Took my Hellblazer #1 out of its bag to check out what ads were included (a la Sandman #1 I did a couple years back)… but there are no ads! Perhaps “suggested for mature readers” did not appeal to comics advertisers in 1988.

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Took my Hellblazer #1 out of its bag to check out what ads were included (a la Sandman #1 I did a couple years back)… but there are no ads! Perhaps “suggested for mature readers” did not appeal to comics advertisers in 1988.
Swamp Thing #45 (1986). Twenty-four issues into Alan Moore’s run.
The Sandman #6 (1989).
The Complete Vertigo Timeline
The Complete Vertigo Timeline
What really drove the starting of Vertigology was our long-standing love of and commitment to the Vertigo imprint. Coming out of a flood of literary and adult themed titles coming to DC comics int he 1980s, editor Karen Berger eventually made the Vertigo imprint to give a life to this new area of comics. This really created the kind of comics we have today, often genre focused, with vision and…
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