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The timeline below is about Hellblazer (1989-2013) and its related comics, referring to and based on the chapter *A Hell of a Time(line)* by Rich Handley from *John Constantine Hellblazer - 30th Anniversary Celebration* (2018).

## A Hell of a Time(line)

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### Introduction

When John Constantine spoke his first line of dialogue in SWAMP THING issue #37, way back in 1985 (following a nonspeaking cameo in issue #25), writer Alan Moore and artists John Totleben, Stephen Bissette and Rick Veitch could not have predicted the incredible longevity their chain-smoking conman would enjoy — in SWAMP THING, in HELLBLAZER, in THE BOOKS OF MAGIC, and as a guest in many other series — or that the mage would be going strong all these years later. But Constantine still blazes his way across Hell, Heaven, and Earth to this day, remaining a favorite among fans of DC and Vertigo Comics.

Constantine's history is enormously rich, and he's just the latest in a long line of mages, occultists, sorcerers, and con men going back a million years or more. His tale is tragic, hilarious, awe-inspiring and inevitably tragic again — yet always magical — and it's incredible how much detail has been devoted to fleshing out his backstory and family tree. The following timeline chronicles the lives of John and all known ancestors and descendants, from his first appearance up to and including 2011 's FLASHPOINT issue #5. Every published appearance up to that point has been mined, including graphic novels, prose novels, RPG sourcebooks, and other works set in the comics' continuity.

Since DC revamped its universe under the New 52 concept starting with FLASHPOINT, altering Constantine's history in the process, stories published after that miniseries do not appear below. Television shows, films, and video games are likewise ignored, as they comprise separate branches of the mythos. The comics adaptation and novelization of the 2005 Constantine film are referenced, however, since John Shirley's novel War Lord sets them within HELLBLAZER continuity, albeit in a different reality.

Placements are derived from dates and other internal evidence within the comics. In SWAMP THING, HELLBLAZER and THE BOOKS OF MAGIC, characters tend to age in real time, making it easy to determine when events occur and how old characters are at any given moment. For events without specified time settings, a span of time is offered ("Between 1978 and 1980" or "Before 2012," for example), indicating when those events could feasibly occur. This chronology corrects a few inconsistencies that have cropped up in prior (otherwise excellent) timelines, with explanatory notes whenever necessary. Codes provided throughout indicate the sources, as the list below:

John Constantine is not a typical protagonist. He's just as likely to blackmail, con, rob, or hurt someone as he is to save the world; his associates include gangsters, killers, drug dealers, demons, lunatics, and perverts; and he has received incarceration for a disturbing range of crimes. Given his occult obsession, substance abuse, serial womanizing, and near lack of ethics, not to mention his having murdered several people, it seems far-fetched to label him a hero, even when he does the right thing. When it comes to the Laughing Magician, the term "antihero" has rarely been more appropriate.

As with others in the Constantine lineage, John's character flaws largely stem from a childhood marked by abuse, setbacks, poverty, and disappointments. Meanwhile, forces beyond his control — demons, as well as his own stillborn brother — work to undermine him at every turn, causing him to do just as much harm as good. Perhaps, then, we can excuse, or at least understand and empathize with, some of the appallingly poor choices he makes. But is he a hero or a villain, or both — or neither? In the final tally, how should John and his cursed bloodline be judged? For the Constantines, history speaks for itself.

### List of the Codes to Comics

Codes provided throughout indicate the sources, as follows:

## Timeline

### Prehistory

**Between 1.7 and 0.2 Million Years B.C.**

One of John Constantine's distant ancestors mocks other early humans for striking fire from stone and trying to conjure gods from shadows. [*HB* 240]

*NOTE*: The earliest evidence of humans controlling fire stems from this period.

