(December 1998)
DC,
1998 Series
- Price
- 2.50 USD; 3.75 CAD
- Pages
- 40
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1998-11-04
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- suggested for mature readers
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
Vertigo; DC Comics
- Barcode
- 761941215389 00111
- Editing
- Alisa Kwitney (editor); Shelly Bond (editor); Karen Berger (executive editor); Terri Cunningham (VP-managing editor); Jenette Kahn (editor-in-chief)
[The Girl Who Would Be Death #1]
The Dreaming / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Plath [Amelia]
- Reprints
-
in Vertigo Presenta (Magic Press, 2000 series) #1 (luglio 2000)
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- Keywords
- ankh; candles
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 10 pages
Indexer Notes
Gargantua video (20th Century Fox); U.S. Marshals & Sphere (Pay-Per-View); Inertia concert tour; MediEvil PlayStation game (Sony); Mega Gel (L’Oréal); Crash Bandicoot PlayStation game (Universal Interactive); Akuji PlayStation game (Crystal Dynamics)
The Girl Who Would Be Death, Act I
credits, title page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Title, credits and indicia page. Artwork is recolored version of art from first story page in this issue.
Preface
The Dreaming / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In February, I was approached by Alisa Kwitney, Shelly Roeberg and Karen Berger who wanted to know if I'd be interested in doing a miniseries about "a cult that worships Death of the Endless" and, after maybe five long seconds of consideration, I said yes
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Brother Hyena
Indexer Notes
Editorial explaining why Death [Teleute] will not be appearing in this "Death"-themed miniseries.
[The Girl Who Would Be Death, Act I]
The Dreaming / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Caitlín Kiernan
- Pencils
- Dean Ormston
- Inks
- Dean Ormston
- Colors
- Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh
- Letters
- Fiona Stephenson
- Editing
- Neil Gaiman (consultant)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- An unseasonably cold night in March and this is where we start.
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Bruno; Plath [Amelia] (introduction); Vangie [Evangeline Arbogast] (introduction); Billy [William Brochu] (introduction); Echo; Siobhan (introduction); Ashaira (introduction); Johann Kepler (cameo); Cotton Mather (cameo); Roderick Burgess (cameo); Sandman [Morpheus] (cameo); Adolf Hitler (cameo)
- Synopsis
- New Orleans goth nightclub owner acquires Death's lost ankh.
- Reprints
- in Vertigo Presenta (Magic Press, 2000 series) #1 (luglio 2000) [tradotta]
-
- Keywords
- Death's Ankh; Magdalene Grimoire; New Orleans
Indexer Notes
Story takes place between The Dreaming (DC, 1996 series) #24 & 36.
[no title indexed]
advertisement / 4 pages
Indexer Notes
glossy paper advertising insert: Lost in Space video (New Line); Batman toy cars (ARC); Vampire: The Masquerade; Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, The (White Wolf Publishing)
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[The Girl Who Would Be Death #1]
The Dreaming -
1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
The Girl Who Would Be Death, Act I
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3.
Preface
The Dreaming -
4.
[The Girl Who Would Be Death, Act I]
The Dreaming -
5.
[no title indexed]
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6.
Batman: Animated
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7.
Free Mega Poster from Studio Line
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Vik-Thor Rose
- R S
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
- David Whitten
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