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DESTINY: A CHRONICLE OF DEATHS FORETOLD #1
Cover Date: 1997
Cover Price: $5.95
Publication Date: 1997-09-17
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Cover Credits:
Art: Kent Williams
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Credits:
| Story | Alisa Kwitney |
| Art | Kent Williams (pp.1-11, 45-48), Michael Zulli (pp.12-44) |
| Lettering | Todd Klein |
| Colors | Kent Williams (pp.1-11, 45-48), Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh (pp.12-44) |
| Editing | Karen Berger, Joan Hilty |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Ruth Knight (a survivor of a pandemic; first appearance)
- John Ryder (first appearance; also in flashback to 541–542)
Other Character(s):
- Julian Boyle (another pandemic survivor; first appearance)
- Clarissa Boyle (his wife; first appearance)
- Martin O'Donnel (a former sporting goods store owner; first appearance)
- Norman Leberman (a former newspaperman; first appearance)
- Janet Clark (first appearance)
- a feral boy and girl (first appearance of both)
- Justinian I (Emperor of the Byzantine Empire; last in Rip Hunter... Time Master #21)
- Theodora (Empress of the Byzantine Empire; last in Rip Hunter... Time Master #21)
- Buzes
- Procopius
- Belisarius
- Antonina
- Basil
- Ursula
- Constantine
Location(s):
- a small town, presumably in the Northeastern United States
- Byzantium (in the years 541–542)
Comment(s):
- The "present day" of this issue's story takes place on October 22, 2009, some seven years after an antibiotic resistant strain of the Bubonic Plague which has devastated the world. The flashback story focuses on the Plague of Justinian, 541–542.
- Story continues in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold ([February 2000])
Solicitation:
- Beginning a 3-issue miniseries delving into the past and future of Destiny of the Endless, with painted covers and framing sequences by Kent Williams. In the year 2009, a small town holds out against a devastating pandemic, its remaining inhabitants desperately hoping to survive the next outbreak of plague. Then a mysterious stranger arrives from nowhere, selling a page that he claims is not only taken from the Book of Destiny, but also foretells the four great plagues of humankind, including where the current one will strike next. To convince them of its worth, he offers to read from the page, revealing Destiny's role-as well as his own-in the previous three plagues, starting with the epidemic that struck the Byzantine empire.