Comic Title: John Constantine:The Hellblazer 2018 (Halloween Comicfest Edition) #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 2018
On Sale Date: October 27, 2018 Direct Market Date October 27, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Saturday, October 27, 2018

Direct Market Date October 27, 2018
Source: Previews, #358

Cover Price: No Price
Page Count: 32

Title: "Hold Me"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Hellblazer

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

Reprinted From:
Hellblazer #27 (1990)

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.