Crusades (comics)

The Crusades

Publication information
Publisher| Vertigo
Schedule| Monthly
Format| Ongoing series
Publication date| June 2001 – December 2002
No. of issues| 21 (Urban Decree one-shot, Crusades #1–20)
Creative team
Created by| Steven T. Seagle
Kelley Jones
Written by| Steven T. Seagle
Penciller(s)| Kelley Jones
Inker(s)| Jason Moore
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 penciller Kelley Jones.

## Publication history

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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

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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

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Image Comics released the series in two hardcovers:[1]

* Volume 1: The Knight (256 pages, Image Comics, August 2010, ISBN 978-1-60706-288-2) reprinting The Crusades: Urban Decree and The Crusades #1–9
* Volume 2: Dei (256 Pages, Image Comics, February 2011, ISBN 978-1-60706-302-5) reprinting The Crusades #10-20

## Notes

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

## References

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* Crusades at the Grand Comics Database
* Crusades at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

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