Promethea #2

(July 2001)

["Sophie Bangs lives in a present-day New York City similar to our own, ...."] (Table of Contents)

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Indexer Notes

A synopsis of the stories collected in this volume.

[Promethea Book 2] (Table of Contents)

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Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

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typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]

Indexer Notes

Title page with spot illo of five Prometheas.

[Promethea Collected Edition Book 2] (Table of Contents)

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credits and indicia

Chapter One (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

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typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page

Was I a Living Legend...Or a "Love Cheat?" (Table of Contents)

Promethea / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Wildstorm FX

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Dirk Dangerfeld

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #7 (April 2000)

Indexer Notes

The cover is a homage to various romance comics.

Rocks and Hard Places (Table of Contents)

Promethea / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III (pp 1-11, 21-24); Jose Villarrubia (digital art, pp 11-21)

Inks:

Mick Gray (pp 1-11, 21-24); Jose Villarrubia (digital art, pp 11-21)

Colors:

Jeromy Cox (pp 1-11, 21-24); Jose Villarrubia (digital art, pp 11-21)

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Kenneth, Stan, Marv); Patricia "Trish" Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Sophie Bangs; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Mayor Sonny Baskerville; Benny Solomon; the Goetia (Buer, Stolas, Ronove, Bael, Asmoday, Marchosias, Andras); the Painted Doll; the Universe; Bill Woolcott (flashback); Dirk Dangerfeld (cameo); young Dennis Drucker (flashback); Dennis Drucker; Prometheus

Synopsis:

Sophie continues her education and her journey through the Immateria. She meets Bill, and learns of his life and of the meaning of Pentacles. In the material world, Sophie's mom, the mayor of New York, the Painted Doll, and Benny Solomon and the Goetia all converge on the hospital where Sophie lies unconscious, as does Marv of the Five Swell Guys. Bill returns Sophie to her body and consciousness just as the Painted Doll and the Goetia begin separate assaults on the hospital.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #7 (April 2000)

Chapter Two (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page with spot illo

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Promethea / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Alex Sinclair

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Sophie Bangs

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #8 (July 2000)

Indexer Notes

cover homage to Terry Gilliam

Guys and Dolls (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

the Goetia (Buer, Stolas, Ronove, Bael, Asmoday, Marchosias, Andras); Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Kenneth, Stan, Marv); Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Barbara Shelley]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Little Margie; Promethea [Margaret Case]; the Painted Doll; Benny Solomon (dies); Sophie Bangs; Trish Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Mayor Sonny Baskerville; Barbara Shelley

Synopsis:

As the Goetia and the Painted Doll continue their assualt on the hospital, Sophie manifests Grace, Bill, and Margaret into the bodies of Stacia, her Trish, and a nurse; while Barbara returns to her own body. Together, the five Promethea's repel the assault. In the battle's aftermath, however, Barbara collapses.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #8 (July 2000)

Chapter Three (Table of Contents)

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Credits

Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page with spot illo

Bringing Down the Temple (Table of Contents)

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Credits

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Alex Sinclair

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #9 (September 2000)

Bringing Down the Temple! (Table of Contents)

Promethea / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Barbara Shelley (corpse); the Painted Doll (cameo); Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo); Weeping Gorilla (cameo); Kenneth of the Five Swell Guys; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Little Margie; Jack Faust; the Temple (Henry Royce, Teddy, Pru); the Pied Piper

Synopsis:

Barbara Shelley dies; and Sophie is determined to get revenge. As Promethea, she finally tracks down the Temple, only to discover that they're three feeble senior citizens who think they're guarding the world from her.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #9 (September 2000)

Chapter Four (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page with spot illo

Sex, Stars & Serpents (Table of Contents)

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Credits

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Jack Faust; Little Margie; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Mata Hari; Billie Holiday;
William Blake; Andrew Eldritch; Bettie Page; Aleister Crowley; David Bowie; Oscar Wilde; Winsor McCay; Janis Joplin; Clara Bow; Timothy Leary; H.P. Lovecraft; Orson Welles; Rita Hayworth; Albert Einstein; Lucille Ball (with cake batter all over her face); young Austin Osman Spare; Charles Fort; Dorothy and Toto from the Wizard of Oz; the little man in the red suit from Twin Peaks

