The Darkness
#18
(November 1998)
Image,
1996 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 4.00 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1998
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Image Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Top Cow Productions, Inc.; Image [together]
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- David Wohl (credited) (editor); Sonia Im (credited) (associate editor); Peter Steigerwald (credited) (prodynascator of rebogdianly fujiditous lechyorsvantisim); Nick Chun (credited) (productioneer); Raul Arroyo (credited) (productioneer); Alvin Coats (credited) (productioneer); Brian McClendon (credited) (productioneer); Robin Spehar (credited) (productioneer)
Issue Notes
Peter Steigerwald is generally credited for design.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
The Darkness / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Benitez (credited) (signed as
Benitez [half letters]) - Inks
- Joe Weems (credited as Joe Weems V) (signed as
WEEMS) - Colors
- Liquid! (credited) (signed as
LIQUID!)
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Darkness [Jackie Estacado]; The Magdalena [Sister Mariella]; Darklings
- Reprints
-
in Darkness (Semic S.A., 1997 series) #10 -
in Darkness (Egmont, 2000 series) #4 -
in The Darkness (Juniorpress, 1997 series) #9 (1999) -
in The Darkness (Image, 2001 series) #3 - Original Sin (December 2004) - in The Magdalena (Image, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006)
- in The Complete Darkness (Image, 2021 series) #1 (January 2021)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for The Darkness (1996 series) #18 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1290/w100/1290997.jpg?3918489036963609985)
[no title indexed]
The Darkness / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Malachy Coney (credited) (story); Joe Benitez (credited) (assists); Marcia Chen (credited) (assists)
- Pencils
- Joe Benitez (credited); Brian Ching (credited) (assists); Keu Cha (credited) (assists)
- Inks
- Joe Weems (credited as Joe Weems V); John Livesay (credited as Livesay); Marlo Alquiza (credited); Marco Galli (credited as Marco "Madman" Galli) (assists)
- Colors
- Matt Nelson (credited); Richard Isanove (credited); Richard Horie (credited); Tanya Horie (credited); J. D. Smith (credited as Jonathan D. Smith)
- Letters
- Dennis Heisler (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can still hardly believe it.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jackie Estacado (guest) (as The Darkness); The Darkness [Jackie Estacado]; The Magdalena [Sister Mariella]; Cardinal Innocent; Father Jasper; Appolonia Franchetti; Isaac; Agnes
- Synopsis
- The Magdalena fails in her mission to kill Jackie and returns to her base. She is met by the Sisters of the Order of Magdalene who perform the Holy Rite of Consignment to prepare her properly for her role. But Jackie has tracked down the Magdalena and leaves her and the sisters crucified as a warning to those who sent her to kill him.
- Reprints
- in Darkness (Semic S.A., 1997 series) #10
- in The Darkness (Juniorpress, 1997 series) #9 (1999)
- in The Darkness (Image, 2001 series) #3 - Original Sin (December 2004)
- in The Magdalena (Image, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006)
- in The Complete Darkness (Image, 2021 series) #1 (January 2021)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Darkness -
1.
["I can still hardly believe it."]
The Darkness -
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Corrupted Correspondence [l]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ken Austin
- Steve Belknap
- Genevieve Halton
- Adam Knights
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Mark Q
- Jim Van Dore
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