| Unofficial Sandman Presents: Petrefax Index |
SANDMAN PRESENTS: PETREFAX #1
Cover Date: March 2000
Cover Price: $2.95
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Cover Credits:
Art: Pascal Alixe
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Credits:
| Story | Mike Carey |
| Art | Steve Leialoha |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Bjarne Hansen |
| Color separations | Heroic Age |
| Consulting editing | Neil Gaiman |
| Editing | Joan Hilty |
Feature Character(s):
- Petrefax (last in Sandman Vol. 2 #56)
Supporting Character(s):
- Calcinia Smith (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- Lord Phrax Bulgus (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Meldred Smith (father of Calcinia Smith; first appearance; next in issue #1)
- Dogma Smith (mother of Calcinia Smith; first appearance; next in issue #1)
- Bedger (a servant of the Smith family; first appearance)
- Tolemew (a servant of the Smith family; first appearance)
- Alice (a servant of the Smith family; first appearance)
- Wessel (bartender at The Last Kiss; first appearance)
- Angelie (barmaid at The Last Kiss; first appearance)
- Bal Cyphyro (a demon, for 300 years the hereditary estate manager and solicitor for the Lords Bulgus; first appearance)
- Lord Malachi Bulgus (brother of Phrax Bulgus; first appearance; in flashback; dies, killed by his brother)
- Ishmir (an old gypsy woman; first appearance)
- Raven (her son; first appearance)
- members of a gypsy camp (first appearance of all)
Location(s):
- Malegrise
Comment(s):
- This story takes place in April.
- Story continues in the next issue.
Solicitation:
- Written by Mike Carey (SANDMAN PRESENTS: LUCIFER) with stunning, intricate art by Steve Leialoha (NEVADA) and beautiful covers by Pascal Alixe (THE BATMAN CHRONICLES, GEN13), PETREFAX takes us to Malegrise, a land with the look of 18th-century England and a culture of magic all its own, where nearly every citizen is a sorcerer. When the beautiful, stubborn Calcinia Smith tries to escape a forced marriage by using gypsy magic to feign her death, she becomes trapped in a physical limbo, her soul intact, but her body dead and deteriorating fast. Hired to embalm her, Petrefax is now the only one who knows her secret, and the only one who can keep her "alive" with his skills. Pulled into Calcinia's cross-country quest to escape her fate, Petrefax must contend with supernatural monsters, bigoted aristocrats, and the sorcerous wrath of her jilted groom in a rousing tale that finds humanity in magic, and humor in the trappings of death.