Introduction In 1999, DC took a chance on an unknown writer named Brian Azzarello, giving him an ongoing, creator-owned series with foreign artist Eduardo Risso. Titled 100 Bullets, this crime comic book began as an anthology of sorts, letting the creators tell various stories with various characters based on the conceit of a mysterious person who offers people a gun and bullets that cannot be traced and that, once identified, will cause police to drop the case. The stories were designed to gravitate around realistic, sometimes slice-of-life characters who were offered the chance to revenge themselves scott-free. Increasingly, however, the major players behind the gun, their allies and enemies, took center stage, a move sort of like making the Crypt Keeper a focus of his stories. Azzarello quickly became a major writer in the sagging American comics industry. DC gave him the job of writer on Hellblazer. Marvel offered him mini-series such as Startling Stories: Banner and Cage, both with art by Richard Corben, who had also illustrated Azzarello's first storyline on Hellblazer. Risso also received attention, including reprinting of some of the European graphic novels he had illustrated. Azzarello and Risso were given, as a team, the job of following Hush, the successful storyline by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, on Batman. And all of this came despite the fact that, while critically successful, 100 Bullets was never particularly a financial success.

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100 Bullets #1-60, the short 100 Bullets story in Vertigo: Winter's Edge III: Brian Azzarello script, Eduardo Risso art
the short 100 Bullets story (by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso) from Vertigo: Winter's Edge III occurs (or was published) here
100 Bullets #1-60: Dave Johnson cover
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Larger Version Available	100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call	collects 100 Bullets #1-5 and the short story from Vertigo: Winter's Edge III; Jim Steranko introduction; 127 pages; published in 2000 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
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Larger Version Available	100 Bullets: Split Second Chance	collects 100 Bullets #6-14; Howard Chaykin introduction; 223 pages; published in 2001 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
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Larger Version Available	100 Bullets: Hang Up on the Hang Low	collects 100 Bullets #15-19; Jim Lee introduction; 126 pages; published in late 2001 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
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	100 Bullets: A Foregone Tomorrow	collects 100 Bullets #20-30; Bill Savage introduction; 262 pages; published in 2002 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
100 Bullets #31-36: "The Counterfifth Detective" storyline
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	100 Bullets: The Counterfifth Detective	collects 100 Bullets #31-36; Rob Elder introduction; published on Wednesday, 5 March 2003 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	100 Bullets #37	focuses on Dizzy [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	100 Bullets #38	focuses on Cole	0
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without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	100 Bullets #42	focuses on Wylie; published on Wednesday, 5 March 2003	0
	100 Bullets: Six Feet Under the Gun	collects 100 Bullets #37-42; Greg Rucka introduction	0
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	100 Bullets: Samurai	collects 100 Bullets #43-49; cover-dated September 2004	0
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