He then meets John Constantine in Hellblazer # 19, written by Jamie Delano, leading into the latter's guest appearance in issue # 3.

* Hellblazer # 19 ( June 1989 )

His name appeared as Nergal in the Hellblazer comics and in the reprint of More Fun Comics # 67 in Weird Secret Origins, though in Countdown to Mystery and The Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives, he is referred to as " Negal ," even in the latter's reprint of More Fun # 67.

* In issues # 89-90 of DC Comics ' Hellblazer, John Constantine ventures into the Dreamtime.

Debuting alongside ongoing former-DC series Swamp Thing # 129, Hellblazer # 63, Sandman # 47, Doom Patrol # 64, Animal Man # 57, and Shade, the Changing Man # 33, the first new comic book printed under the " Vertigo " imprint was Death: The High Cost of Living # 1, debuting a scant couple of weeks before Enigma # 1 in January ( March ) 1993.

* Hellblazer Special: Lady Constantine # 3-4 ( Apr-May ) by Andy Diggle and Goran Sudzuka

Art Young joined Karen Berger to edit pre-Vertigo issues of Animal Man ( from issue # 3 ), Hellblazer and Swamp Thing on issues cover-dated November 1988.

Delano did write Vertigo's Animal Man # 51-79 ( 1992 – 1995 ), and produced 19 issues of Outlaw Nation ( 2000 – 02 ) and the 12-issue miniseries 2020 Visions ( 1997 – 1998 ), plus two Hellblazer miniseries — The Horrorist ( 1995 – 1996 ) and Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood ( 2000 ).

In addition, McKean's artwork also graced the inside pages of the public service comic Death Talks about Life ( 1994 ), an issue of The Dreaming (# 8 ), two issues of the DC-published Hellblazer (# 27 with Gaiman and # 40 with Delano ) and his and Neil Gaiman's OGN Mr Punch ( 1994 ).

During his run, there was also an stand-alone issue, the Hellblazer Annual # 1, exploring Constantine's ancestry, and featuring the video to John's punk band, Mucous Membrane's song " Venus of the Hardsell ".

Between the Garth Ennis and Paul Jenkins runs on Hellblazer, he finally told the story of why John's best friend Chas ' owes ' him, and he returned again for one of the five Christmas stories in issue # 250.

** Hellblazer # 250: " Happy New Fucking Year " ( with Sean Phillips, 2009 )

* Hellblazer # 259-260, 265-266, 282 ( full art ); # 271-274 ( along with Giuseppe Camuncoli ) ( 2009 – 11 )

** " Counting To Ten " ( with John Smith, Hellblazer # 51, 1992 )

In 2010, it was announced that Vertigo would become a strictly creator-owned imprint, with all titles that originated in the DC Universe, with the exception of flagship title Hellblazer, returning to the DC imprint.

Indeed, Moore never produced work for the Vertigo imprint-having refused to work for parent company DC in the late 1980s-although his DC-published Swamp Thing work and V for Vendetta reprint-maxiseries were subsequently collected as Vertigo-issued TPBs, while the Hellblazer solo title dealt with the character co-created by Moore, but never written by him.

Garth Ennis ( Hellblazer ) and Jamie Delano ( Animal Man ) were two other launch authors who went on to great success with Vertigo and elsewhere.

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo Hellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating ( with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield ) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity ( 1993-4 ).

He penciled four issues of the final Invisibles series between 1999 and 2000, produced covers for the Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood miniseries, and shared art chores with John Bolton on the 2001 miniseries User.

In 2000, Corben collaborated with Brian Azzarello on five issues of Azzarello's run on Hellblazer ( 146-150 ) which was collected in a trade called Hellblazer: Hard Time.

A more substantial return was made in 2010 for a hardcover graphic novel Hellblazer: Pandemonium with artist Jock to commemorate the 25th anniversary of John Constantine's first appearance in Swamp Thing.

This was followed in 1988 by a Black Orchid miniseries ( again with Gaiman ) and Hellblazer covers for DC Comics.

In December 1997, a two-issue crossover with Hellblazer was published, with a script from the then current Hellblazer writer Paul Jenkins from a story written in collaboration with John Ney Rieber.

Steve Dillon is a British comic book artist, from Luton, Bedfordshire, best known for his work with writer Garth Ennis on Hellblazer, Preacher, and The Punisher.

Together with author Garth Ennis, Dillon worked on Hellblazer and, later, on the very successful ( and critically acclaimed ) Preacher which wrapped up in 2000 after 66 issues.

He also wrote the original graphic novels The Sandman Presents: The Furies with John Bolton and Hellblazer: All His Engines with Leonardo Manco.

