kon-Sten-Tyn; Pyotr Konstantin; Harry Constantine; James Constantine; Lady Johanna Constantine; Cheryl Masters; Gemma Masters; Golden Boy; Thomas Constantine; John Constantine
First Line: The first Constantine to pratice magic was the pagan KON-STEN-TYN, who was raised by Merlin and succeeded King Arthur to the English throne in the first century AD.
Synopsis: Information about John Constantine's relatives both past and present.
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Pages: 2
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The Swamp Thing

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Swamp Thing; Abby Holland
First Line: The Swamp Thing, perhaps the most important of John Constantine's many supernatural allies, was born in fire in the Lousiana bayou.
Synopsis: Information about Swamp Thing.
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Pages: 2
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The First of the Fallen

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): First of the Fallen
First Line: The First of the Fallen – the Devil – is by far John Constantine's most dangerous enemy.
Synopsis: Information about the First of the Fallen.
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Chas Chandler

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Chas Chandler
First Line: Frank William Chandler – better known as Chas, after Jimi Hendrix's one-time manager, Chas Chandler –is the closest thing John Constantine has to a best friend.
Synopsis: Information about Chas Chandler, John Constantine's best mate.
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Kit Ryan

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Kit Ryan
First Line: Katherine ("Kit") Ryan, one of the most significant figures in John Constantine's life, was born in Northern Ireland, in 1962, the second of five children.
Synopsis: Information about Kit Ryan.
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Pages: 1
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Newcastle

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine; Gary Lester; Anne-Marie; Astra Logue; Benjamin Cox; Frank North; Judith; Ritchie Simpson; Nergal
First Line: The terrifying events that occurred in Newcastle have haunted John Constantine for most of his life.
Synopsis: Information about Newcastle and some of the things John has done there.
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Pages: 1
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Zed, Marj & Mercury

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Zed; Marj; Mercury
First Line: Specially attuned to the primal forces of Earth magic, Zed, Marj and Merc are three of the most important women to inhabit John Constantine's world, who would come to the magician's aid as he reached a crucial turning point in his life.
Synopsis: Information on Zed, Marj and Mercury.
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Pages: 1
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Papa Midnight

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Papa Midnight
First Line: Papa Linton Midnight, a powerful crime lord and voodoo king was one of Constantine's most dangerous human adversaries.
Synopsis: Information on Papa Midnight.
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Pages: 1
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Nigel Archer, Header & The Rev. Rick Neilsen

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Nigel Archer; Header; Rick the Vic [Reverend Rick Neilsen]
First Line: Nige, Header and Rick the Vic, three of the most eccentric and colorful characters to figure in Constantine's world, hailed from wildly different backgrounds, but were united by their involvement in the occult and the friendship of John Constantine...
Synopsis: Information about Nigel Archer, Header and Reverend Rick Neilsen.
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The Trenchcoat Brigade

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Phantom Stranger; Doctor Occult; Mr. E; Timothy Hunter
First Line: Given their somewhat disparaging nickname by John Constantine on account of certain shared sartorial tastes, the Trenchcoat Brigade are four of the most powerful and enigmatic figures in the occult world...
Synopsis: Information about the Trenchcoat Brigade.
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Rich Eldridge, Michelle Hanson & Dani Wright

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): Rich Eldridge; Michelle Hanson; Dani Wright; Buer; Lofty; Muppet; Ivy Mae Eldridge; Syder Eldridge
First Line: Constantine first befriended Rich Eldridge during his Mucous Membrane days in the late seventies, when Rich fronted the punk band Fatal Gift.
Synopsis: Information about Rich Eldridge, Michelle Hanson and Dani Wright.
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Pages: 1
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Hellblazer Timeline

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine
First Line: 1953 - John Constantine is born in Liverpool to Thomas and Mary Anne Constantine on May 10.
Synopsis: A timeline of John Constantine's life.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: John Constantine's timeline with illustrations from covers of Hellblazer (DC, 1988 series) #1, #120, #129, and #138.
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The First Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine; Nergal
First Line: Here's the bit!
Synopsis: Nergal appears as a young boy to a very young John Constantine. He gives Constantine his very first cigarette.
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In Issue: FlagHellblazer de Brian Azzarello #1 published May 2009
In Content Item: FlagHellblazer - Special Constantine DVD Issue #[nn] published April 2005
as The First Time [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The origin of John's biggest vice.
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John Constantine's London

Character Profile  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
First Line: ...My name's John Constantine, and here I stay: haunted by London.
Synopsis: Map of London.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: John Constantine's haunts.
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Straight to Hell

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Character(s): John Constantine
First Line: A true story: In 1986, the English comics writer Alan Moore sat down at a table in a small cafe in Westminster, London, just a short walk from the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.
Synopsis: Discussion of the popularity of the John Constantine character and about his writers.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Constantine's past and present writers.

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