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Issue: Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2
Publication Date: January 1999
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: suggested for mature readers
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Vertigo; DC ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 12/02/1998
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76194121118300211
Price: $10.95 CAD
$6.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 14 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Winter's Edge 2

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Rain; Merv Pumpkinhead; John Constantine; Nevada; Tim Hunter; Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Death; Spider Jerusalem; Nuala; Matthew the Raven; King Mob; Faeries; Jack Herriman; Bolero; Minx; Rip Lefkowitz; Tom Jones; S (from Heavy Liquid)
First Line: Writes love letters...
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In Content Item: FlagVertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics #[nn] published January 2000
as Coda [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]cover
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Wraparound cover.

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
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Title and Credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Anna
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contents page; modified versions of panels from pages 3 and 73 form the background.
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Editorial Credits & Indicia

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Spider Jerusalem
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Indicia page; modified version of panel from page 15 forms the background.
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Stories

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): Leo; Leo's dad; Tom Jones; Leo's Grandma; Shannon; The Minx [Anna Schwarz]; Kirsten; Sam; Joe Schwarz; Miriam Schwarz
First Line: Don't you get it? I need the fucking money, you asshole.
Synopsis: Leo looks for his yarmulke.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Sequel to Winter's Edge (DC, 1998 series) #1 story.
Framing sequence for the book in 11 segments: pages 3-4, 13, 24, 34, 44, 56, 64, 73, 82, 93 and 96.
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A Winter's Tale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Death
First Line: It used to bother me.
Synopsis: Death talks about her work.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Absolute Death #[nn] [unnamed variant] published December 2009
as A Winter's Tale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Features Death of The Endless.
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Edgy Winter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Spider Jerusalem; Cat [Transmetropolitan]; Royce's assistant (voice only); SPKF reporter; TV News host
First Line: In South Foulness, on the Nazareth Road, they give thanks for the day when the Beatified Mostyn Gorbals pissed down the Foulness vat-grown Messiah's throat to save his life when his heart caught fire.
Synopsis: Spider Jerusalem rants about the Winter Festival season.
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In Issue: FlagTransmetropolitan #3 [First Printing] published November 1999
In Issue: FlagTransmetropolitan #0 [First Printing] published October 2004
In Issue: FlagTransmetropolitan #4 published December 2009
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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In the City of Dreams

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Dian Belmont; Thaddeus Brecht; Mr. Murray (Brecht's assistant)
First Line: I run, as if in a dream, in a city I do not know--
Synopsis: Golden Age Sandman hunts mad architect.
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Pages: 8
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We Three Things

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Tim Hunter; Sundrop; Wishbone; Sage
First Line: Once upon a time, magic came to me as easy as breathing. I didn't even have to think about it.
Synopsis: Tim Hunter helps some lost Faeries.
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Pages: 8
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God and Sinners

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jack Herriman; Knut; Molly; Cousin Beth; Pigfuker (photo; dead); Dirk Emerson; Iris
First Line: Of course, there are miracles in this world, but you usually don't notice them.
Synopsis: Jack Herriman spends his Christmas holidays on a stakeout.
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In Content Item: FlagMP Graphic #7 published July 2001
as Dio e i peccatori [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Preview for a 1999 mini-series.
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Style Terror Dress to Kill

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Character(s): King Mob; Lord Fanny
First Line: Dress the Dandy, dad!
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Paper dolls
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New Year's Demolition

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Nevada; Bolero; Leonard the Duck; Rift demon; Rip Lefkowitz; Phelch; Rhonda Martini
First Line: The Las Vegas strip. December 31, 1998.
Synopsis: Nevada performs at a New Year's party.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Preview for Nevada II series, which eventually went unpublished.
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Marble Halls

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Character(s): Sandman [Daniel Hall]; Nuala; Mervyn Pumpkinhead; Abel; Goldie (Gargoyle); Jumella; Eve; Lucien; Matthew the Raven; Gregory (Gargoyle); Cluracan; Cain; Faerie; The Unseelie
First Line: A toast, then, to our gracious host on this...
Synopsis: Nuala attends a Yule party in the Dreaming and abandons her glamour stone.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Title is probably based on the song "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls".
Sets up storyline for The Dreaming (DC, 1996 series) #44 (January 2000).
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All Those Little Girls and Boys

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, occult
Character(s): John Constantine; Susan; Gary Lester [also as Gaz] (flashback); Emma (flashback); Header (flashback); Rick the Vic (flashback); Nigel Archer (flashback); Kit Ryan
First Line: Can't bring them in 'ere, mate.
Synopsis: John Constantine reminisces about his dead friends.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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New Century Tension

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, science fiction
Character(s): S
First Line: First rush: It's coffee with a shot of diesel - super-exciting fast-paced once it gets going --
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Interview with Paul Pope on his Vertigo mini-series Heavy Liquid (DC, 1999 series).

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