John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America (2024) #1

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John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America Vol 1 #1
March, 2024
Rated M for Mature (18+)
Publisher	DC Black Label
Executive Editor	Marie Javins
Cover Artists	Aaron Campbell
Variant Cover Artists
Cover Variant #1	Jock
Cover Variant #2	Sean Phillips
Cover Variant #3	Matias Bergara
Writers	Simon Spurrier
Pencilers	Aaron Campbell
Inkers	Aaron Campbell
Colorists	Jordie Bellaire
Letterers	Aditya Bidikar
Editors	Matthew Levine Chris Conroy
Next Issue	John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America # 2

When last we met I thought you had done to me a great SERVICE, but... you lied to me.

— Dream (Daniel Hall)

John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America #1 is an issue of the series John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 2024. It was published on January 16, 2024.

Appearing in the 1st Story

Featured Characters:

• John Constantine (Flashback and main story) (Also in a flashforward) (Also in a dream sequence) (Zombified in dream sequence)

Supporting Characters:

• The Endless
  • Dream (Daniel Hall) (Also in a dream sequence) (Impersonates Dream (Morpheus))
  • Dream (Morpheus) (Deceased) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an illusion)
• Nat
• Noah Ikumelo (Flashback and main story)
• Swamp Thing (Alec Holland) (Cameo)

Antagonists:

• Demons (The Final Magical Conflict) (Flashback only) (In Tommy Willowtree's body)
• The Kindly Ones (Unnamed) (Flashback only)
  • Cynthia (Unnamed)
• Unnamed Mississippi Highway patrolman (First appearance; unnamed) (Brainwashed)

Other Characters:

• Dreamthings (Cameo)
• Jack Oakhill (Hollywood porn movie director) (Single appearance) (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
• The Lords of the Inferno (Behind the scenes)
  • Negotiator Demon (First appearance; unnamed) (Flashback only)
    • Conquistador (Statue only) (Possessed)
• Mermaids (In picture only) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Rachel (John Constantine's ex-girlfriend) (First appearance) (Dies in flashback) (Cameo)
• Tommy Willowtree (Possessed) (Dies in flashback) (Cameo)
• Abby Arcane (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• The Daemon King (Roderick Burgess) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
  • Order of Ancient Mysteries (Mentioned only)
• The Cumeaen Sybil (Mentioned only)
• Ghosts (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)
• Interpol (Mentioned only)
• Jesus (Mentioned only)
• K-Mag (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Liza Ikumelo (Mentioned only)
• Metropolitan Police (Mentioned only)
• Solomon (Mentioned only)
• Tories (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• T.S. Eliot (Deceased) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Earth 0
  • Early 2000s (See Notes)
    • England
      • London
        • Islington
          • Hotel Oscar Wilde (First appearance; unnamed) (Flashback only)
    • United States of America
      • San Francisco (Mentioned only)
  • 2020 (See Notes)
    • United Kingdom
      • England
        • London
          • Southwark
            • Ri-Boys' Hideout (Flashback only) (Cameo)
          • Westminster
            • House of Commons (Mentioned only)
        • Liverpool (Mentioned only)
        • Southampton (Mentioned only)
      • Scotland
        • Glasgow (Mentioned only)
    • United States of America
      • Florida
        • St. Augustine
          • "Fountain of Youth" (First appearance) (Flashback only)
        • Jacksonville (Mentioned only)
        • Miami (Mentioned only)
      • Louisiana
        • Houma
          • Artful Greens Golf Club (First appearance) (Cameo)
      • Mississippi
      • U.S. Route 90 (Unnamed)
    • Spain (Mentioned only)
  • 2021 (See Notes)
    • United States of America
      • California
        • Los Angeles
          • Hollywood (Flashforward only) (Cameo)
• Sphere of the Gods
  • The Dreaming
  • Hell/Inferno (Cameo)
• Collective Unconscious (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Constantine's Lighter (Cameo)
• Dream's Sand Pouch (Flashback only)
• Eagles Stone (Cameo)
• Fountain of Youth (Mentioned only)
• Silk Cut (Flashback only)

Vehicles:

• Routemaster (Also in a dream sequence)

Concepts:

• American Dream (Unnamed) (Behind the scenes)
• The Green
• Magic
  • Exorcism
  • Hypnotism (Mentioned only)
  • Magical Gateway (Cameo)
  • Runes
    • Galdrabók/"Sleepthorn Spell"
• Metahumans
  

Notes

• This issue is set after the rebirth of Creation. In the unknotted timeline of Earth 0, the This Sceptred Isle storyline now takes place around late 2020, some time after the restoration of Prime Earth.
  • The first scene is a flashforward to the events of issue #11.
  • John's flashback in St. Augustine occurs seventeen days after the epilogue of John Constantine: Hellblazer #12, the events of which are referenced throughout the issue; the remainder of the story takes place a few weeks later.
• John and Morpheus' flashback retells events from Sandman (Volume 2) #3. This story reveals that, in the Post-Flashpoint continuity, those events have been altered: John actually lied to Morpheus, having previously stolen several grains of dream sand without informing him.
  • In the Pre-Flashpoint continuity, those events took place in 1989, following Morpheus' escape from Wych Cross. After the Flashpoint, the Silver Age events — including Crisis on Infinite Earths — were shifted to the early 21st Century, placing the following Modern Age events around the mid-2000s.
• This issue is collected in John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America.

Trivia

• Nat and Noah Ikumelo were first introduced in John Constantine: Hellblazer (Volume 1).
• Dream's line, "any of us are just palimpsests of antique tale", is an inside joke referencing how the entire Sandman/Vertigo continuity was merged into the Prime Earth continuity during the events of Flashpoint.
• The cats that appear behind Dream reference Morpheus, the former Dream King, who was also known as the "Cat of Dreams".
• Constantine quotes The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the John Constantine: Hellblazer - Dead in America series

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