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John Constantine Hellblazer: Tainted Love TPB #[nn] (1998) · The Collector

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John Constantine Hellblazer: Tainted Love TPB (1998)
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John Constantine Hellblazer: Tainted Love TPB

John Constantine Hellblazer: Tainted Love TPB #[nn]

Down All the Days / Rough Trade / Tainted Love / Heartland / Finest Hour / Confessional

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: September 1998
On sale: Jul 1, 1998
Cover price: $16.95
Pages: 180
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers

Key issue

1st appearance of Killy
1st appearance of the Weasel
1st appearance of Sue
1st appearance of Andy
1st appearance of Kernahan
1st appearance of Darius
1st appearance of Stuart : Mary
1st appearance of Davy
1st appearance of Billy
1st appearance of William Constantine
1st appearance of Ken Wilson

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DirectMain
Printing not stated · Direct · $16.95

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The King of the Vampires watches John Constantine while he sleeps and remembers when he tasted his first Constantine, John's grandfather, William, in 1916. The King of the Vampires offers Constantine the choice to become a vampire, but he rejects it. After explaining his existential reasons, the vampire thrusts his fangs into John's neck, but what he doesn't know is Constantine has demon's blood in his veins. The vampire suffers from the demon's poison, convulses on the ground, and eventually explodes in flames by the light of dawn.

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Credits

Writer: Garth Ennis
Penciller: Steve Dillon
Inker: Steve Dillon
Colorists: Tom Ziuko, Stuart Chaifetz
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino
Covers: Glenn Fabry, Tony Luke
Cover colors: Glenn Fabry
Assistant editor original series: Julie Rottenberg
Executive editor: Karen Berger
Others: Bob Kahan, Rick Taylor, Stuart Moore

Characters

Andy· 1st appearance
Billy· 1st appearance
Darius· 1st appearance
Davy· 1st appearance
Ken Wilson· 1st appearance
Kernahan· 1st appearance
Killy· 1st appearance
Stuart : Mary· 1st appearance
Sue· 1st appearance
The Weasel· 1st appearance
William Constantine· 1st appearance
Annette
Barbara
Chas Chandler
Coney
John Constantine
Kit
Kit Ryan· Cameo
Martha
Mary
Seth
the King of the Vampires
The Third of the Three

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