### Before 1 A.C.

**Between 3300 and 2100 B.C.**

Konz of the Tin Mound, a Bronze Age Constantine, allows the demon N' Hept / Gurruth — the father of Nergal Draanu Veiatrophormis Memoth Asrokhel — to possess him so he can avenge his parents' murders. [*HB* 210; *War Lord*]

*NOTE*: Before becoming a frequent HELLBLAZER villain, Nergal FUN COMICS as an enemy of Doctor Fate. HB 210 identifies Nergal'sfather as the demon Gurruth of the Twelve Mouths, whereas War Lord, published the same year, calls his father N'Hept. This can be easily reconciled, as demons often have multiple names in religious mythology. A second, unrelated Nergal — an alien from the planet Oa — appears in GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL JLA: GATEKEEPER.

### 1st-10th Centuries A.C.

**336 A.D.**

Roman Emperor Constantine converts the pagan tradition Saturnalia into Christmas, much to the frustration of Arcadian, Lord of the Dance. [*HB* 49]

**543 A.D.**

As bubonic plague sweeps across Constantinople, Justinian the Great's wife Theodora seeks aid from her former lover, a magician called Constantine, who cures the emperor by summoning a demon into his body. [*Destiny*]

**6th Century**

King Arthur draws John Constantine's mind back to the time of Camelot to stop Merlin from destroying the world. John's ancestor Kon-sten-tyn assumes the throne and rules from the castle Ravenscar, but the magician becomes corrupted by his fascination with magic. [*HB* 113, Annual l]

### 11st-17th Centuries

**Between 1492 and 1503**

A spell from the heretical Gospel of Constantine allows a room in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace to remain unconsecrated so that Pope Alexander VI can rape young boys without God finding out. [*HB* 243]

**Circa 1648**

John Constantine, Doctor Occult, the Phantom Stranger, and Mister E arrive from the future to find John's Cossack ancestor, Pyotr Konstantin, who tries to alter history but ends up beheaded and then immortalized by M'NagaIah the Eternal. [*Trenchcoat*]

**September 1649**

Harry Constantine joins Oliver Cromwell 's Drogheda Massacre in order to steal loot, but angers the Ribbon Queen and is buried alive after being cursed with immortality. [*HB* 62]

**1692**

While hexing witch-finder William Matthieson, Mary Mullins pulls Rac Shade (the Changing Man), John Constantine, Kathy George, and Lenny Shapiro from the future. John and Kathy enjoy a brief romance, making Shade jealous. [*Shade* 42-44]

**Centuries Ago**

Members of the Constantine line annoy the Atlanteans. [*War Lord*]

### 18th Century

**1740 to 1741**

Linton "Papa" Midnite schemes with pub owner Hugh Constantine and his slave friend Caesar to magically turn East River sludge into Mancurian ale. The three lead a group of revolutionaries against British officer Daniel Horsmanden. Hugh is burned at the stake and hanged, then comes back from the dead via magic. [*Papa*]

**In or Before 1760**

Night-walkers kill Jack Constantine in an Essex churchyard. Robert "Hob" Gadling survives the incident but suffers nightmares for years. [*Sandman* 13]

*NOTE*: This is a different Jack Constantine than John's 20th-century uncle.

**October 25, 1760**

Johanna Constantine is born to Lord George and Lady Harriet Constantine, though rumors suggest she may be the illegitimate daughter of Sir Francis Dashwood. Johanna's twin sister dies soon after the girls' birth. [*Dreaming* 5, 7, 29; *Sandman* 7, 41, 47]

*NOTE*: Johanna is said to be 32 years old in 1794 in THE SANDMAN #29, indicating a birth year of 1762. However, issues of THE DREAMING firmly establish her birth date in 1760.

