Crusades (comics)

The Crusades
Publication information
Publisher Vertigo
Schedule Monthly
Format Ongoing series
Genre
    Publication date June 2001 – December 2002
    Number of issues 21 (Urban Decree one-shot, Crusades #1-20)
    Creative team
    Writer(s) Steven T. Seagle
    Penciller(s) Kelley Jones
    Creator(s) Steven T. Seagle
    Kelley Jones
    Collected editions
    Volume 1: The Knight ISBN 978-1-60706-288-2

    The Crusades is an American comic book series published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. It was created by writer Steven T. Seagle and artist Kelley Jones.

    Publication history

    The series comprises a one-shot special entitled The Crusades: Urban Decree (which introduced the characters and premise) and an ongoing series, simply titled The Crusades which ran in comics cover dated between June 2001 and December 2002.

    Plot

    The series was set in a fictionalised San Francisco and featured a large cast of characters whose lives are thrown into disarray by the sudden appearance of a murderous 11th Century Knight in the city. Main Characters included Anton Marx, a leftwing political radio "shock jock", his fact checker girlfriend Venus Kostopikas, her friend Detective Addas Petronas and the rival gangsters Tony Quetone and "the Pope".

    Collected editions

    Image Comics is releasing the series in two hardcovers:[1]

    Notes

    1. ↑ "Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones' "The Crusades" Collected for the First Time by Image". Comic Book Resources. April 28, 2010.

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