Occult Detective Fiction

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Hellblazer, Hellboy, The Champions, Carnacki, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Dylan Dog, Devlin Waugh, Criminal Macabre: A Cal McDonald Mystery, Gravel, Doctor Spektor, Dark Detectives, In a Glass Darkly, Judge Pursuivant, Number Seven, Queer Street, Simon Iff, John Thunstone, The World Beyond, Bix Barton, Steve Harrison, Jules de Grandin, The World of Darkness. Excerpt: Hellblazer, also known as John Constantine: Hellblazer, is a contemporary horror comic book series published by DC Comics. It has been under the Vertigo imprint since issue #63, the month the imprint was introduced. Its central character is the streetwise magician John Constantine. It has been published continuously since January 1988, and is Vertigo's longest running title, the only remaining publication from the imprint's launch. After favorable reader reaction to John Constantine's appearances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by Alan Moore during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic book series in 1988. The series was intended to bear the title Hellraiser, but this title was revised before publication due to the contemporaneous release of Clive Barker's unrelated film of the same name. The initial creative team was writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with Dave McKean supplying distinctive painted and collage covers. Delano introduced a political aspect to the character: ..".generally I was interested in commenting on 1980s Britain. That was where I was living, it was shit, and I wanted to tell everybody." The book, originally published as a regular DC Comics title, became a Vertigo title with the imprint's launch in March 1993 (issue #63 of the series). It is the only title published during the imprint's launch that continues to be published today. It has recently been announced...