**1770s**

George and Harriet Constantine are hanged for treason. Johanna is stripped of her title, becomes a petty street magician and gives birth to a daughter, Mouse. [*Lady*]

**1785**

Johanna Constantine locates Pandora's box in exchange for the restoration of her title, estate, and fortune, and helps plant elemental Jack-in-the-Green identify Alf Oldland 's killer. She names her estate Fawney Rig. [*Lady*]

**1786**

Johanna steals papers from the Russian Imperial Court. [*Sandman* 29]

**1789**

Johanna meets Dream of the Endless and Hob Gadling in a tavern, but mistakes them for the Devil and the Wandering Jew. [*Sandman* 13, 29]

**1791**

Johanna becomes involved in a slave scandal in Louisiana. [*Sandman* 29]

**Between 1791 and 1794**

Johanna learns French, espionage, and cross-dressing tactics from Charles-Geneviéve-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Eon de Beaumont. She narrowly escapes being beheaded as a witch in Egypt. [*Sandman* 29]

**1794**

Johanna helps Dream of the Endless rescue the severed head of his son Orpheus from Maximilien Robespierre, by seducing French Revolution leader Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. [*Sandman* 29]

**1798**

Opium-dealing apothecary James Constantine stops two angels, Justinian and Faziel, from telling Samuel Taylor Coleridge how to end his poem "Kubla Khan." As a result, the work is never completed. [*HB* 105]

### 19th Century

**1826**

English nobleman Conrad Constantine studies the Necronomicon, joins occult brotherhood the Brimstone Circle, and allies with the Old Ones. He becomes the pirate Dark Conrad and kills the wife of rival Jean LaFitte. [*STv2* 111, 114]

**1827**

Johanna Constantine steals a key from prophecy-babbling bag lady Mad Hettie, who steals it back but guarantees her 99 years of life in exchange. [*Dreaming* 4, 5]

**1830s**

John Constantine's same-named ancestor is hanged at Tyburn. [*Books* II]

**1840**

British infantryman Aloysius Quinn, an ancestor of John Constantine on his mother's side, fights the Phansigar cult in Jabalpur, India. Thuggees lure Quinn to their lair and attack him with the Red Sepulchre, trapping part of his soul inside the mystical weapon. [*HB* 179, 201]

**October 25, 1859**

Johanna Constantine dies on her 99th birthday and is honored with a grave marker on the remote Greek island of Naxos. [*Dreaming* 5, 7; *Sandman* 41, 47]

**Late 19th Century**

William "Bill" Constantine (John's grandfather) and his twin brother Charles are born. William lacks his family line's penchant for magic and fails to kill Charles in the womb. Charles grows up feeling inferior. [*HB* 69; *Corinthian*]

### 1900s-1920s

**1907**

In an alternate-reality Cotham City, a wealthy occultist named Constantine helps Bruce Wayne and Harry Houdini determine whether child kidnappings perpetrated by Joker analogue the Laughing Man are supernatural in nature. [*Houdini*]

**1914**

Thomas Constantine (John's father) is born in Liverpool to William and Alice Constantine. The couple have six other sons at some point, including Roy and Jack (see below), and a daughter, Dolly. [*HB* 28, 35, 100, 253; *secret*; *Dreaming* 32]

**After 1914**

Alice Constantine dies when Thomas is young. [*HB* 28; *Dreaming* 32]

**Between 1914 and 1916**

Bill Constantine, a stevedore, enlists in the British Army during World War l. His twin, Charles, also joins but is unable to kill, even in the line of duty, and thus grows increasingly depressed. [*HB* 69; *Corinthian*]

**1916**

At the Battle of Verdun, Charles Constantine refuses to kill 14-year-old German soldier Stefan Wasserman, so his commanding officer shoots him in the genitals. Jack Constantine is born to William and Alice, then William is slain by the King of the Vampires during the Battle of the Somme. [*HB* 69; *Corinthian*; *Dreaming* 32]

**1920**

Charles Constantine visits Venice With a young heiress and encounters the Corinthian. After the rogue nightmare murders his companion, Charles finally manages to kill in retaliation. [*Corinthian*]

**October 3, 1923**

Mary Anne Quinn (John's mother) is born. [*HB* 31, 44, 179]

