Cover Credits |
Artist: Dave McKean |
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Comic Title: Hellblazer #4
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: April 1988
On Sale Date:
December 15, 1987 Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #47
Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131
Copyright Date December 15, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger
Story |
Title: "Waiting for the Man"
Pages: 24
Feature(s):
Hellblazer
Writer: Jamie Delano
Artist: John Ridgway
Letterer: Annie Parkhouse (Halfacree)
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 #3; next appearance in Hellblazer #5)
Supporting Character(s)
- Chas (last appearance in Hellblazer #1; next appearance in Hellblazer #6)
- Zed (first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #6)
- Gemma Masters (John's niece; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #31)
- Cheryl Masters (John's sister; first appearance; last appearance in Hellblazer #13; next appearance in Hellblazer #29)
Villain(s)
- A child killer (a member of the Damnation Army; no further appearances)
- Kenny and Wayne (last appearance in Hellblazer #1; next appearance in Hellblazer #6)
Other Character(s)
- The spirits of three dead girls (no further appearances)
- God's Warriors (a religious group; next appearance in Hellblazer #6)
- Tony Masters (Gemma's father; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #31)
- Several pool players (Harry named; no further appearances)
- An unnamed boy (no further appearances)
- Elder Martin (first appearance; a leader in the Resurrection Crusaders; next appearance in Hellblazer #7)
Synopsis:
John Constantine meets Zed, a mysterious woman. He takes her to dinner, then they go back to her place. Before their night can go any further John hears a radio news bulletin announcing that his niece Gemma Masters has gone missing.
John and Zed drive to his sister's house in Liverpool. Cheryl, John's sister, and her husband Tony have become involved with a religious group. They moved Gemma to a new town where she was unhappy. The spirits of three dead girls were able to lure her to the home of their killer.
John performs a divining spell that leads him to the area of Gemma's disappearance. Zed creates an automatic drawing of the killer's house. John finds a boy that leads him to the house. He and Zed then rescue Gemma from the killer. A group from the religious group called God's Warriors then burn down the killer's house. Before leaving John and Zed see the words Damnation Army tattooed on the killer's chest.
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