Providence #5 [Regular Cover - Jacen Burrows]

(September 2015)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Title page and credits. Background reproduces the northern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island.

V: In the Walls (Table of Contents: 2)

Providence / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Alan Moore (credited)

Pencils

Jacen Burrows (credited)

Inks

Jacen Burrows (credited)

Colors

Juan Manuel Rodriguez (credited as Juan Rodríguez)

Letters

Kurt Hathaway (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

So, this is your only time in Manchester, Mr. ... Black, did you say?

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; horror-suspense

Characters

Robert Black; Father Walter Race; Dr. Hector North; Elspeth Wade; Mrs. Macey [Hekeziah Massey]; Agent Frank Stubbs; James Montague; Mr. Jenkins

Synopsis

Traveling to Manchester, New England, writer Robert Black's nerves are badly shaken after investigating the crash of a strange meteor.

Reprints

• in Providence (Avatar Press, 2016 series) #2
• in Providence (Panini España, 2016 series) #2 - El abismo del tiempo ([Octubre 2016])
• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

Indexer Notes

The characters and situations in this issue are primarily based on H. P. Lovecraft's stories "The Dreams in the Witch-House", "The Colour Out of Space", and "Herbert West - Reanimator". The title is taken from Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls" although the incidents of that story are not referenced here.

[Commonplace Book] (Table of Contents: 3)

Providence / text story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Alan Moore (credited)

Letters

Kurt Hathaway (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

even so I'm still in something of a funk.

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Robert Black; Mr. Jenkins; Father Walter Race; Dr. Hector North; Elspeth Wade; Mrs. Macey [Hekeziah Massey]; Agent Frank Stubbs; James Montague

Synopsis

Robert Black continues writing in his Commonplace Book, giving his narration and impressions of the events seen in this issue's comic story.

Reprints

• in Providence (Avatar Press, 2016 series) #2
• in Providence (Panini España, 2016 series) #2 - El abismo del tiempo ([Octubre 2016])
• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Providence / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

The inside back cover reproduces the southern half of an old map of Providence, Rhode island.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Providence / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

H. P. Lovecraft

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Providence l'intégrale (Panini France, 2018 series) (août 2018)

Indexer Notes

The back cover is an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote to Lillian D. Clark in 1928.