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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published January 1998
Cover Price 2.50
Pages 40
Editing Alisa Kwitney; Jennifer Lee (assistant editor)

Cover Details - "the dark rose part 1 of 2"

Characters Mathilda Thorne
Genre fantasy
Pencils Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Inks Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Colors Dave McKean (mixed media art)
Letters Dave McKean (logo design)

8 page advertisement

Notes ads: X-files CD-ROM (Fox Interactive); Clay Fighter 63 1/3 Nintendo64 game (Interplay); 2 page ads: Scud CD-ROM game (SegaSoft); Cool Boarders 2 PlayStation game (Sony); 2 X 0.5 page ad: Alien: Resurrection (20th Century Fox); backcover: Armitage III (Pioneer)

24 page The Dreaming story "Tears for a Dark Rose Book 1: The Unwalked Path"

Characters Corinthian; Lucien; Mathilda Thorne; Gregory; Roisin Dubh; Oscar Wilde; Sar Peladan; Christina Rossetti; Aubrey Beardsley; James McNeill Whistler
Synopsis Victorian author dreams of the Corinthian.
Genre fantasy
Script Al Davison
Pencils Al Davison
Inks Al Davison
Colors Daniel Vozzo
Letters Todd Klein
Reprinted in Dreaming, The (DC, 1996 series) #18 (November 1997) [p. 23 preview only]

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Notes 2 X 0.5 page colour house ad for DC graphic novels; January 1998 cover date Vertigo shipping list; colour house ad for Vertigo: Winter's Edge annual

4 page advertisement

Notes glossy paper advertising centrefold insert; ads: Around the Fur CD (Deftones); Alien: Resurrection (20th Century Fox); 2 page ad: Castlevania PlayStation game (Konami)

Half page On The Ledge promo (ad from the publisher) "On The Ledge"

Script Steve Darnall; Alex Ross
Letters typeset
Notes promo for Uncle Sam miniseries