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Introduction
Promethea's the kind of book that, every time you think you should drop it, that you can live without it, that it's so abstract that you'd be better off waiting for the next trade, you get to an undeniably brilliant, medium-bending passage in the issue at hand and realize that you'd be a fool not to read a 24-page continuing panel that loops back over itself, or see Hermes stare at the reader, recognizing that he's in a comic book, as soon as you fucking could.
The first twelve issues of Promethea focused on the dawning of a new Promethea and her adventures in a retrofuturistic city. Beginning with #13 and running through #25 (published bimonthly over two years), the title embarked upon a lengthy story exploring (if not dissecting) the world of magic framed around Promethea's journey through the Immateria. Issues #26-33 dealt with nothing less than the apocalypse, gathering the various heroes of America's Best Comics to deal with a Promethea intent upon ending the world.

CONTENTS
PERIODICALS
BOOKS
  • Promethea #1-32
  • Promethea: Book One
  • Promethea: Book Two
  • Promethea: Book Three
  • Promethea: Book Four
  • IMAGE
    TITLE
    DESCRIPTION
    STATUS
    Promethea #1-32: Alan Moore script
    Promethea #1-3, most of 4, all of 5-6, most of 7, all of 8-32: J. H. Williams & Mick Gray art
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #132 pages; also includes a 2-page text history of Promethea; Alex Ross cover; cover-dated August 1999
    1
    Promethea #1 [alternate cover], 2-18: J. H. Williams & Mick Gray cover
    Promethea #1 [alternate cover]J. H. Williams & Mick Gray cover
    0
    Promethea #2cover-dated September 1999
    1
    Promethea #3cover-dated October 1999
    1
    Promethea #48 pages of Charles Vess art; cover-dated November 1999
    1
    Promethea #5cover-dated February 2000
    1
    Promethea #6cover-dated March 2000
    1

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    Promethea: Book Onecollects Promethea #1-6
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    0
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea: Book One [hardcover edition]published months prior to the softcover
    0
    Promethea #7about 8 pages of beautiful Jose Villarrubia digital art; cover-dated April 2000
    1
    Promethea #8cover-dated July 2000
    1
    Promethea #9cover-dated September 2000
    1
    Promethea #10cover-dated October 2000; published on Wednesday, 30 August 2000
    1
    Promethea #11occurs on the night of 31 December 1999 and immediately afterwards (overlapping Tom Strong #7); cover-dated December 2000; published on Wednesday, 25 October 2000
    1
    Promethea #12continued from the previous issue; the art flows from page to page, with the last page flowing into the first, making all 24 pages a single, looping (and thus infinite) panel; cover-dated February 2001; published on Wednesday, 20 December 2000
    1
    Promethea: Book Twocollects Promethea #7-12
    0
    Promethea: Book Two [hardcover edition]published months prior to the softcover
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    0
    The 9-page Promethea short story (written by Steve Moore, the first instance of anyone else writing Promethea, with art by Eric Shanower) from America's Best Comics Special, published on 29 December 2000, occurs here
    Promethea #13jumps the narrative forward to the summer of 2000; Jose Villarrubia cover; cover-dated April 2001; published on Wednesday, 21 February 2001
    1
    Promethea #14cover-dated June 2001; published on Wednesday, 25 April 2001
    1
    Promethea #15has a double-page spread that cleverly reads as a Moebius strip and not by its panel breakdowns (which are brilliantly present); has Hermes look at the reader; cover-dated August 2001; published on Wednesday, 27 June 2001
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #16cover-dated October 2001; published on Wednesday, 22 August 2001
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #17the two Prometheas visit the realm of the sun and have visions of Apollo and Christ; cover-dated December 2001; published on Wednesday, 31 October 2001
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #18cover-dated February 2002; published on Friday, 28 December 2001
    1
    Promethea: Book Threecollects Promethea #13-18
    0
    Promethea: Book Three [hardcover edition]published months prior to the softcover
    0
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #19"Fatherland"; published on 27 February 2002
    1
    without indicia

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    Promethea #20published on Wednesday, 17 April 2002
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #21published on Wednesday, 26 June 2002
    1
    Promethea #22cover-dated November 2002
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #2332 pages; cover-dated December 2002
    1
    without titles or indicia

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    Promethea #24the new and old Promethea fight, juxtaposed to a battle between two past Prometheas, one representing the West (Rome and Europe) and the other representing the East (Byzantium and Islam); cover-dated February 2003
    1
    without indicia

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    Promethea #25cover-dated May 2003; published on Wednesday, 5 March 2003
    1
    Promethea: Book Fourcollects Promethea #19-25
    0
    Promethea: Book Four [hardcover edition]published months prior to the softcover
    0
    without indicia

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    Promethea #26 Tom Strong appears in the conclusion; cover-dated August 2003
    1
    Promethea #27 Tom Strong appears to warn Sophie, causing her to transform into Promethea and begin bringing about Armaggeddon; cover-dated November 2003
    0
    Promethea #28 Tom Strong assembles a team consisting of Jonni Future (from Tom Strong's Terrific Tales), plus Cobweb, Jack B. Quick, Greyshirt, and Splash Brannigan (all from Tomorrow Stories); Stan the mechanic revealed to be behind the Painted Doll, who actually is a number of mutiple, independent bodies; cover-dated January 2004
    0
    without indicia

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    Promethea #29
    0
    Promethea #30
    0
    Promethea #31
    0
    Promethea #32
    0

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