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| DC launched the Vertigo imprint under group editor Karen Berger, dedicated to more sophisticated story telling aimed at adults. Doom Patrol (64), Shade the Changing Man (33), Hellblazer (63), Animal Man (57), Swamp Thing (129) and Sandman (47) were moved over to the new imprint as a number of new mini series were lined up to jump start the line. Unlike the regular DC Timeline, this table attempts to include all the Vertigo titles, so if I missed any, please drop me a line. Comments |
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The Witching Hour |
Jan 00-
Mar 00 |
1-3 | Edited by Karen Berger. By Jeff Loeb and Chris Bachelo. Amanda Collins. Supernatural fun in modern day New York City. |
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Jan 00 | 1 | Hardcover by Hy Bender. Examination of the Sandman phenomenon, with critical commentary and essays. Edited by Karen Berger. |
Winter's Edge III |
Jan 00 | 1 | Annual Holiday sampler. 80 pages, edited by Shelly Roberg. |
Sleepy Hollow |
Jan 00 | 1 | Movie adaption. Steven Seagle and Kelly Jones. Edited by Joan Hilty. |
Preacher: Tall In the Saddle |
Feb 00 | 1 | Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon produce another 48 page special. Edited by Axel Alonso |
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Feb 00 | 1 | To celebrate the turn of the Millenium Vertigo Style, the first ever Vertigo fifth week event. First, Tom Peyer and Duncan Fegredo bring together all the Vertigo mainstays: Swamp Thing, Black Orchid, Shade, Animal Man, Robotman and John Constantine for a New Year's Party. Edited by Stuart Moore. |
V2K: Brave Old World |
Feb 00- May 00 | 1-4 | William Messner-Loebs and Guy Davis show what happens if, instead of jumping to a New Millenium, time slips backwards to 1900 again instead. Edited by Jennifer Lee. |
V2K:Pulp Fantastic |
Feb 00- Apr 00 | 1-3 | Howard Chaykin and David Tischman with art by Rick Burchett. Typical Chaykin nonsense about an artificial planet run by religious fanatics. Edited by Shelly Roeberg |
V2K:Four Horsemen |
Feb 00- May 00 | 1-4 | Robert Rodi and Essad Ribic. The Four Horsemen return only to find nobody in these jaded times gives a damn. Edited by Axel Alonso. |
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Feb 00 | 1 | Larry takes poison because his girl friend left him. Then she comes back. Now he needs an antidote. Fun and Games from Kyle Baker. Edited by Cliff Chiang. |
Deadenders |
Mar 00- Jun 01 | 1-16 | Edited by Shelly Roeberg. Created by Ed Brubaker and Warren Pleece "Bladerunner meets Quadrophenia". |
Sandman Presents: Petrefax |
Mar 00- Jun 00 | 1-4 | Ed by Joan Hilty. Created by Mike Carey and Steve Leialoha |
Weird War Tales Special |
Apr 00 | 1 | Edited by Axel Alonso. Anthology |
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May 00- Dec 01 | 1-20 | Swamp Thing returns, only this time it's his daughter Tefe. Written by Brian K Vaughn with art by Roger Petersen. Edited by Joan Hilty |
Battleaxes |
May 00- Aug 00 | 1-4 | Terry LaBan and Alex Horley produce a saga of female vikings. Edited by Joan Hilty |
Lucifer |
Jun 00-
Aug 06 |
1-75 | He can't conquer the world, but at least God will let him have his own ongoing series. Edited by Shelly Roeberg Written by Mike Carey with art by Chris Weston. |
Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here |
Jun 00 | 1 | One-shot by Warren Ellis. A collection of Spider Jerusalem's newspaper columns, illustrated by the creame of Vertigo's art stable. 48 pages. Edited by Axel Alonso. |
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Aug 00- Nov 00 | 1-4 | Written by Richard Kadrey with art by the Pander Bros. Punk sf. Edited by Shelly Roeberg |
Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood |
Sep 00- Dec 00 | 1-4 | By Jamie Delano and Phillip Bond. John Constantine in the year 2025. Edited by Shelly Roeberg and Jim Higgins. |
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade |
Oct 00-
Dec 00 |
1-3 | By Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra. Edited by Axel Alonso, High farce in Hitler's Germany. |
Outlaw Nation |
