Comic Title: Hellblazer #13
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: September 20, 1988 Shipping Date September 20, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Copyright Date September 20, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "On the Beach"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: Richard Piers Rayner
Inker: Mark Buckingham
Artist: Mike Hoffman
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Devil You Know TPB (2007)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Devil You Know TPB (2012)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #12; next appearance in Hellblazer #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Cheryl Masters (in flashback to John's childhood; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #35)

Other Character(s)

• A mother and her two children (no further appearances)
• Tony and his girlfriend (no further appearances)
• Thomas Constantine (name not revealed in this story; in flashback; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #31)
• A group of protestors (no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• John Constantine (during his childhood; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #35)

Synopsis:
John Constantine visits the beach where he spent more innocent days as a child. A group of protestors make noise because they oppose the nearby nuclear power plant. John then falls asleep.

He dreams that the nuclear plant explodes. He and the other people on the beach receive a lethal dose of radiation. A mother takes her two children into the water to die. John and a young woman are left alone to die. He gets her pregnant and eventually she gives birth to a two-headed baby seal. The baby is then killed by the animated skeletons of the dead sea gulls.

After he himself becomes a skeleton and walks into the ocean, John awakens haunted by his own nightmares.