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Issue: Promethea #2
Publication Date: February 2001
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: America's Best Comics, LLC
On Sale Date: 12/11/2002
Volume: 2
Pages: 164
ISBN: 1563899574
UPC/EAN: 76194123098600111
Price: $20.99 CAD
$17.99 USD
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Content Items: 26 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Originally published in single magazine form by Wildstorm Productions as Promethea 7-12.

Fifth printing available November 21, 2012; sixth printing available January 29, 2014; seventh printing available May 6, 2015; and eighth printing available November 8, 2017 (per comiclist.com).
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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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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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Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Promethea [Margaret Case]; Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Promethea [Grace Brannagh]; Promethea [Anna]
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Promethea Collected Edition Book 2

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Chapter One

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Promethea [Sophie Bangs]
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Was I a Living Legend...Or a "Love Cheat?"

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Promethea [Bill Woolcott]; Dirk Dangerfeld
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Rocks and Hard Places

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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
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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Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Sophie Bangs
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Guys and Dolls

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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
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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Chapter Three

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Bringing Down the Temple

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Bringing Down the Temple!

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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
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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Chapter Four

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Sex, Stars & Serpents

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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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Sex, Stars & Serpents

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Sophie Bangs; Jack Faust; Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Weeping Gorilla (cameo); Stacia van der Veer; Innana; Ereshkigal; Mayor Sonny Baskerville (cameo)
Sophie agrees to have sex with Jack Faust as Promethea. In exchange, he introduces her to magic.
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Chapter Five

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Under Attack!

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Pseunami

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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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Chapter Six

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The Magic Theatre: A Pop Art Happening

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Metaphore

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Promethea [Sophie Bangs]; Aleister Crowley
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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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 and creator photographs and biographies. The Moore photograph is by Gebbie; the Williams and Gray photographs are uncredited.
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Alan Moore (photograph)
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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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