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #10 (October 2000)

Indexer Notes

cover homage to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; background figures are more visible in original artwork at inker Mick Gray's site: http://www.mickgray.net/pm10.html

Sex, Stars & Serpents (Table of Contents)

Promethea / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy N. Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Sophie Bangs; Jack Faust; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Weeping Gorilla (cameo); Stacia van der Veer; Innana; Ereshkigal; Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo)

Synopsis:

Sophie agrees to have sex with Jack Faust as Promethea. In exchange, he introduces her to magic.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #10 (October 2000)

Chapter Five (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

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J. H. Williams III

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typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page with spot illo

Under Attack! (Table of Contents)

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Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #11 (December 2000)

Indexer Notes

cover homage to '50s B-movie movie posters

Pseunami (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Jeromy Cox

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Stan, Marv, Kenneth); Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo); Weeping Gorilla (cameo)

Synopsis:

New Year's Eve, 1999. As the New Year breaks, a Y2K bug causes a malfunction in the popular Elasta-Gel technology, and Sophie must fight an Elasta-Gel creature with the help of the Five Swell Guys.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #11 (December 2000)

Indexer Notes

entire story printed landscape

Chapter Six (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

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typography

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

title page with spot illo

The Magic Theatre: A Pop Art Happening (Table of Contents)

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Credits

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

Todd Klein

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #12 (February 2001)

Indexer Notes

cover homage to rock art poster artist Bonnie MacLean

Metaphore (Table of Contents)

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Credits

Script:

Alan Moore

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray; J. H. Williams III

Colors:

Jeromy Cox (colors); Jose Villarrubia (painted colors)

Letters:

Todd Klein

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Aleister Crowley

Synopsis:

Promethea continues her magical education. She learns the syymbolic meanings of the Tarot's major arcana, which tell a metaphorical story about the history of the universe and mankind.

Reprints:

• from Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #12 (February 2001)

Indexer Notes

Like the last two issues, and the next 13, this issue is an experiment in form. The story is told in the form of 24 splash pages. Each of the pages contains nine scrabble tiles, with the letters P-R-O-M-E-T-H-E-A rearranged on each page to form a different word or phrase illustrating a point. Pages 2-23 each feature a card of the major arcana (cards 0-21), each of which plays a symbolic part in the story being told, with Sophie the witness and the snakes on her caduceus the tour guides. Along the bottom of each page a separate, but intertwined story takes place, in the form of an extended joke told by Aleister Crowley, who grows from a fetus through childhood, adulthood, old age, and a corpse over the course of 24 pages. The Crowley illustrations feature painted colors by Villarrubia, while the rest of the page features traditional colors by Cox.

Dedications (Table of Contents)

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Script:

Alan Moore; J. H. Williams III; Mick Gray; ?

Pencils:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph); ? (photograph)

Inks:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph); ? (photograph)

Colors:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph); ? (photograph)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Dedications and creator photographs and biographies. The Moore photograph is by Gebbie; the Williams and Gray photographs are uncredited.

America's Best Comics Collected Editions (Table of Contents)

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Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

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?

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?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Promethea [Sophie Bangs]

Indexer Notes

ad for other ABC collections, with spot illo (a reprise of the spot illo for the Chapter One title page, with color)

[untitled] (Table of Contents)

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Script:

?

Pencils:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph)

Inks:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph)

Colors:

Melinda Gebbie (photograph)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

biography

Characters:

Alan Moore (photograph)

Indexer Notes

Creator biographies.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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Script:

?

Pencils:

J. H. Williams III

Inks:

Mick Gray

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Sophie Bangs; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; the Painted Doll; Buer; Jack Faust; Staca van der Veer; the Five Swell Guys (Stan, Kenneth, Bob, Roger, Marv); Weeping Gorilla (cameo)

Reprints:

• in Promethea Covers Special (DC, 2005 series) #[nn] ([August] 2005) [back cover]