Nov 00- May 02 | 1-19 | By Jamie Delano and Goran Sudzuka. Story Johnson finally returns home from Vietnam 25 years after the end of the war. Edited by Karen Berger. |
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Dec 00 | 1 | One-shot. By Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham. Is Merv really a special agent for the Sandman, or is it all just a dream? 48 pages, prestige format. Edited by Shelly Bond. |
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The House on the Borderland |
Jan 01 | 1 | Hardcover. A 1908 horror classis by William Hope Hodgson. Illustrated by Richard Corben from a script by Simon Revelstroke. Edited by Axel Alonso. |
The Names of Magic |
Feb 01- Jun 01 | 1-5 | Timothy Hunter returns in a mini series by Dylan Horrocks and Richard Case. Edited by Heidi McDonald. |
 User |
Mar | 1-3 | Meg Chancellor is looking for the Escape Key to life. 3 issues, prestige format, edited by Joan Hilty. Written by Devin Grayson with art by John Bolton. |
El Diablo |
Mar | 1-4 | by Brian Azarello. Edited by Axel Alonso. A new version of the Weird Western Tales character. |
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Apr | 0-20 | by Steven Seagle and Kelley Jones. Edited by Shelly Bond. Set in San Francisco. 21 issues (starting with 0) |
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Apr | 1-4 | edited by Axel Alonso and Will Dennis. Anthology series. |
American Century |
May | 1-27 | by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman- 27 issues. In 1950, former fighter jock Harry Kraft deserts the airforce and takes up the life of a drifter/adventurer. Edited by Shelly Bond. |
House of Secrets: Facade |
May 00- Jun 00 | 1-2 | edited by Shelly Bond, written by Steven Seagle. A new story featuring Rain Harper, one of the characters from the previous series. |
 Codename: Knockout
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Jun | 0-24 | written by Robert Rodi. Edited by Tony Bedard- a silly, sexy spy thriller.24 issues. |
The Sandman Presents: Everything You Wanted to Know About Dreams But Were Afraid to Ask |
Jul | 1 | 48 page one shot by Bill Willingham and a host of artists. Edited by Shelly Bond. . |
The Little Endless Storybook |
Aug | 1 | A children's book by Jill Thompson featuring Neil Gaiman's Sandman characters. Edited by Shelly Bond. "Suggested for mature readers of all ages." |
Hunter: the Age of Magic |
Sep | 1-25 | Continues the adventures of Tim Hunter, now age 17. Edited by Heidi McDonald. Written by Dylan Horrocks and drawn by Richard Case. |
 Angel and the Ape
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Oct | 1-4 | Howard Chaykin destroys more comic book icons from earlier times. edited by Heidi McDonald. |
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock |
Oct | 1-3 | by Garth Ennis. Edited by Tony Bedard. |
War Story |
Nov | 1-4 | edited by Tony Bedard. by Garth Ennis. Set in the darkest days of World War II. |
I, Paparazzi |
Nov | 1 | hardcover by Pat MGreal and photographer Stephen John Phillips. Edited by Karen Berger. Horror, crime and suspense, done entirely with digitally enhanced photographs. |
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Grip-The Strange World of Men |
Jan 03 | 1-5 | edited by Shelly Bond. by Gilbert Hernandez. A sci-fi, horror, romance thriller. |
Sci-Spy |
Apr | 1-6 | by Doug Moench and Paul Gulacy.edited by Will Dennis. Secret agenets in an interplanetary cold war |
 King David
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May | 1 | 160 page soft cover by Kyle Baker. Edited by Karen Berger. Biblically accurate, but given the Kyle Baker treatment. |
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Jun | 1-8 | About a very strange town in Massachusetts. written by John Rozum. art by Jesus Sais. Edited by Heidi McDonald. |
Fables |
Jul | 1- | Bill Willingham’s Fables, an adult updating of all the old fairy tales breathes new life into the Vertigo line. Edited by Shelly Bond. |
The Filth |
Aug | 1-13 | by Grant Morrison . edited by Karen Berger. Art by Chris Weston. Sci-fi-spy stuff of some sort. |
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Aug | 1-5 | By Paul Pope. Edited by Shelly Bond. Six star crossed characters meet in Manhattan 2038. |
Y-The Last Man |
