Comic Title: Constantine:The Hellblazer Collection TPB
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: January 5, 2005 Direct Market Date January 5, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 14 #11 (#191)

Direct Market Date January 5, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Cover Price: $14.95
Page Count: 168
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Hunger"
Pages: 40

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Artist: John Ridgway
Letterer: Annie Parkhouse (Halfacree)
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted From:
Hellblazer #1 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Swamp Thing #67; next appearance in Hellblazer #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Papa Midnite (first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #2)
• Chas (first appearance; last appearance in Hellblazer Annual #1; next appearance in Hellblazer #4)
• Gary Lester (a junkie; first appearance; last appearance in Hellblazer #11; next appearance in Hellblazer #2)
• Emma (John's ex-girlfriend; as a spirit; next appearance in Hellblazer #2)

Villain(s)

• Mnemoth (a hunger demon; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #2)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. McGuire (John's landlady; last name revealed in Hellblazer #10; next appearance in Swamp Thing #76)
• A sudanese boy (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A sudenese shaman (no further appearances)
• Henry Wambach (a post master; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• An anthropology professor (no further appearances)
• A zombie (a servant of Midnite; no further appearances)
• An unnamed artist (no further appearances)
• Eddie and his girlfriend (victims of Mnemoth; no further appearances)
• A priest (no further appearances)
• Kenny and Wayne (members of the British Boys, a street gang; Wayne not named in this story; next appearance in Hellblazer #4)

Comments:
This story continues in Hellblazer #2.

Synopsis:
John Constantine returns to his apartment in London. He finds his junkie friend Gary Lester in the bathroom covered with insects. After killing the bugs, John questions Lester. He learns that the junkie was recently in Tangier. While there, Lester met a young boy who was possessed by a demon. He performs an exorcism and trapped the demon, Mnemoth, in a bottle which he brought back to London where he expected to find Constantine.

The demon attempted to coerce Lester into releasing him from the bottle. Since John wasn't home, the junkie mailed the bottled demon to America where he thought it would reach John. Constantine phones Papa Midnite in New York and learns that the hunger demon is loose.

John travels to the Sudan to meet with a shaman. The medicine man had imprisoned the demon in the boy using a binding spell. However, the boy was found by slave traders and sold. John learns how to bind the demon once again.

After picking up Lester from London, John arrives in New York. He visits Papa Midnite and leaves Lester in his care. On the street, John witnesses a man with insatiable hunger caused by the demon. Constantine traces the demon to a church, but it is too powerful for him to stop alone. He flees, leaving the demon to possess a priest.