Comic Title: Hellblazer #14
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: October 18, 1988 Shipping Date October 18, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #9

Shipping Date October 20, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #150

Copyright Date November 8, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Touching the Earth"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

Writer: Jamie Delano
Penciller: Richard Piers Rayner
Inker: Mark Buckingham
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Reprinted In:
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Fear Machine TPB (2008)
John Constantine, Hellblazer:The Fear Machine TPB (2012)

Feature Character(s)

• John Constantine (last appearance in Hellblazer #13; next appearance in Hellblazer #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mercury (a teenage girl; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #15)
• Marj (a hippy; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #15)
• Eddy (leader of a travelling group of hippies; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #15)
• The Freedom Mob (a group of hippies; first appearance; next appearance in Hellblazer #15)
• Errol (next appearance in Hellblazer #15)
• Jo and Sam (next appearance in Hellblazer #16)

Other Character(s)

• July (a bartender; no further appearances)
• Two policemen (Mike named; no further appearances)

Comments:
The Fear Machine, Part I

This story continues in part in Hellblazer #15.

Synopsis:
John awakens in the bed of a woman he met at a bar the previous evening. He sneaks out of the house and picks up a paper at the nearby market. The tabloids feature his photograph and a headline entitled "Face of Evil". The text indicates he is sought after by the police.

Seeking to get out of town, John starts hitchhiking. After a brief encounter with two policemen, John comes into the company of a trio of wanderers, Marj, Mercury, and Eddie. The group takes him in and eventually introduces him to the Freedom Mob, a group of traveling survivalists who live off the land. Although, John is uncomfortable outside the city, he attempts to fit in with them.