### 1930s-1940s

**1930s**

After surviving the Great Depression, Thomas Constantine moves to Liverpool to seek employment. [*HB* 28]

**Before 1935**

Thomas works at the Metal Box Company's Liverpool factory before pursuing a job as a dockworker. [*HB* 213]

**1935**

Thomas works in Liverpool as a stevedore like his father before him. [*HB* 28]

**1939**

John's Aunt Jean (last name unknown) is born. [*HB* 253] In an alternate reality, Scotland Yard Inspector Frank Constantine — the white sheep of the family — works with Batman to solve a murder. [*Beasts*]

**May 10, 1941**

Jack Constantine, now a petty criminal, loots medicines from bombed-out chemists until dying during a World War II air raid. Sergeant Bert White, killed in the same blast, arrests him in the afterlife. [*Dreaming* 32]

**In or Before 1943**

Thomas Constantine marries Mary Anne Quinn. [*HB* 28, 179]

**1943**

Thomas and Mary Anne have a daughter, whom they name Cheryl. [*HB* 28]

*NOTE*: VERTIGO SECRET FILES: HELLBLAZER claims Cheryl is seven years older than John, indicating a birth year of 1946, and HB 215 adheres to that date by listing it on her gravestone. However, issue #28 establishes that the tua are 10 years apart in age, setting her birth in 1943.

**1943 to 1953**

Thomas goes hungry for 10 years so that Cheryl can eat. [*HB* 28]

**Mid-1940s**

When Cheryl is young, an accident at work severs Thomas' arm. [*HB* 28]

### 1950s

**1952 or 1953**

Mary Anne Constantine gets drunk while pregnant and tries to self-abort her fetus in a bathtub. However, a woman named McCann stops her. [*Shade* 44]

**May 10, 1953**

Thomas forces Mary Anne to have a coat-hanger abortion with four months left in her pregnancy. Mary Anne is carrying twins, and one fetus, shriveled and sickly, strangles his brother with the umbilical cord, then ruptures his placenta and pushes him into the hanger's path. Mary Anne and the strangled twin die, but the weaker child, John, survives. Thomas shuns him as evil and ugly. [*HB* 31, 39, 63, 100, 288]

*NOTE*: In HB 40, John's birth seems to take place in a hospital setting involving doctors and nurses. Issue #100, however, negates this.

In one reality, the dead brother's soul enters a parallel universe and grows up to be a famous rock star. [*Sting*] In another timeline, John dies in childbirth, allowing his beautiful twin, also named John but known as the Golden Boy, to thrive and be loved by all as a spiritual leader. [*HB* 40]

*NOTE*: This volume's introduction, written by Sting in character as the Golden Child.

**Between 1953 and 1957**

When John is little, Thomas takes him and Cheryl to a Liverpool sporting arena, but it rains during the game and their team loses. [*HB* 100]

**1953 to Late 1960s**

Thomas raises Cheryl and John in Liverpool, keeping the dead twin 's existence a secret. [*HB* 28]

**Mid-1950s**

Thomas gets drunk and acts abusively toward his children. Cheryl hides in fear behind her toddler brother's high chair. [*HB* 96]

**1957**

At age four, John is a chaotic child who tends to break his toys, and Thomas finds it difficult to keep up with him. [*HB* 100] Cheryl loses her virginity to Frankie Hunter at age 14 and becomes pregnant, but her father forces her to abandon the child. The baby, raised by nurse Eva Brady, is named Finnbar (Finn). [*HB* 288, 294]

**In or After 1957**

After Cheryl develops feminine curves, her father purposely walks past her room whenever she undresses. He then masturbates while thinking about his daughter's body, though he never touches her. [*HB* 100]

**1957 or 1958**

At age four or five, John visits his mother's gravesite with his father and sees the glowing form of his aborted twin's soul. He wonders if the child is Jesus and nicknames him the Golden Boy. The spirit leaves without a word, and John throws a tantrum until Thomas smacks him for disrespecting the dead. [*HB* 39]

