Vertigo: Winter's Edge Vol 1 1

"Winter's Edge": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"Winter's Edge"
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Vertigo: Winter's Edge Vol 1 #1
January, 1998
Publisher	Vertigo
Executive Editor	Karen Berger
Cover Artists	Brian Bolland
Winter's Edge
Writers	Steven T. Seagle
Pencilers	Teddy Kristiansen
Inkers	Teddy Kristiansen
Colorists	Teddy Kristiansen
The Flowers of Romance
Writers	Neil Gaiman
Pencilers	John Bolton
Inkers	John Bolton
Colorists	John Bolton
Mazel Tov, Leo
Writers	Peter Milligan
Pencilers	Sean Phillips
Inkers	Sean Phillips
Colorists	Kevin Somers
Spirit of the Season
Writers	Matt Wagner Steven T. Seagle
Pencilers	John K. Snyder III
Inkers	John K. Snyder III
Colorists	Bjarne Hansen
Deck the Halls
Writers	Caitlin R. Kiernan Peter Hogan
Pencilers	Duncan Fegredo
Inkers	Duncan Fegredo
Colorists	Daniel Vozzo
Tell Me
Writers	Paul Jenkins
Pencilers	Paul Pope
Inkers	Paul Pope
Colorists	Matt Hollingsworth Jamison
Piss on Earth
Writers	Steve Gerber
Pencilers	Phil Winslade
Inkers	Steve Leialoha
Colorists	Nathan Eyring
Thanks for Nothing
Writers	John Ney Rieber
Pencilers	Steve Parkhouse
Inkers	Steve Parkhouse
Colorists	Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh Daniel Vozzo
And We're All Police Men
Writers	Grant Morrison
Pencilers	Philip Bond
Inkers	Glyn Dillon
Colorists	Daniel Vozzo
Next Issue	Vertigo: Winter's Edge # 2

Aren't you guh glad we've spent the entuhire holidays together?

— Abel

Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1 is an issue of the series Vertigo: Winter's Edge (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1998.

Appearing in "Winter's Edge"

Featured Characters:

• Rain (Single appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Ben (Single appearance)
• The Curator (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
• Traci (Single appearance)

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• Marcus (Single appearance)
• Paul (Single appearance)
• Jesus (Mentioned only)
• Rain's mother (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Santa Claus (Mentioned only)
• Tim Hunter (Mentioned only)
• Martha Stewart (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Vertigo Universe (Unnamed)
  • 1997
    • United States of America
      • Seattle
• Hell (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Paintings
  • A Dream of Two Houses/Hell's Blazing Remembrance
  • The Endless Desire
  • Invisible Mob
  • The Magician's Book
  • The Minx
  • Nevada

Vehicles:

• 
  
  

Appearing in "The Flowers of Romance"

Featured Characters:

• The Little Goat-footed Man (Single appearance; dies) (Unnamed) (Also in a dream sequence)

Supporting Characters:

• Desire
• Sue (Phil's girlfriend) (Single appearance) (Also in a dream sequence)

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• Harpies (Cameo)
• Nymphs
• Phil (Archeologist) (Single appearance)
• Satyrs
• Death (Mentioned only)
• Dream (Daniel Hall) (Mentioned only)
• Dryads (Mentioned only)
• Naiads (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Dream Realm (Cameo)
• Vertigo Universe (Unnamed)
  • Greece (Flashback and main story)
  • France
    • Paris (Mentioned only)

Items:

• The Little Goat-footed Man's Flute

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Appearing in "Mazel Tov, Leo"

Featured Characters:

• Tom Jones (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Joe Schwarz (First appearance)
• The Minx (Anna Schwarz) (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Miriam Schwarz (First appearance; unnamed)

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• Senator Ben Sharkey (Single appearance) (As a spirit)
• The Monkey God (First appearance) (Statue only) (Cameo)
• Leo (Tom Jones' roomate) (Mentioned only)
• Tom Jones (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• The Minx Universe (Unnamed)
  • 1998
    • United States of America
      • Schwarz House (First appearance)

Items:

• Leo's Kippa (Single appearance)

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Appearing in "Spirit of the Season"

Featured Characters:

• The Sandman (Wesley Dodds)

Supporting Characters:

• Dian Belmont
• The Rabbi (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
• Yara Koroff (Single appearance) (Flashback and main story)

Antagonists:

• Unnamed robbers (Single appearance)
  • Monty (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• Alexi (Single appearance) (Dies in flashback)
• Mr. Koroff (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Dies in flashback)
• Marina Dodds (Grave)
• Nazis (Flashback only) (Cameo)
• Edward Dodds (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Ghosts (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)
• New York City Police Department (Mentioned only)
• Santa Claus (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• New Earth
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Poland
    • Warsaw (Flashback only)
  • United States of America (Flashback and main story)
    • New York City

Items:

• Sandman's Gas Gun
• Sandman's Gas Mask

Events:

• World War II (Flashback only)
  

Appearing in "Deck the Halls"

Featured Characters:

• Abel
• Cain

Supporting Characters:

