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Issue: The Children's Crusade #1
Publication Date: December 1993
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Issues: #1 of 2 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested For Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Vertigo; DCView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/28/1993
Volume:
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194120102300111
Price: $4.95 CAD
£2.50 GBP
$3.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: limited series
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Children Missing

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dead Boy Detectives [Charles Rowland; Edwin Paine]
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In Issue: FlagNeil Gaiman: Leyendas del Abismo #1 published September 2012
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Pages: 1
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The Children's Crusade

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Chapter One: Nine Days' Wonder

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Genres: fantasy
First Line: Later, the newspapers were to describe Flaxdown as a fairytale village.
Synopsis: All children from Flaxdown disappear.
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Pages: 5
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Chapter Two: True Detective Stories

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dead Boy Detectives [Charles Rowland; Edwin Paine]; Avril Mitchell
First Line: I-like-coff-ee-I-like-tea-I-want-Ju-lia-in-with-me...
Synopsis: Avril hires the Charles and Edwin to find her brother who disappeared with the rest of the children from Flaxdown.
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Chapter Three: The Innocents

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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
First Line: The year was 1212, and the Fifth Crusade was coming to an end...
Synopsis: The back story of the Children's Crusade. In the crusades of 1212, 50,000 children were sent to battle and none returned. An old monk was involved.
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Chapter Four: The Fat Begins to Fry

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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dead Boy Detectives [Charles Rowland; Edwin Paine]; Jumping Joan
Synopsis: Charles and Edwin appear to be ghosts and travel to Flaxdown to find clues to the missing children.
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Pages: 8
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Chapter Five: The Piper and the Gate

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Robert Browning; Pied Piper (flashback)
First Line: Hamelin town's in Brunswick, by famous Hanover city.
Synopsis: The back story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is told.
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Chapter Six: Charles Rowland to the Dark Tower Came

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Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dead Boy Detectives [Charles Rowland; Edwin Paine]; Tefé Holland; Black Orchid [Suzy Linden]; Dorothy Spinner; Maxine Baker; Tim Hunter
First Line: You know, I bet there are fingerprints on here.
Synopsis: Charles has a vision of the Vertigo children; he needs to help them cross the frontier.
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Chapter 7: The Hole

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Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Aiken Drum
First Line: Right. I'm Aiken Drum, I am, and this is my telling.
Synopsis: A back story of the Children's Crusade; the children from the crusades disappear from confinement by playing hopscotch.
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Pages: 6
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Chapter Eight: What Comes Out of the Chimney?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Dead Boy Detectives [Charles Rowland; Edwin Paine]; Wat
First Line: What are the alternatives then?
Synopsis: Charles and Edwin accidentally summon a girl who tells them children are in Free Country but she does not take them there.
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Pages: 9

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