#2416: Vampirella Dracula the Centennial (1997)

Okay, this one is genuinely troubling from a coding perspective.

Our copy of this book has 76 pages. The problem is that 48 of these appear twice. The last 24 pages of this books seem to have been included twice. The GCD reports this as 52-page comic book, and, indeed, aligns with exactly what we have here, except that we have some of it twice.

I would call this an error and disregard the second 24 pages except for the fact that this is a squarebound comic and all of the binding looks exactly aligned, as if it was supposed to be a 76-page comic (which would make sense, as it is a special edition centennial thingy). So, we’re filing this under “I don’t know”.

The writers of the stories here, by the way, are Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and James Robinson. So little seems to have been written in the scholarship about the overlap of Vertigo and Harris Comics….

#2418: Vermillion #12 (1997)

Strange one. This is the final issue of this series, part of DC’s late-1990s abortive Helix line, their attempt to do for science-fiction what Vertigo had successfully done for fantasy earlier in the decade. There is nothing noteworthy at first glance about this comic, except that our copy has the pages printed out of order. For a second, I even considered that it might’ve been done deliberately.

I just checked around, and it doesn’t seem to be a commonly reported incident, so I’m guessing that it is just this copy that is messed up, rather than the complete print run. According to the numbers at Chomichron, this issue sold only 5,669 copies. Even with these sad sales numbers, this title was one of the more successful books in the Helix imprint - only four titles made it to a twelfth issue (the most successful, obviously, was Transmetropolitan, which was shifted to Vertigo when Helix folded).

I’m not sure that the misprinting actually affects our coding of the book, so we probably won’t bother to replace it.