**1957 to Late 1960s**

John continues to see the Golden Boy whenever he feels sad, but the other child refuses to be his friend, so John grows to despise him. [*HB* 39-40]

**1959**

When John is six years old, Thomas claims the boy's head size killed his mother, then throws hot coffee at him and leaves the stain on the wall as a constant reminder. [*HB/Books*]

John visits the London Zoo and is frightened by lions. [*Pandemonium*]

**1950s to 1960s**

John and his playmates bully Gerald "Gerry" McCann, comparing the dimwitted boy to a turnip. When Gerald's brother Billy claims John's mother went to Hell for trying to self-abort, John blacks out and wets his pants — for which Thomas beats him. [*Shade* 43-44] The women in John's neighborhood deem him a sneak because he is sickly and shabbily dressed. [*HB* 39]

John and Gary "Caz" Lester become friends, though Gaz's mother considers John a bad influence on her son. [*HB* 2] John spends hours climbing rocks at the beach. He loses his balance one day and falls into a pool of crabs, sand ticks, and jellyfish. [*HB* 34] He hears about the United States and fancies it to be a magic land full of superheroes, extraterrestrials, and pizzas. [*Books* II]

John wakes up screaming one night from a precognitive nightmare of fairy Jack Green building a coffin to contain the leprosy-infected denizens of Faerie. [*HB* 110] He punches Jamie Ellis in the face for urinating on his new shoes, [*War Lord*] learns not to believe in coincidences, [*Mystery* Annual 2] and gets to know his Uncle Nobby, who sports a large beer gut. [*HB* 90]

*NOTE*: Jack Green (a fairy) and Jack-in-the-Green (an elemental) are separate DC characters.

### 1960s

#### 1960-1966

**1961**

Thomas Constantine is jailed for six months for stealing clothes, and his kids stay with their Aunt Dolly and wife-abusing Uncle Harry in Northampton. Other boys make John steal dirty books from a hermit they call the Bogeyman. He finds a buried animal corpse, mistakes it for a murdered child, and keeps its petrified heart, hoping its magic can help Dolly. After a time, she and Harry send John and Cheryl to stay with their Aunt Jean and Uncle Roy, with whom John grows close. [*HB* 35, 253, 100; *secret*]

When John is eight years old, Mictläntecutli, the Aztec god of death, appears in his bedroom. John screams until his father threatens to beat him. [*Engines*]

**In or After 1961**

Mary Anne's ghost tells John that he has the ethics of a Sunday joint, and that she worries he'll end up in jail like his father. [*HB* 66; *Subterranean*]

*NOTE*: John's mother dies during childbirth, so these interactions must involve ghostly visitations. Her concerns prove well-founded, as John serves several prison and jail stints during his lifetime.

**1960s**

John becomes familiar with the works of an occultist named Fraser. [*HB* 143] He looks inside a truck transporting offal and cow heads, then suffers a week of sleepless nights, unable to stop thinking about the contents. Each summer, John visits his Aunt Beatt for two weeks with Thomas and Cheryl at her home near Clacton Pier, where he reads comics, eats beans on toast, watches Rawhide on television, and visits the Fun Fair. He fears the Chamber of Horrors, which makes him feel sick, but always goes in anyway. [*HB* 11, 13, 28] John builds a shanty hut out of bricks and old doors at a Liverpool bomb site, intending to run away and live there — which he never does. [*HB* 14]

John and other children torment Robert / Roger Huntoon, whom they nickname "Piggy." Huntoon holds a grudge on into adulthood. [*STv2* 66; *Magic*] Cheryl and John, anytime they make oaths to each other, seal the deal with the phrase "Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a needle in my eye." [*HB* 288]

*NOTE*: Huntoon'sfirst name is given as Robert in some stories, and as Roger in Others.

