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Children's Crusade 1

CHILDREN'S CRUSADE #1

Cover Date: December 1993
Cover Price: $3.95

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Cover Credits:
Art: John Totleben (signed}


Story: "The Children's Crusade" (58 Pages)
"Chapter One: Nine Days' Wonder"
"Chapter Two: True Detective Stories"
"Chapter Three: The Innocents"
"Chapter Four: The Fat Begins to Fry"
"Chapter Five: The Piper and the Gate"
"Chapter Six: Charles Rowland to the Dark Tower Came"
"Chapter Seven: The Hole"
"Chapter Eight: What Comes Out of the Chimney?"

Credits:

StoryNeil Gaiman
PencilsChris Bachalo
InksMike Barreiro
LetteringJohn Costanza
ColorsDaniel Vozzo
Consulting editingLou Stathis, Tom Peyer
Assistant editingJulie Rottenberg
EditingStuart Moore

Feature Character(s):

Charles Rowland (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #25; next in Swamp Thing Annual Vol. 2 #7)
Edwin Paine (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #25; next in Swamp Thing Annual Vol. 2 #7)

Supporting Character(s):

Tefé Holland (last in ???; next in Swamp Thing Annual Vol. 2 #7)
Suzy (in between flashback and main story in Black Orchid Annual Vol. 2 #1)
Maxine Baker (last in Animal Man #66; next in Animal Man Annual #1)
Tim Hunter (last in Mister E #4; next in Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual #1)

Villain(s):

An unnamed monk (first appearance; in flashback to 1212)

Other Character(s):

The founding inhabitants of Free Country:
Aiken Drum (first appearance; also in flashback to 1213)
Wat (first appearance; also in flashback to 1213)
Jumping Joan (first appearance; also in flashback to 1213)
Kerwyn (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next in Doom Patrol Annual Vol. 2 #2)
Daniel (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next in Doom Patrol Annual Vol. 2 #2)
Lian (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next in Doom Patrol Annual Vol. 2 #2)
Junkin Buckley (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next in Black Orchid Annual Vol. 2 #1)
Jack Rabbit (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next in Animal Man Annual #1)
Peter Puck (first appearance; in flashback to 1213; next Swamp Thing Annual Vol. 2 #7)
Avril Mitchell (first appearance; a young girl of Flaxdown)
Mwyfany (first appearance; Aiken Drum's sister; dies in flashback to 1213)
Yolinde (first appearance; dies in flashback to 1213)
Jacomo (first appearance; dies in flashback to 1213)
Maureen Parsons (first appearance; an inhabitant of Flaxdown)
Robert Browning (in flashback to late 19th century)

Comment(s):

Story continues in Black Orchid Annual Vol. 2 #1.

Solicitation:

When all the children of an English village mysteriously vanish, Rowland and Paine, the Dead Boy Detectives, investigate the disappearances and learn of the existence of the otherworldly Free Country and a mysterious plot that involves several young beings of power.


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