Comic Title: Hellblazer #26
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: February 1990
On Sale Date: December 19, 1989 Shipping Date December 19, 1989
Source: Previews, #11

Shipping Date November 21, 1989
Source: Previews, #9

Shipping Date December 19, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #174
Misnumbered #27

Copyright Date December 19, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date December 21, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #13

Shipping Date November 23, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #11

Direct Market Date November 23, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #125, #126

Shipping Date November 21, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #173

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "How I Learned to Love the Bomb"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist/Colorist: David Lloyd
Letterer: Tomas Frame

Reprinted In:
John Constantine, Hellblazer:Rare Cuts TPB (2005)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Family Man TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #25; next appearance in Hellblazer #27)

Villain(s)

• Professor Horrobin (last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Godfrey Bayliss (last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)
• Una (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)
• Keller and Chambers (missile base guards; Keller dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Doctor Poole (dies in this story; last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)
• Residents of Thursdyke (Mr. Finn named; no further appearances)
• A group of protestors (last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)
• A truck driver (last appearance in Hellblazer #25; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Hellblazer #25.

Synopsis:
When the residents of Thursdyke are driven mad by microwave radiation unleashed on the town, the people begin acting violent. A group of protesters led by Parson Bayliss raid the nearby missile base. John Constantine is also affected, but his friend Una snaps him back to reality by using loud music. While she takes refuge in the town disco with some children, John goes to the missile base to prevent disaster.

When John arrives, he blasts music from his stolen van. The protesters nearby are returned to sanity. However, John is too late to stop Bayliss from stealing a bomber. Meanwhile, the power to the disco is cut. Una is captured by some of the mad townspeople who plan to burn her to death. Their execution is interrupted as Bayliss crashes his plane into the ground, setting off his bombs and killing everyone in the immediate vicinity.

John is spared from the blast. He watches helplessly as the media attempts to blame the protesters for the tragedy which destroyed the town of Thursdyke.