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Issue: Promethea #2
Publication Date: September 2001
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Issues: #2 of 5 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: America's Best ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: America's Best Comics, LLC
On Sale Date: 07/11/2001
Volume: none
Pages: 168
ISBN: 1563897849
UPC/EAN: 76194123096200111
Price: $40.95 CAD
$24.95 USD
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Content Items: 26 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
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Binding: hardcover with dust jacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Book Two of the Groundbreaking New Series

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Margaret Chase]; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]
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In Content Item: FlagPromethea Covers Special #[nn] published October 2005
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Disclose Notes: Cover design by Todd Klein. Cover art credits from José Villarrubia via the GCD Error Tracker.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Sophie Bangs lives in a present-day New York City similar to our own, ....
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Promethea Book 2

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]
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Disclose Notes: Title page with spot illo of five Prometheas.
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Promethea Collected Edition Book 2

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Chapter One

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Was I a Living Legend...Or a "Love Cheat?"

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Dirk Dangerfeld
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #7 published April 2000
was Was I a Living Legend... or a "Love Cheat?" [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Rocks and Hard Places

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Kenneth, Stan, Marv); Patricia "Trish" Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Sophie Bangs; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Mayor Sonny Baskerville; Benny Solomon; the Goetia (Buer, Stolas, Ronove, Bael, Asmoday, Marchosias, Andras); the Painted Doll; the Universe; Bill Woolcott (flashback); Dirk Dangerfeld (cameo); young Dennis Drucker (flashback); Dennis Drucker; Prometheus
Synopsis: Sophie continues her education and her journey through the Immateria. She meets Bill, and learns of his life and of the meaning of Pentacles. In the material world, Sophie's mom, the mayor of New York, the Painted Doll, and Benny Solomon and the Goetia all converge on the hospital where Sophie lies unconscious, as does Marv of the Five Swell Guys. Bill returns Sophie to her body and consciousness just as the Painted Doll and the Goetia begin separate assaults on the hospital.
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Chapter Two

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Sophie Bangs
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #8 published July 2000
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Disclose Notes: cover homage to Terry Gilliam
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Guys and Dolls

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Goetia (Buer, Stolas, Ronove, Bael, Asmoday, Marchosias, Andras); Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Kenneth, Stan, Marv); Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Barbara Shelley]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Little Margie; Promethea [Margaret Case]; the Painted Doll; Benny Solomon (dies); Sophie Bangs; Trish Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Mayor Sonny Baskerville; Barbara Shelley
Synopsis: As the Goetia and the Painted Doll continue their assualt on the hospital, Sophie manifests Grace, Bill, and Margaret into the bodies of Stacia, her Trish, and a nurse; while Barbara returns to her own body. Together, the five Promethea's repel the assault. In the battle's aftermath, however, Barbara collapses.
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #8 published July 2000
was Guys and Dolls [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
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Chapter Three

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Bringing Down the Temple

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #9 published September 2000
was Bringing Down the Temple! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Bringing Down the Temple!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Barbara Shelley (corpse); the Painted Doll (cameo); Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo); Weeping Gorilla (cameo); Kenneth of the Five Swell Guys; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Little Margie; Jack Faust; the Temple (Henry Royce, Teddy, Pru); the Pied Piper
Synopsis: Barbara Shelley dies; and Sophie is determined to get revenge. As Promethea, she finally tracks down the Temple, only to discover that they're three feeble senior citizens who think they're guarding the world from her.
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #9 published September 2000
was Bringing Down the Temple! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Chapter Four

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Sex, Stars & Serpents

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jack Faust; Little Margie; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]; Mata Hari; Billie Holiday;
William Blake; Andrew Eldritch; Bettie Page; Aleister Crowley; David Bowie; Oscar Wilde; Winsor McCay; Janis Joplin; Clara Bow; Timothy Leary; H.P. Lovecraft; Orson Welles; Rita Hayworth; Albert Einstein; Lucille Ball (with cake batter all over her face); young Austin Osman Spare; Charles Fort; Dorothy and Toto from the Wizard of Oz; the little man in the red suit from Twin Peaks
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #10 published October 2000
was As She Explores Sex, Stars & Serpents [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Disclose Notes: cover homage to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; background figures are more visible in original artwork at inker Mick Gray's site: http://www.mickgray.net/pm10.html
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Sex, Stars & Serpents

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sophie Bangs; Jack Faust; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Weeping Gorilla (cameo); Stacia van der Veer; Innana; Ereshkigal; Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo)
Synopsis: Sophie agrees to have sex with Jack Faust as Promethea. In exchange, he introduces her to magic.
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #10 published October 2000
was Sex, Stars & Serpents [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Chapter Five

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Under Attack!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #11 published December 2000
was Promethea Under Attack! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Disclose Notes: cover homage to '50s B-movie movie posters
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Pseunami

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Five Swell Guys (Bob, Roger, Stan, Marv, Kenneth); Sophie Bangs; Stacia van der Veer; Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo); Weeping Gorilla (cameo)
Synopsis: New Year's Eve, 1999. As the New Year breaks, a Y2K bug causes a malfunction in the popular Elasta-Gel technology, and Sophie must fight an Elasta-Gel creature with the help of the Five Swell Guys.
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #11 published December 2000
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: entire story printed landscape
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Chapter Six

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Disclose Notes: title page with spot illo
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The Magic Theatre: A Pop Art Happening

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #12 published February 2001
was The Magic Theatre A Pop Art Happening [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Disclose Notes: cover homage to rock art poster artist Bonnie MacLean
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Metaphore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Aleister Crowley
Synopsis: Promethea continues her magical education. She learns the syymbolic meanings of the Tarot's major arcana, which tell a metaphorical story about the history of the universe and mankind.
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From Content Item: FlagPromethea #12 published February 2001
was The Magic Theatre: A Pop Art Happening [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
Disclose Notes: Like the last two issues, and the next 13, this issue is an experiment in form. The story is told in the form of 24 splash pages. Each of the pages contains nine scrabble tiles, with the letters P-R-O-M-E-T-H-E-A rearranged on each page to form a different word or phrase illustrating a point. Pages 2-23 each feature a card of the major arcana (cards 0-21), each of which plays a symbolic part in the story being told, with Sophie the witness and the snakes on her caduceus the tour guides. Along the bottom of each page a separate, but intertwined story takes place, in the form of an extended joke told by Aleister Crowley, who grows from a fetus through childhood, adulthood, old age, and a corpse over the course of 24 pages. The Crowley illustrations feature painted colors by Villarrubia, while the rest of the page features traditional colors by Cox.
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Dedications

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Disclose Notes: Dedications and creator photographs and biographies. The Moore photograph is by Gebbie; the Williams and Gray photographs are uncredited.
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America's Best Comics Collected Editions

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Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Disclose Notes: ad for other ABC collections, with spot illo (a reprise of the spot illo for the Chapter One title page, with color)
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Genres: biography
Character(s): Alan Moore (photograph)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sophie Bangs; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; the Painted Doll; Buer; Jack Faust; Staca van der Veer; the Five Swell Guys (Stan, Kenneth, Bob, Roger, Marv); Weeping Gorilla (cameo)
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In Content Item: FlagPromethea Covers Special #[nn] published October 2005
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1

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