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MONOLITH #1
Cover Date: April 2004
Cover Price: $3.50
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Cover Credits:
Art: Phil Winslade
Colors: Chris Chuckry (Signed)
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Credits:
| Story | Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray |
| Art | Phil Winslade |
| Lettering | Nick J. Napolitano |
| Colors | Chris Chuckry |
| Color separations | Chris Chuckry |
| Assistant editing | Harvey Richards |
| Editing | Joey Cavalieri |
Feature Character(s):
- Monolith (first appearance; also in flashback preceding flashback in issue #2; also called Peter; heart created from the bloodstained dirt under Peter's dead body)
Supporting Character(s):
- Alice Cohen II (first appearance; a drug addict)
- Tilt (first appearance; a prostitute and drug addict)
- Lylo Janos (first appearance; a lawyer of Friedman and Associates)
- Alice Cohen I (first appearance; a seamstress and grandmother of the modern day Alice; in flashback to 1932 preceding flashback in issue #2)
- Han (first appearance; a Chinese immigrant and carpenter; in flashback preceding flashback in issue #2)
- Peter (first appearance; a bootlegger; dies in flashback)
- Rabbi Rava (first appearance; a Polish immigrant; in flashback preceding flashback in issue #2)
Villain(s):
- Prince (Princeton; first appearance; a drug dealer and pimp)
- Fuji (first appearance; one of Prince's goons; called Fugi in this issue)
- Johnny "Bull" Jenkins (first appearance; a bootlegger; dies in flashback)
- Tony Greene (first appearance; a bootlegger; dies in flashback)
- Irish Jack (first appearance; a bootlegger; dies in flashback)
- Jacob Berman (first appearance; a robber; dies)
- Chet (first appearance; a robber; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Maury (first appearance; a holocaust survivor; dies)
- Millie (first appearance; Maury's wife; dies)
- Mr. Rogers (first appearance; an acquaintance of Alice)
- Tyrell (first appearance; a drug addict)
- Meg (first appearance; a prostitute)
Comment(s):
- This story has two running plots. One set in the modern day and one set in the Prohibition-era.
Synopsis: - During the great Depression, corruption and crime run amuck. After witnessing a murder of a friend, a rabbi, a Chinese carpenter, and Alice, a young seamstress, bring to life a golem in order to seek revenge. In a tunnel beneath Brooklyn, the golem catches up with the murders.
In the modern day, down and out drug addict, Alice Cohen, discovers that she has inherited a house from her grandmother Alice on the condition that she does not sell the house and gets off drugs. Drug dealer Prince is stalking her. Once in the house, Alice begins to hear voices from behind a brick wall in the basement. There she finds her grandmother's journal.