Hellblazer Annual #1
Story title(s)
'The Bloody Saint'/'Venus of the Hardsell'
Cover
Script
Art
Bryan Talbot ('The Bloody Saint'), Dean Motter ('Venus of the Hardsell')
Colours
Lovern Kindzierski
Letters
Todd Klein
Editor
Karen Berger (editor), Art Young (associate editor)
Cover date
1989
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John Constantine: Hellblazer Annual #1 (Month and year) 1982: Constantine is released for the fourth time from Ravenscar Secure Facility. Teetering on the edge of another nervous breakdown, he meets a strange woman outside the House of Commons before drifting into a vision of Kon-stan-tyn, a distant ancestor and the last of the pagan kings.
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Continuity
- First Appearances: Patrick "Destructo Vermin Gobsmack" McDonell AKA Martin Peters (an old punk associate of Constantine's), Kon-stan-tyn AKA The Bloody Saint (one of Constantine's ancestors; a pagan warrior king).
- Cameos: Margaret Thatcher , (former British Prime Minister); Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ); Merlin (one of many in the DC Universe); King Arthur .
- Backup feature: a six-page "music video" to Mucous Membrane's punk "classic" Venus of the Hardsell.
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