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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published January 2000
Cover Price $2.50
Pages 36
Editing John Layman
Notes This cover is a homage to Dave McKean's Sandman covers from the 1990s.

Cover Details

Characters Jack Carter
Genre science fiction
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Notes This cover is a homage to Dave McKean's Sandman covers from the 1990s.
Reprinted in Wildstorm (Magic Press, 2000 series) #11

22 page Planetary story "To Be In England, In the Summertime"

Characters Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Jack Carter; the modern Herod; an unnamed superhero; unnamed mourners
Synopsis Planetary attends the funeral of Jack Carter, a 1980s major magic user and one of Jakita’'s former lovers.
Genre science fiction
Script Warren Ellis
Pencils John Cassaday
Inks John Cassaday
Colors David Baron; Laura DePuy
Letters Ryan Cline
Notes The attendees at the funeral are homages to the 1980s DC Vertigo line. They include: the Sandman, Death, Black Orchid, Animal Man, The Writer (Grant Morrison), Swamp Thing, the Demon, the Doom Patrol, the Metal Men (not a Vertigo book), the Ragman, Shade, the Changing Man, and other unidentified mourners. Jack Carter is also a homage to John Constantine, another DC Vertigo character. Credits include "with thanks to Laura DePuy"
Reprinted in Planetary: The Fourth Man (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Absolute Planetary (DC, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Wildstorm (Magic Press, 2000 series) #11