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Issue: Lucifer #3
Publication Date: October 2002
 
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Title: A Dalliance with the Damned
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: VertigoView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 08/14/2002
Volume: 3
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1563898926
UPC/EAN: 76194123397000111
Price: $16.99 CAD
$14.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 15 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Squarebound Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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14 Content Items from other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
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Lucifer
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FlagLucifer #16 published September 2001
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Inside front cover.
Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned

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Half-title page, illustrated with a detail from the cover from Lucifer (DC, 2000 series) #16, recolored.
Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned

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Title page, illustrated with a detail from the cover of Lucifer (DC, 2000 series) #19.
Triptych 1: The Seeds of Time

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Mazikeen; Briadach; Mahu; Loth; Misran; Elaine Belloc
Mazikeen goes to Briadach the Seer to find a way to repair her face. She is captured by Mahu and put on trial for treason and collaboration. Mazikeen defeats Mahu in a trial by combat. At the end of the combat the Lilim learn about Lucifer’s new creation. Instead of agreeing to fix Mazikeen’s face, Briadach offers Mazikeen the position of war leader of the Lilim. She accepts.
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Triptych 2: The Two-Edged Sword

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Elaine Belloc; Matthew Belloc; Barbara Belloc; Brute; Glob; Effrul; Lady Lys; Glieve; Duma; Remiel; Briadach
Elaine separates her spirit from her physical body in an attempt to find her friend Mona’s spirit. Elaine ends up in the Dreaming, captured by Brute and Glob. She escapes and finds herself at Effrul, an entrance to Hell. When she enters Hell she is captured by Lady Lys, but is rescued by Duma and returned to her physical body.
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Triptych 3 of 3: The Ancestral Deed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Lucifer; Amenadiel; Mazikeen
In a parallel to the biblical creation, Lucifer creates a world to be inhabited by a man and a woman. He tells them he will withhold death as long as they worship no one. The man is tempted by a snake to ask Lucifer for knowledge about good and evil. After being given an understanding of good and evil from Lucifer, the man fails to follow Lucifer’s commandment and Lucifer returns him and the woman to dust. The snake reveals itself to be Amenadiel in disguise.
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A Dalliance with the Damned [Part 1 of 3]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Seviram; Brosag; Bazu; Morgastes; Lord Arux; Prackspoor; Lady Lys; Glieve; The Overseer; Christopher Rudd; Kusornes
Seviram’s petition to Lord Arux to align Effrul with Lucifer is rejected. Lady Lys takes one of the damned, named Christopher Rudd, to be her lover. Lord Arux sends a messenger off with a message for Lucifer that everything will be in order when Lucifer arrives in Effrul for his duel with Amenadiel. The messenger is killed by a group of conspirators headed by Seviram, and a new message is sent to Lucifer.
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A Dalliance with the Damned, Part 2 of 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Seviram; Brosag; Morgastes; Lord Arux; Prackspoor; Lady Lys; Glieve; Christopher Rudd; Lucifer; Mazikeen
Seviram and his conspirators plot to strike against Lord Arux at a dance on the Eve of Candles. Seviram tries to convince Lady Lys’ manservant, Glieve, to betray her. He refuses to do so and is killed by Seviram. Next, Seviram goads Brosag into challenging Rudd to a duel. He does, but is forced to fight Rudd in human form and is killed. At the conclusion of the duel, Lucifer and Mazikeen arrive in Effrul.
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A Dalliance with the Damned, Part 3 of 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Seviram; Lord Arux; Prackspoor; Lady Lys; Christopher Rudd; Lucifer; Mazikeen; The Overseer; The Marquis of Trollfor; Quell
Lord Arux realizes that someone intercepted his letter for Lucifer in order to have Lucifer present in Effrul on the Eve of Candles. Rudd tricks Lady Lys into ingesting the pure suffering of the damned, filling her with regret and guilt. Seviram and his conspirators attempt to bring down Lord Arux and replace him with Lucifer, but they fail because Rudd had informed Lord Arux of Grieve’s dying words. Lucifer gives Seviram a soul before killing him, so he can spend eternity as one of the damned.
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The Thunder Sermon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
horror
Lucifer; Mazikeen; Michael; Cluracan; Pharamond; Misran; Sherri; Ewan; The Basanos
Lucifer receives a warning from Pharamond about a threat on his life. Lucifer rejects the Lilim’s offer to be his army, causing Mazikeen to leave him. Michael entreats Lucifer to abandon his newly formed creation. Lucifer refuses to do so, and creates doorways from every other realm to his own for those who wish to enter it. During all of this, two teenagers who were drawn to the gateway have been lured into a side building where they become trapped like roaches in a Roach Motel.
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Cover Gallery

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Inside back cover.
The Decadence Is More Than Divine-- It's Positively Demonic

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horror
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Back cover, illustrated with a detail from the cover of Lucifer (DC, 2000 series) #17.

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