From Sandman to Scalped: A Complete Infographic History of Vertigo ComicsLaura Hudson
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Unrevealed, but has centuries of practice in magic Place of Origin Unrevealed Identity No dual identity Known Relatives Unidentified former husband,Nicholas Scratch(son), Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Reptilla, Thornn, Vakume, Vertigo (Salem’s Seven, grandchildren), Abigail Harkness (unspecified rela...
Annotated bibliography of fictional timelines from television shows, movies, books, games, and comics.
DC debuted a new line--"Vertigo"--offering innovative graphic stories to adult readers of nontraditional comics. The psychologically compelling, cutting-edge titles ranged from science fiction to horror to dark fantasy. July 1994 saw year-old Milestone Media--publishers of Icon, Static, Kobalt, ...
plans to write a book about DC, but the news of [influential, long-time editor of DC’s Vertigo line] Karen Bergerdepartingdid get me thinking. I’m really interested in the story of DC in the 1980s especially, but I spent a lot of my life thinking about Marvel Comics in particular...
In the Vertigo comics series, The Sandman, the character Desire of The Endless is generally illustrated to resemble a Nagel print, specifically the portrait used for the band Duran Duran's Rio album cover. Neil Gaiman, the creator of the series and character, had previously written a biography...
Vertigo and continuity reboots DC attempted to address the growing market for mature readers with its Piranha Press imprint. Launched in 1989 with the ongoing title Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Piranha was a bold, if not entirely successful, experiment in creator-owned content. The imprint...
(1989–96), featuring the dream lord Morpheus. While the events of Sandman transpired within the so-called DC universe, uniformed superheroes were mostly absent. Gaiman’s series was the cornerstone of DC’s Vertigo imprint, which featured avant-garde antiheroes like John Constantine (later to ...
a neural disruption beam (which could induce vertigo or paralysis), a force field generator, a hollow belly for storing consumed cookies, a portable workshop with “giftmaker-transmogrifier” (carried in a sack), and a rocket-powered “proton sleigh” that projected its own team of holographic...