Comic Title: Hellblazer #9
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: May 24, 1988 Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Shipping Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Copyright Date May 24, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Shot to Hell"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: John Ridgway
Inker: Alfredo P. Alcala
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
John Constantine Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB (1992)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:Original Sins TPB (2011)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #8; next appearance in Swamp Thing #76)

Supporting Character(s)

• Zed (last appearance in Hellblazer #8; next appearance in Hellblazer #10)
• Emma (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; no further appearances)
• Gary Lester (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; next appearance in Hellblazer #11)
• Ray Monde (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; no further appearances)
• Frank North (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; next appearance in Hellblazer #11)
• Benjamin Cox (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; next appearance in Hellblazer #11)
• Sister Anne-Marie (as a ghost; last appearance in Hellblazer #7; next appearance in Hellblazer #11)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Swamp Thing (last appearance in Swamp Thing #75; next appearance in Swamp Thing #76)

Comments:
This story takes place on John's 35th birthday and continues in part in Swamp Thing #76.

Synopsis:
After his encounter with Nergal, John is depressed and at the brink of despair. He is also haunted by the ghosts of his dead friends. Finally he comes face-to-face with his own ghost who inspires himself to clean up and do what he must.

He visits Zed at the compound of the Resurrection Crusaders. He is unable to convince her to leave, but he does have sex with her. The demon's blood which now courses through his veins, spreads its taint to Zed via the sexual act. This despoils her and will prevent the Crusaders from using her to give birth to a new Christ child.

Guilty over his actions, John returns home and concocts a plan to balance the scales. When the Swamp Thing conveniently appears before him, John explains the plan to the elemental.