Comic Title: Hellblazer #27
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: March 1990
On Sale Date: January 23, 1990 Shipping Date January 23, 1990
Source: Previews, #11

Copyright Date January 23, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Shipping Date January 25, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #13

Shipping Date December 21, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #12

Direct Market Date January 25, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #132, #133

Shipping Date December 19, 1989
Source: Previews, #10

Direct Market Date December 21, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #128, #129, #130

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

Title: "Hold Me"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artist/Colorist: Dave McKean
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Daniel Vozzo

Reprinted In:
Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days TPB (2000)
Constantine:The Hellblazer Collection TPB (2005)
Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days:The Deluxe Edition HC (2012)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Family Man TPB (2013)
Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days TPB (2016)
John Constantine:The Hellblazer 2018 (Halloween Comicfest Edition) #1 (2018)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:30th Anniversary Celebration HC (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #26; next appearance in Hellblazer #28)

Other Character(s)

• Jacko (a homeless man; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Fat Ronnie and Sylvia (a homeless couple; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Anthea (a friend of Ray Monde; no further appearances)
• Shona and her mother (no further appearances)
• Several party guests (Jeff named; no further appearances)
• A cab driver (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Ray Monde (in flashback)

Synopsis:
John Constantine attends a party held in the memory of his late friend Ray Monde. At the party, he is introduced to a woman name Anthea who asks John to walk her home. She invites John inside, then she makes her interest in him clear. Suddenly, John remembers that Ray mentioned Anthea and that she is a lesbian. When Constantine questions her, he learns that she wants a baby and sees John as someone to get her pregnant.

John takes offense and leaves. While leaving the building, he meets a young girl. Her mother has just died. John looks into it and finds her cold dead body. He also finds the ghost of a homeless man named Jacko who froze to death in the building months earlier. His body was not found. The ghost wants someone to hold him. John obliges. The ghost is warmed, then vanishes.