Comic Title: John Constantine Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 1992
On Sale Date: August 11, 1992 Shipping Date August 11, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #6 (#42)

Direct Market Date August 14, 1992
Source: Usenet, Capital City : New Releases-8/14/92

Shipping Date August 11, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #55

Direct Market Date August 13, 1992
Source: Comic Shop News, #267

Copyright Date August 11, 1992
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1992

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 176
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

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 From:
Hellblazer #7 (1988)

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.