Sep 02-
Mar 08 |
1-60 | Edited by Heidi McDonald. Written by Brian K. Vaughn with art by Pa Guerra. Yorick Brown is the last man on Earth. What will the women do with him? One of Vertigo's major successes. |
Vertigo Pop:Tokyo |
Sep | 1-4 | edited by Shelly Bond- first in a series. By Jonathan Vankin and Seth Fisher. Manga, crime and rock n' roll. |
Lucifer- Nirvana |
Oct | 1 | 48 page Prestige format. one shot. |
 Bigg Time
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Oct | 1 | 128 black and white softcover by Ty Templeton. Long time loser Lester Bigg is suddenly given the power to communicate with his guardian angel. Edited by Heidi McDonald and Joan Hilty. |
Fight For Tomorrow |
Nov | 1-6 | by Bryan Wood and Dennys Cowan. Chop sockey action edited by Heidi McDonald and Zachary Rau. |
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe |
Nov | 1 | Hardcover by Jonathan Scott Fuqua and Steve Parke. Edited by Karen Berger |
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Vertigo Pop!- London |
Jan | 1-4 | written by Peter Milligan. Edited by Karen Berger. |
 The Sandman Presents: Bast
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Mar | 1-3 | Edited by Shelly Bond. 3 issues. Written by Caitlin Kiernan |
Vertigo X :10 Years on the Edge |
Apr | 1 | Vertigo celebrates its10th anniversary with a 99 cent preview. 48 page special, edited by Shelly Bond. |
Blood and Water |
May | 1-5 | by Judd Winick. Edited by Mariah Huehner. A vampire version of Friends. |
Zatanna:Everyday Magic |
May 03 | 1 | Prestige format one-shot written by Paul Dini. Edited by Shelly Bond. |
 Orbiter
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Jun 03 | 1 | Hardcover by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran. Edited by Heidi McDonald and Will Dennis. |
Beware the Creeper |
Jun 03 | 1-5 | by Will Dennis written by Jason Hall. Not the DC universe character. |
Barnum |
Jul 03 | 1 | hardcover by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman. Edited by Shelly Bond |
Vertigo Pop!: Bangkok |
Jul | edited by Shelly Bond. Written by Jonathan Vankin | |
Death: At Death's Door |
Jul | 1 | Black and white manga style digest paperback by Jill Thompson. 208 pages for $9.95. |
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Aug 03-
Mar 06 |
1-32 | edited by Will Dennis. Nothing to do with the DC war series. Written by Andy Diggle. Hard boiled crime drama. |
Fables: The Last Castle |
Nov 03 | 1 | Prequel one-shot to the Fables series. |
Sgt Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place |
Dec 03 | .by Brian Azzarello and Joe Kubert. Hardcover. | |
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Feb | 1 | Vertigo publishes a sideways comic called Vertical. 3 1/4" wide by 10 1/4" tall. by Steven Seagal and Mike Allred Edited by Shelly Bond. Set in 1965 with a guest appearance by Andy Warhol. |
My Faith in Frankie |
Mar | 1-4 | Edited by Shelly Bond. by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew. A manga inspired fantasy about a little girl with her own personal God. |
Midnight, Mass: Here There be Monsters |
Mar | 1-6 | A second Vertigo mini series by Jeff Rozum- 6 issues. Edited by Joan Hilty. |
Swamp Thing |
May 04-
Sep 06 |
1-29 | Swamp Thing returns in a new series by Andy Diggle. Edited by Will Dennis. |
 Bite Club
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Jun | 1-6 | Howard Chaykin and David Tischman's attempt to cross vampires with The Sopranos is a six issue mini series edited by Shelly Bond. |
Seaguy |
Jul | 1-3 | 3 issues about a whimsical super-hero in a world where nothing ever goes wrong. By Grant Morrison. |
The Witching |
Aug 04-
May 05 |
1-10 | By Jonathan Vankin and Leah Gallagher. Edited by Shelly Bond. The three witches from DC's old horror comics get their own series. |
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Oct 05 |
1-15 | Neil Gaiman and Si Spencer try to reinvigorate Timothy Hunter. Edited by Shelly Bond. |
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Oct | 1-3 | By Grant Morrision and Frank Quitely. Edited by Karen Berger featuring genetically engineered pets turned into human killing machines. That should have strong reader identification! |
