Comic Title: Hellblazer #7
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: July 1988
On Sale Date: March 22, 1988 Shipping Date March 22, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137

Copyright Date March 22, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Ghosts in the Machine"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Artist: John Ridgway
Penciller: Brett Ewins
Inker: Jim McCarthy
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
John Constantine Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB (1992)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB (2011)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Swamp Thing #74)

Supporting Character(s)

• Zed (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)
• Ray Monde (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Ritchie Simpson (first appearance; dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #11; next appearance in Hellblazer #12)
• Emma (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Gary Lester (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Frank North (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Benjamin Cox (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)
• Sister Anne-Marie (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #2; next appearance in Hellblazer #9)

Villain(s)

• God's Warriors (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)
• Elder Martin (name not revealed in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #4; next appearance in Hellblazer #8)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Hellblazer #6 and continues in part in Hellblazer #8. John appears briefly in Swamp Thing #74 between stories.

Synopsis:
John Constantine visits his friend and computer expert Ritchie Simpson to get more information on the Resurrection Crusaders. Ritchie is able to send his mind into the computer in an attempt to hack into the Crusuders' accounts. He encounters safeguards that protect the data. The traps cause Ritchie's body to catch fire. John puts out the fire, but the body is destroyed. Ritchie's mind is then trapped in the computer which John unplugs.

John leaves and boards a train. He is haunted by the spirits of his dead friends and associates. To escape them John opens a door. He steps through without looking and falls from the train.

Meanwhile Zed is staying with John's friend Ray. The Crusaders break into the house, kill Ray, and kidnap Zed.