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Issue: Absolute Promethea #1
Publication Date: November 2009
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: America's Best ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: WildStorm Productions
On Sale Date: 09/30/2009
Volume: 1
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781401223724
UPC/EAN: 978140122372459999
Price: $117.99 CAD
$99.99 USD
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Content Items: 48 (13 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.5" x 13"
Paper Stock: glossy paper
Binding: hardcover with slipcase
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Absolute Promethea, Book One

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Absolute Promethea

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The Promethea Puzzle: An Adventure in Folklore

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

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

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

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The Judgment of Solomon

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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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Promethea in Misty Magic Land

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Misty Magic Land

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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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A Faerie Romance

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A Faerie Romance

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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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Weapon for Liberty

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No Man's Land

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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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The Scheme of the Scarletine Sorcerer!

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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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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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Was I a Living Legend... or a "Love Cheat?"

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Rocks and Hard Places

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Character(s): The Five Swell Guys; Roger; Bob; Kenneth; Stan; Marv; Weeping Gorilla (billboard); Trish Bangs; Stacia; Sophie; Promethea [Bill]; Mayor Baskerville; Benny Solomon; Ernie; The Goetia; The Painted Doll
Synopsis: Sophie learns the way of the pentacle when Promethea [Bill] shows her the danger of becoming too close to the material world. Meanwhile, Mayor Baskerville and Benny Solomon arrive at the hospital and the Painted Doll drops a Teddy Bomb into the crowd.
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Disclose Notes: Cast and Credits: Audrey Causilla (model as Promethea and the Universe); Jeannie Lobato (model as Sophie Bangs); Douglas Bayne (model as Bill Woolcott); Tom Burke (model as Dirk Dangerfield/Dennis Drucker); Pawel Pagan-Piskorski (model as Prometheus); Alan Fluharty (model as Aquarius); Everett Boyd (model as Marv); Carlos Taylor (crowd); Lisa Taylor (crowd); Elena Taylor (crowd); Sarah Taylor (crowd); Nacho Muñoz-Sanjuán (crowd); Aleksey Zolotaryov (crowd, digital snake and Promethea moths); Gregory Malone (hair and make-up); Matthew and Ingrid Hair Replacement (wigs); Todd Douglass (Promethea's costume); David Page (straight jacket [sic] and padded cell); Fehl Cameron (background research).

Special thanks to Jae Lee, J.H. Williams, Arturo, Alvaro, Luz and Alejandro Villarrubia, Luz J. Momediano, David Drake, Steve Kent and Stephen John Phillips.
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Guys and Dolls

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Character(s): Benny Solomon (dies); Ernie (dies); The Goetia; Marchosias; Andras; Buer; Stolas; Earl Ronove; Agares; Bael; Asmoday; The Five Swell Guys; Roger; Bob; Kenneth; Stan; Marv; The Painted Doll; Promethea [Barbara]; Promethea [Grace]; Promethea [Margaret]; Promethea [Anna]; Promethea [Bill]; Promethea [Sophie]; Margie; Trish Bangs; Stacia; Sophie; Barbara Shelley (dies); Mayor Baskerville
Synopsis: Benny Solomon sends the Goetia to kill Sophie, but she summons Promethea [Grace], Promethea [Margaret] and Promethea [Bill] in addition to becoming Promethea herself. Between them and Promethea [Barbara] they drive off the Goetia, who retreat into Mayor Baskerville after the Painted Doll kills Benny Solomon.
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Bringing Down the Temple!

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Bringing Down the Temple!

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Character(s): Chucklin' Duck (billboard); Promethea [Sophie]; Sal; Vince; Shirley; Sophie; Stacia; Barbara Shelley (dead); Weeping Gorilla (billboard); Kenneth; Promethea [Grace]; Promethea [Margaret]; Promethea [Anna]; Promethea [Bill]; Margie; Jack Faust; The Temple; Henry Royce; Pru; Teddy; Simon; Jenny
Synopsis: Promethea tracks down the Temple only to find that it consists of merely three elderly people and the children that they hope to enlist. Sophie asks Jack the Faust to teach her magik and agrees to his condition of sex with Promethea.
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As She Explores Sex, Stars & Serpents

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Sex, Stars & Serpents

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Character(s): Weeping Gorilla (billboard); Sophie; Jack Faust; Promethea [Sophie]; Inanna; Ereshkigal; Stacia
Synopsis: Sophie visits Jack Faust, and he teaches tantric magic to Promethea.
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Promethea Under Attack!

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Pseunami

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Character(s): The Five Swell Guys; Roger; Bob; Kenneth; Stan; Marv; Sophie; Stacia; Weeping Gorilla (balloon); Elastagel; Promethea [Sophie]; Riley; Mack; Mike
Synopsis: All of the Elastagel goes haywire at the turn of the millennium and Promethea and the Five Swell Guys must protect the citizens of New York. Later, Promethea talks to the snakes on her caduceus and learns their names are Mike and Mack.
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The Magic Theatre a Pop Art Happening

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The Magic Theatre: a Pop Art Happening

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First Line: Let's see...you two snakes,E
Synopsis: Mike and Mack explain the history of the universe and humanity through the major arcana of the tarot.
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End of Book One

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