The Originals |
Nov | 1 | By Dave Gibbons black and white hardcover about street gangs. Edited by Karen Berger. |
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Angel Town |
Jan | 1-5 | by Gary Phillips and Shawn Martinbrough Edited by Will Dennis. Gritty crime drama. |
Trigger |
Feb | 1-8 | By Jason Hall and John Watkis. Noir science fiction. Edited by Will Dennis |
Constantine: The Official Movie Adaption |
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Apr | 1-3 | By Grant Morrison and Philip Bond. Sort of a Bombay musical in comic form. With demons. Edited by Karen Berger |
Otherworld |
May | 1-12 | by Phil Jimenez 12 issue fantasy maxi-series. |
Mnemovore |
Jun | 1-6 | by Hans Rodionoff and Ray Fawkes with art by MIke Huddleston. A woman with amnesia must battle a demon to save her friends, who she doesn't remember. |
The Fountain |
Oct | 1 | Hardcover by Darren Aronofsky and Kent Williams. Edited by Karen Berger. One man in three different times tries to save the life of the woman he loves. |
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Aug | 1-9 | Neil Gaiman's classic novel of urban fantasy is adapted to comics by by Mike Carey and Glen Fabry. |
Dead Boy Detectives Digest |
Sep | 1 | by Jill Thompson. The Neil Gaiman creations return in a manga style and sized black and white comic. 144 pages for $9.99. |
Loveless |
Dec | 1-24+ | By Brian Azzarello and Marcello Frusinby Brian Azzarello and Marcelo Frusin. A dark new western, edited by Will Dennis. |
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DMZ |
Jan | 1-45+ | By Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchellia near future tale of civil war in America where the DMZ is New York City. By Brian Wood. Edited by Will Dennis. |
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Feb | 1-22 | By Douglas Ruskoff and Liam Sharp- Jake Stern roams through a world in which the more horrifying portions of the Old Testament are literally true and still going on. 22 issues |
The Exterminators |
Mar | 1-30 | By Simon Oliver and Tony Moore A series about real exterminators going up against supernatural cockroaches. |
American Virgin |
May | 1-23 | Steve Seagle and Becky Cloonan, ed by Shelly Bond. A young Christian minister's soul is challenged by the events of a terrorist act.. |
Can't Get No |
Jun | 1 | One shot by Rick Veitch about the fall of the Twin Towers. |
Jack of Fables |
Sep | 1-38+ | Spins off from the main series as Jack (everybody knows Jack) takes off into the mundy world. by Willingham, Matthew Sturges and Tony Atkins. Ed by Shelly Bond |
 Deadman |
Oct | 1-13 | By Bruce Jones and John Watkiss. Not the adventures of Boston Brand, but Brandon Cayce. Edited by Jonathan Vankin. |
Pride of Baghdad |
Oct | 1 | By Brian Vaughan and Niko Henrichon. Edited by Will Dennis. A pride of lions escape from the Baghdad Zoo during an American bombing raid. 136 page one shot. |
American Splendor |
Nov | 1-5 | By Harvey Pekar,Dean Haspiel, Ty Templeton and others. Edited by Jonathan Vakin. Pekar continues his acclaimed independent comic (which began in 1976) as a Vertigo mini-series. |
Fables;1001 Nights of Snowfall |
Nov | 1 | By Bill Willingham, Charles Vess and others. Edited by Shelly Bond. Snow White is captured by the Sultan and must entertain him with 1001 tales. Hardcover. |
The Other Side |
Dec | 1-5 | By Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart. The travails of two young men caught in the Vietnam War, one American and one North Vietnamese. |
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Crossing Midnight |
Jan | 1-19 | By Mike Carey and Jim Fern crosses horror with Japanese and Korean backgrounds and the tale of twin teen age girls born on the opposite sides of midnight. Edited by Karen Berger. |
 Sandman Mystery Theatre:
Sleep of Reason |
Feb | 1-5 | By John Rey Neiber and Eric Nguyen. A new heir to the Golden Age gas mask guy runs for 5 issues. Edited by Jonathan Vankin. |
Scalped |
Mar | 1-34+ | Script:Jason Aaron
Pencils:R.M. Guera Edited by Will Dennis Sopranos style drama set on a modern day Indian Reservation. |
Army@Love |
