So I have spent a little time doing some research on Constantine’s appearances in DC/Vertigo comics and I came across the Ultimate Hellblazer Index by John Goodrich. John has constructed a timeline of John’s career rather than his appearances (though for a lot of it is the same thing). He has pulled in a lot of appearances in other books that I was unaware of as well.

I am going to use an adapted version of this timeline to guide my reading – one that sticks more closely to publication date rather than Constantine’s personal chronology and will ignore one-off appearances in books I do not own. So I have constructed a list of comics that will start me on the Hellblazer re-read and will cover the first 100 issues of the series with some diversions along the way. The initial list is:

• Swamp Thing 37-40
• Swamp Thing 44-50
• Swamp Thing 51
• Swamp Thing 55
• Swamp Thing 65-67
• Hellblazer 1-5
• Swamp Thing 70-73
• Hellblazer 6-7
• Swamp Thing 74
• Hellblazer 8-9
• Swamp Thing 76
• Hellblazer 10
• Swamp Thing 77
• Hellblazer 11-24
• Sandman 3
• Swamp Thing 84, 88-90
• Hellblazer 25-33
• Swamp Thing 99
• Hellblazer 34-40
• Books of Magic 1-4
• Hellblazer 41-48
• Swamp Thing 114-115
• Hellblazer 48-71
• Hellblazer Special 1
• Hellblazer 72-75
• Swamp Thing 134-138
• Hellblazer 76-83
• The Horrorist 1-2
• Hellblazer 84-100