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Issue: Promethea #1
Publication Date: January 2001
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues (7 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Second Printing
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: America's Best Comics, LLC
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 180
ISBN: 1563896672
UPC/EAN: 76194122262200112
Price: $22.95 CAD
$14.95 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
29 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Collects Promethea (DC, 1999 series) #1-6.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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[untitled]

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
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[untitled]

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First Line: University student Sophie Bangs lives in a present-day New York City....
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Promethea Book 1

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Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Promethea Collected Edition Book 1

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The Promethea Puzzle: An Adventure in Folklore

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Charlton Sennet; Margaret Taylor Case; Grace Branagh; William Woolcott; Steve Shelley; Promethea
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Chapter One

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If She Did Not Exist, We Would Have to Invent Her

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea
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If She Did Not Exist... ...We Would Have to Invent Her.

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea
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The Radiant, Heavenly City

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Sophie Bangs; Stacia Van De Veer; Barbara Shelley; Weeping Gorilla (comic book); Hypatia (mentioned); Charlton Sennet; Anna (Sennet's housemaid); Margaret Taylor Case; Grace Branagh; William Woolcott; Steve Shelley; The Five Swell Guys; Kenneth (psychic); Marv (genius); Roger (muscle); Bob (leader); Stan (mechanic); Smee; Promethea [Barbara Shelley]; Thoth-Hermes; Promethea (original); Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
Synopsis: Sophie tries to interview Barbara Shelley about Promethea, but Barbara refuses. A Smee attacks Sophie and Promethea briefly rescues her. Promethea reverts to Barbara who tells Sophie to imagine herself Promethea or they will both die. Sophie writes a poem and becomes Promethea in time to stop the Smee. In addition, a small girl in Roman Alexandria becomes the first Promethea.
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Chapter Two

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The Temple Wants Her Dead; They've Put Out the Hit from Hell!

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea; Marchosias; Andras
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The Judgment of Solomon

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Barbara Shelley; Weeping Gorilla (t-shirt); The Five Swell Guys; Kenneth; Marv (injured); Roger; Bob; Stan; Stacia; Limp; Montelimar Sykes; Benny Solomon; Ernie; The Goetia; Marchosias; Andras; The Painted Doll (apparently killed); Mayor Sonny Baskerville; Wally (dies)
Synopsis: The temple, which had sent the Smee, hires Benny Solomon to kill Promethea and he summons Marchosias and Andras to perform the hit. Promethea defeats them at the Limp concert, but Stacia is sucked into the Immateria with them.
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Chapter Three

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Promethea in Misty Magic Land

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea; Little Red Riding Hood
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Misty Magic Land

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): The Five Swell Guys; Kenneth; Marv; Roger; Bob; Stan; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Barbara Shelley; Weeping Gorilla (billboard); Little Red Riding Hood; The Wolf; Stacia; Weeping Gorilla
Synopsis: Promethea visits Barbara in the hospital and then goes to the Misty Magic Land to rescue Stacia.
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Chapter Four

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A Faerie Romance

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Anna]
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A Faerie Romance

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Barbara Shelley; Promethea [Barbara]; Promethea [Grace]; Promethea [Margaret]; Promethea [Anna]; Promethea [Bill]; Margie; Sophie; Stacia; Trish Bangs; Charlton Sennet; Anna; Emily Sennet; Queen; Cowslip; Flax; Jenny-in-the-Wood; Jack Faust
Synopsis: Sophie and Stacia go to the library to research Promethea. After reading Charlton Sennet's account of Promethea (Anna), Sophie is visited by Jack Faust.
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Chapter Five

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Weapon for Liberty

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Margaret]
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No Man's Land

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Promethea [Margaret]; Sophie; Stacia; Weeping Gorilla (billboard); Mrs. Lucas; The Five Swell Guys; Kenneth; Marv; Stan; Barbara Shelley; Pandeliriums
Synopsis: Sophie reads about the legends of Promethea (Margaret) in World War I, visits Barbara in the hospital, and learns the way of the cup from Promethea (Margaret) in the Immateria.
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Chapter Six

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The Scheme of the Scarletine Sorcerer!

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Character(s): Promethea [Grace]
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The 5 Swell Guys in Firefight on 5th Avenue ("Marv's Last Memory" Mix); A Warrior Princess of Hy Brasil

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): The Five Swell Guys; Kenneth; Marv; Stan; Roger; Bob; The Painted Doll; Weeping Gorilla (watch); Sophie; Promethea [Grace]; Marto Neptura; Manigators; Stacia; Benny Solomon; Ernie; The Goetia
Synopsis: Sophie learns the way of the sword when she visits Hy Brasil and helps Promethea (Grace) oust Marto Neptura. Meanwhile, Benny Solomon arrives in New York with the Goetia
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Promethea Gallery

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

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Genres: fantasy, superhero
Character(s): Sophie Bangs; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Barbara Shelley]; Little Red Riding Hood; Stacia van de Veer; Marchosias
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