** Hellblazer: All His Engines ( with Leonardo Manco, graphic novel, hc, 128 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0316-7 )

Mike Carey returned to the title for a single issue between Denise Mina and Andy Diggle's runs on the title, and also wrote the well received Hellblazer graphic novel All His Engines about a strange illness sweeping the globe.

* Mike Carey in the 2006 four-issue story arc Reasons to Be Cheerful for the comic book Hellblazer.

In 2004 he drew an original graphic novel-Hellblazer: All His Engines, written by Mike Carey, was the regular artist on the Hellblazer series.

During this time, Carey also wrote the hardcover OGN Sandman Presents: The Furies ( 2002 ), over 40 issues of Hellblazer between 2002 and 2006 and a 2005 Hellblazer original graphic novel, All His Engines.

For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer, and issues 175 to 215 of Hellblazer, a run on that title only exceeded in length by Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan.

Since the creation of the Vertigo imprint ( itself largely inspired by the success of DC Comics ' increasingly mature titles such as Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Hellblazer, and The Sandman ), DC's horror / occult characters such as Morpheus have drifted progressively further away both from DC continuity and from each other.

Berger included in the initial Vertigo line-up the five titles she had had some hand in creating or editing ( Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Animal Man, Sandman and Shade ) as well as Doom Patrol which she " decided to include ... because Grant Morrison was working on it and the sensibility was very much like the other series.

Moore edited a wide range of Vertigo titles between 1993 and 2000, including the transitional issues of Hellblazer as well as Swamp Thing, the first fifteen issues of The Invisibles, the first seventeen issues of Preacher and the first thirty issues of Transmetropolitan.

Axel Alonso ( who would later move to Marvel Comics ) began his editorial career at Vertigo on Animal Man, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol and Hellblazer, and also edited the opening issues of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's 100 Bullets and the final issues of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher.

Grant Morrison, whose pre-Vertigo work on Animal Man and Doom Patrol was similarly retroactively branded as " Vertigo " when collected, also wrote two issues of Hellblazer pre-Vertigo, which are collected in a 2005 trade paperback.

Ennis ' best-known Vertigo work was his and artist Steve Dillon's creator-owned Preacher, which ran for 66 issues and six spin-off specials between 1995 and 2000, while Ennis ' prolific work on Hellblazer rivals initial-series author Delano.

Alan Moore, co-creator of the jaded, chain-smoking, modern-day British wizard John Constantine in Swamp Thing, hand-picked Jamie Delano to continue Constantine's adventures as star of the DC title Hellblazer ( 1988 – present ), but Delano left that series in 1991 before the launch of Vertigo.

Reiber wrote the first fifty issues of the first ongoing The Books of Magic series ( May 94-July 98 ), as well as a number of miniseries, mostly set in the wider Vertigo universe ( and particularly the Sandman / Books of Magic sections )-Mythos: The Final Tour ( 1996-7 ), Hellblazer / The Books of Magic ( 1997-8 ), The Trenchcoat Brigade ( 1999 ), The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story ( 1999 ).

Vertigo's main Universe titles-The Sandman, Hellblazer and Swamp Thing-have been particularly artistically diverse, and home to many talents, while the large number of creator-owned miniseries has seen large numbers of individuals producing work for Vertigo.

He provided the first 24-DC published-covers to Hellblazer, and all 22 covers to the 1993-5 Black Orchid Vertigo series ( which spun off from his-and Gaiman's-1988 DC miniseries ).

Fabry, in addition to his Preacher covers, provided covers for Ennis ' miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock ( 2001-2 ) and most of that authors first run on Hellblazer ( 1992-4 )-which included the first Vertigo issue-as well as his return to the title in 1998-9.

Andy Diggle, having previously written the Hellblazer special, Lady Constantine, and Vertigo titles The Losers and Swamp Thing, took over the title in 2007, another former editor of 2000 AD to have done this.

* Hellblazer (# 62-76 & 78-83 DC / Vertigo, 1992 – 94 )

It was announced in October 2008 that Milligan would be taking over writing duties on the long-running Vertigo comic series Hellblazer.

* Hellblazer ( Vertigo ):

* Hellblazer # 144-145 ( with Gary Erskine, Vertigo, 2000 )

* Hellblazer # 18-22 ( pencils, with writer Jamie Delano and inks by Alfredo Alcala, Vertigo, 1989 )

However, this series was used for the framing story in the first Vertigo Winter's Edge special, featuring Rain happening upon an art gallery in the house whose paintings allow her to see stories from The Sandman, The Dreaming, Hellblazer, The Invisibles, The Books of Magic, The Minx, Sandman Mystery Theatre and Nevada.

** Vertigo Secret Files & Origins: Hellblazer: " The First Time " ( with Dave Taylor, 2000 )