• Gregory
• Merv Pumpkinhead

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• Dreamthings (Cameo)
  • Corinthian (Cameo)
• Eve (Cameo)
• Gargoyles
  • Goldie (In a photograph only)
• Lucien (Cameo)
• Matthew the Raven (Cameo)
• Santa Claus/Saint Nick (In picture only)
  • Santa's reindeers (In picture only)
• Elves (Mentioned only)
• Fairies (Mentioned only)
  • Sugar Plum Fairy (Mentioned only)
• Shamans (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• The Dreaming
  • House of Mystery
  • House of Secrets
• Waking World
  • Estonia (Mentioned only)
  • Germany (Mentioned only)
  • Sweden (Mentioned only)

Items:

• 
  

Concepts:

• Halloween (Mentioned only)
• Magic
  • Mark of Cain (Mentioned only)
    

Appearing in "Tell Me"

Featured Characters:

• John Constantine

Supporting Characters:

• The Girlfriend (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Flashback and main story)
• "The Man" (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Dies in flashback) (Also as a spirit) (Also in a dream sequence)
• Wright Family (Cameo)
  • Dani Wright
  • Eldrick Wright
  • Ethan Wright
  • Uncle Fred Wright
  • Gramps (Unnamed)
  • Kyle Wright
  • Mary Wright
  • Terrell Wright

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• Elves (Mentioned only)
• God (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Dreamtime (Cameo)
• Vertigo Universe (Unnamed)
  • United States of America
    • New Rochelle
      • Wright House
    • New York City (Flashback and main story)
      • Manhattan
• Hell (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Alcohol
• Bunny doll (Single appearance) (Flashback and main story)
• Silk Cut

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Appearing in "Piss on Earth"

Featured Characters:

• Nevada (First appearance) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a dream sequence)

Supporting Characters:

• Benny (Bushwackers' bartender) (First appearance)
• Bolero the Ostrich (First appearance) (Also in a dream sequence)
• "Joseph" (Single appearance) (In dream sequence only)
• "Lisa-Marie" (Single appearance) (In dream sequence only)

Antagonists:

• Reverend J. Pierce Polk (First appearance) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a dream sequence)

Other Characters:

• Dreamthings
• Jesus (Statue only)
• John Lennon (In picture only) (Cameo)
• Saint Joseph (Statue only)
• Virgin Mary (Statue only)
• Santa Claus (Statue only)
• Yoko Ono (In picture only) (Cameo)
• Elves (Mentioned only)
• Nevada's mother (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• The Dreaming
  • The Faboulous Bethlehem (Single appearance)
• Nevada Universe (Unnamed)
  • United States of America
    • Nevada
      • Las Vegas
        • Bushwackers Bar (First appearance)
        • Nevada's Apartment (First appearance)
  • Israel
    • Bethlehem (Mentioned only)
    • Nazareth (Mentioned only)
  • Russia
    • Kamchatka Peninsula (Mentioned only)
• Paradise (Mentioned only)

Items:

• 
  

Vehicles:

• Santa's Sleigh (Statue only)

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Appearing in "Thanks for Nothing"

Featured Characters:

• Tim Hunter

Supporting Characters:

• Erica (Single appearance) (Flashback and main story)

Antagonists:

• Winter Demon (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• Merlin (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Vertigo Universe (Unnamed)
  • Antarctica (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
  • United States of America (Flashback and main story)
    • Boston
      • Andersen Children's Home (Single appearance) (Flashback only)
      • Saint Catherine's (Mentioned only)
    • New York City

Items:

• Drugs

Concepts:

• Magic
  

Appearing in "And We're All Police Men"

Featured Characters:

• Gideon Stargrave

Supporting Characters:

• Blair (Single appearance)
• Queen Genevieve

Antagonists:

• 
  

Other Characters:

• God (Mentioned only)
• Titans of Myth (Mentioned only)
  • Chronos (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• The Invisibles Universe (Unnamed)
  • England
    • London

Items:

• 
  

Vehicles:

• Gideon's Lamborghini

Notes

• The "Winter's Edge" story takes place on Christmas Day 1997.
• The events in the present from "The Flowers of Romance" take place on December 23, 1997.
• The "Mazel Tov, Leo" story is continued in Minx (Volume 1).
• The "Deck the Halls" story takes place not long before the events of The Dreaming #26.
  • Cain mentions that his House "tried to kill him" which foreshadows the events of The Dreaming #27–28.
• Constantine's story takes place on Christmas Day 1997, one month after the events of Hellblazer #121–Hellblazer #124, which featured his first meeting with Dani's family on Thanksgiving Day.
  • Constantine's story chronologically continues in Hellblazer #125.
• The "Piss on Earth" story is continued in Nevada (Volume 1).
• "The Flowers of Romance" is reprinted in:
  • The Absolute Sandman Vol. 2;
  • The Sandman: Deluxe Edition, Book Two;
  • The Sandman, Book Two.
• "And We're All Police Men" is reprinted in The Invisibles Omnibus.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Vertigo: Winter's Edge series
• Images from Vertigo: Winter's Edge Vol 1 1

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