Comic Title: John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Devil You Know TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: May 16, 2007 Direct Market Date May 9, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #2 (#218)

Direct Market Date May 16, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 264
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "On the Beach"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: Richard Piers Rayner
Inker: Mark Buckingham
Artist: Mike Hoffman
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted From:
Hellblazer #13 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #12; next appearance in Hellblazer #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Cheryl Masters (in flashback to John's childhood; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #35)

Other Character(s)

• A mother and her two children (no further appearances)
• Tony and his girlfriend (no further appearances)
• Thomas Constantine (name not revealed in this story; in flashback; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #31)
• A group of protestors (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• John Constantine (during his childhood; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #35)

Synopsis:
John Constantine visits the beach where he spent more innocent days as a child. A group of protestors make noise because they oppose the nearby nuclear power plant. John then falls asleep.

He dreams that the nuclear plant explodes. He and the other people on the beach receive a lethal dose of radiation. A mother takes her two children into the water to die. John and a young woman are left alone to die. He gets her pregnant and eventually she gives birth to a two-headed baby seal. The baby is then killed by the animated skeletons of the dead sea gulls.

After he himself becomes a skeleton and walks into the ocean, John awakens haunted by his own nightmares.