May | 1-12 | Written and drawn by Rick Veitch is either a new take on war comics or romance comics. The adventures of a National Guard unit suddenly deployed to a middle east hot spot. Edited by Karen Berger. |
God Save the Queen |
Jun | 1 | Hardcover by Mike Carey and John Bolton. Slacker Faeries. |
Silverfish |
Jul | 1 | By David Lapham. Hardcover. Crime thriller, featuring betrayal, family secrets and double lives. |
Faker |
Sep | 1-6 | By Mike Carey and Jock. A college age drama where you can lie cheat and fake your way through anything. |
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Un-Men |
Oct | 1-13 | By John Whalen and Mike Hawthorne. Edited by Jonathan Vankin. The mis-shapen creatures created by Swamp Thing villain Antone Arcane have founded their own town and attempt to live normal lives. |
Cairo |
Nov | 1 | Hardcover. By G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker. A stolen hookah, a spiritual underworld and a genie on the run in the modern middle East. |
Vinyl Underground |
Dec | 1-12 | Si Spencer and Simon Gane- Occult detectives solve crimes in modern London. Edited by Shelley Bond. |
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Feb | 1-20+ | An epic tale of the turn of the Millenium-in the year 1000. by Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice.Edited by Will Dennis. |
Incognegro |
Feb | 1 | Hardcover by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece. In the early 20th century a young black man must pass for white in order to save his brother from a lynching. |
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May | 1-18 | A habitual liar and a rich girl with a bullet lodged in her brain seek high adventure. By David Lapham. |
American Splendor: Season Two |
Jun | 1-4 | A second series of four issues covering the relentlessly ordinary life of Harvey Pekar. |
House of Mystery |
Jul | 1-18+ |
By Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham with art by Luca Rossi. After Cain is evicted a bunch of people find themselves trapped in the House of Mystery with no way to escape, so they tell each other stories. |
Madame Xanadu |
Aug | 1-15+ | By Matt Wagner and Amy Reader Hadley. The tarot reading mystery woman from DC's 70's horror anthologies finally has her life story revealed. |
Hellblazer presents: Chas- The Knowledge |
Sep | 1-5 | By Simon Oliver and Goran Sudzuku. A London cabdriver must take on an ominous entity from London's grim history. |
 Army@Love:
The Art of War |
Oct | 1-6 | By Rick Veitch. Season Two. |
Air |
Oct | 1-13+ | By journalist G. Willow Wilson and M. K. Perker. A story about a stewardess who's afraid to fly, lost in a country which doesn't exist. |
The Alcoholic |
1 | Nov | By Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel. " In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere." Hardcover. |
Greatest Hits |
Nov | 1-6 | Script:David Tischman
Pencils:Glenn Fabry Edited by Shelley Bond The Beatles as super-heroes. |
Unknown Soldier |
Dec | 1-12 | Script:Joshua Dysart
Pencils:Alberto Ponticelli Edited by Pornsak Pichetshote Cover by Richard Corben 2002 Uganda. |
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Jan | 1-4 | P. Craig Russel adapts Neil Gaiman's prose Sandman novel. Edited by Karen Berger. |
The Haunted Tank |
Feb | 1-5 | By Frank Marrafino and Henry Flint. Edited by Brandon Montclare. Cover by Joe Kubert. |
Bang! Tango |
Apr | 1-6+ | By Joe Kelly And Adrian Sibar. Cover By Chaykin.
Edited by Bob Schreck. |
Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye |
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Jun | 1-3 | By Willingham, Sturges and Buckingham. Part of the Great Fables Crossover.Fables adopts a major publisher mainstay, the crossover, as Fables, Jack of Fables and a mini-series, the Literals embark on a 9 issue continued story line. |
The Unwritten |
Jul | 1-5+ | By Mike Carey and Peter Gross begins. The first issue is offered for $1.00 to entice readers to diver into a fantasy about a fantasy character come to life, or is it a real person trapped into a work of fiction? |
Greek Street |
Sep | 1-3+ | Peter Milligan's Greek Street resets the ancient Greek myths into the streets of modern London. Art by Davide Gianefelice. |
Sweet Tooth |
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