Comic Title: John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Fear Machine TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2012
On Sale Date: June 20, 2012 Direct Market Date June 20, 2012
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Direct Market Date June 20, 2012
Source: Previews, #282

Cover Price: $24.99
Page Count: 240
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Hate Mail & Love Letters"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: Mark Buckingham
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted From:
Hellblazer #18 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #17; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Marj (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Errol (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; next appearance in Hellblazer #21)
• Zed (last appearance in Hellblazer #10; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Chas (last appearance in Hellblazer #6; next appearance in Sandman #3)
• Geoff Talbot (a police inspector; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Mercury (last appearance in Hellblazer #17; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Simon Hughes (a journalist; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Phillip Fulton (last appearance in Hellblazer #17; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• The director of Geotroniks (last appearance in Hellblazer #16; next appearance in Hellblazer #20)
• Mr. Webster (last appearance in Hellblazer #17; next appearance in Hellblazer #20)

Other Character(s)

• Ken and Harold (hotel employees; next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Followers of the Pagan Nation (next appearance in Hellblazer #19)
• Joanie (Talbot's wife; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Corbett (a test subject; next appearance in Hellblazer #20)

Comments:
The Fear Machine, Part V

This story takes place two months after the train crash in Hellblazer #17.

This story continues in Hellblazer #19.

Synopsis:
After two months in London, John Constantine finally gets a lead that might help him find Mercury. He runs into police detective Geoff Talbot in a bar. He learns two things from Talbot. First, he is not wanted by the police. His name was given to the press, but the police do not consider him a murder suspect. Second, Talbot was investigating dirty cops known as the Black Squad who kidnapped Mercury. Talbot has been receiving threatening letters for investigating his own. The letters lead his wife to suicide.

John also learns that a guest in the hotel where he is staying, Simon Hughes, is a journalist investigating Geotroniks. When John goes to Simon's room he finds him hung in a closet to die.