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Issue: Locke & Key #1
Publication Date: September 2010
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Issues: #1 of 6 Issues (18 Printings)
Title: Welcome to Lovecraft
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Suggested for Mature Readers
Publisher: FlagIDW
Brand: IDWView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: IDW Publishing
On Sale Date: 08/05/2009
Volume: 1
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781600103841
UPC/EAN: 978160010384151999
Price: $19.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Suggested for Mature Readers
Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Justin Eisinger (collection); Chris Ryall (series)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy
Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke
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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Feature(s): Locke & Key
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Welcome to Hill's House

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Writer(s): Robert Crais
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Feature(s): Locke & Key
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Bode Locke

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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Rendell Locke; Mrs. Locke; Duncan Locke; Sam Lesser; Al Grub
Synopsis: Al and Sam murder Rendell Locke. Tyler stuns Sam, and Sam ends up in Juvenile Detention. After the funeral, the Locke family moves to Lovecraft, Massachusetts -- into the family mansion, Keyhouse. While exploring the house, Bode finds a key. He uses the key to unlock a door. When he passes the threshold, his spirit leaves his body.
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From Content Item: FlagLocke & Key #1 [Standard Cover] published February 2008
was Welcome To LoveCraft - Chapter One [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Two

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Mrs. Locke; Sam Lesser
Synopsis: Bode discovers a door that separates his spirit from his body. He can travel around the house in spirit form and see his family. Bode also discovers a female entity in the old well house. The entity explains that Keyhouse contains many doors with magical properties like the spirit door, such as a gender changing door. She also describes the Anywhere Key that gives the bearer the ability to open any door and transport to any location. The entity asks Bode for a mirror and scissors, which he provides.
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From Content Item: FlagLocke & Key #2 published March 2008
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Three

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Mrs. Locke; Duncan Locke; Sam Lesser
Synopsis: Kinsey struggles with keeping things in perspective at school -- she keeps having flashbacks to the day that Sam and Al killed her father. Sam uses the scissors and mirror transported by the entity to escape from prison. The police post a protective guard outside Keyhouse. Kinsey decides that she can't keep all her troubles bottled up and becomes friends with Jackie, a girl she met at high school track practice.
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From Content Item: FlagLocke & Key #3 published April 2008
was Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Three [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Sam Lesser; Duncan Locke; Rendell Locke
Synopsis: Sam makes his way across the country. He tells his story to a truck driver. Sam's father beat him regularly, his mother ignored his accomplishments, and the school jocks tormented him. Sam also recalls that Duncan Locke tried very hard to help Sam with college applications, and he remembers Tyler being so mad at his father that Tyler says offhandedly that if Sam ever kills his own dad that he should kill Tyler's dad too. In Lovecraft, Tyler struggles with having to maintain a macho outer image for Bode and his true feelings of overwhelming grief. Bode tries to answers a knock-knock joke.
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Five

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Sam Lesser; Duncan Locke; Nina Locke
Synopsis: Sam arrives in Lovecraft. He locks Nina and Duncan in the wine cellar and threatens to kill Tyler and the other children if Nina doesn't give him the Anywhere key. The entity in the well tells Bode that Sam has taken his family hostage, and it promises to save the family if Bode brings her the key.
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Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Six

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Joe Hill
Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Robbie Robbins
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
Character(s): Bode Locke; Kinsey Locke; Tyler Locke; Sam Lesser; Duncan Locke; Nina Locke; Zack
Synopsis: Bode discovers the Anywhere key in Kinsey's bracelet. He delivers the key to the entity, and the entity uses the key to leave the well house. After a scuffle in the basement, Kinsey shoots Sam. The entity returns to Lovecraft as a teenage boy named Zack.
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From Content Item: FlagLocke & Key #6 published July 2008
was Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter Six [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Art Gallery

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Feature(s): Locke & Key
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Biographies

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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Colorist(s): Jay Fotos
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Character(s): Bode Locke
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back cover

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Penciller(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
Inker(s): Gabriel Rodriguez
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