The demon Nergal observes John's early behavior, deems him an insolent child, and decides to teach him a lesson in manners. [*HB* 8] Nergal meets John while posing as another child on a beach. He jokes that John's first name means "100" (bathroom), so John decides to simply call himself Constantine. Nergal convinces him to try his first cigarette, and John steals the whole pack. [*Secret*]

**1963**

At age 10, John has few friends other than Gary, since other kids find him weird. John talks Gaz into taking honey from a wasp nest, claiming Cheryl will let him feel up her skirt if he does. He also convinces Gaz to wipe his rear end with nettles, and to call the school 's headmaster "arse-bandit" to his face. [*Winter* 2] Thomas builds John a slingshot to shoot birds, then mocks his son for failing to hit anything. [*HB* 31]

**In or After 1963**

John becomes an ardent fan of Doctor Who but despises the Beatles' music — which his sister Cheryl adores. [HB7, 31, 169]

**In or Before the Mid-1960s**

John's Aunt Jean teaches him how to perform a séance. [*HB* 213]

**Mid-1960s**

Constantine develops incestuous thoughts regarding Cheryl and watches her change clothes after work. [*HB* 7]

During detention, he memorizes "The Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. [*Books* IV] Bullied by Kenny Nelson, John bribes Kenny's sister Anita to reveal details about their dead mother, Lizzie Seddon, then stages a fake séance to make Kenny think she is accusing him of smothering her with a cushion. Kenny runs into the street and is hit by a truck, resulting in his legs being amputated. John realizes he has a gift for lying. [*HB* 213]

**1966**

At age 13, John befriends Katie Morgan, whom he walks home on Guy Fawkes Night after a bonfire reminds her of her father's death. The two date until a disapproving teacher, Mr. Watson, threatens to have John thrown into a borstal unless he keeps his distance. John thus ignores her and they never speak again. [*Mystery* Annual 2]

**Between 1966 and 1981**

John collects Silver Surfer comics. [*Sandman* 3]

*NOTE*: The Silver Surfer, a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, debuted in Fantastic Four #48, published in 1966. John has a collection of them in 1981.

#### 1967-1969

**Late 1960s**

John develops a crush on schoolmate Karen Laing and often stares at her breasts. He receives multiple detentions from a teacher named Brownlee. [*HB* 51] While growing up in Liverpool, John spends a lot of time with Tim "Timmy" McCabe, whose sister Dora becomes his occasional sex partner. [*HB* Annual 2011]

**In or Before 1967**

By age 14, John develops strong resentment and fear regarding his father, who frequently gets drunk and threatens to beat him. [*HB* 100] He befriends schoolmate Jerry Monaghan, a masochist drawn to the occult. [*HB* 51]

**1967**

John's anger erupts after Thomas berates him for not finishing an essay. He asks his father for help, but Thomas slaps his face, causing John to strike back and threaten to kill him. [*HB* 100] When his high school class creates time capsules, John uses magic to hide his own innocence, vulnerability, and childhood naiveté in a house-shaped locket, then buries it in the capsule. [*HB/Books*] John avidly pursues the "Hidden World" of magic and the occult, purely for laughs and sex. [*HB* 9, 31; *War Lord*]

**Summer 1967**

During the "Summer of Love," John is expelled for organizing an "Out demons out" chant during assembly. Thomas burns his son's magic books, but John rescues an article about practical magic, then shoots a cat, curses it with slow death, and binds his dad's spirit to the animal, causing his father to grow old and weak. Terrified that Thomas will die, John preserves the cat in formaldehyde and buries it near his mother's grave. His father thus spends his later years feeble and sickly. [*HB* 31]

**Late 1967**

Constantine convinces John Lennon to change the title of the Beatles' next song to something "far out," and suggests "l Am the Walrus." [*Love*]

*NOTE*: This may be a fabrication on John's part, particularly given that he hates the band's music.

**1968**

At age 15, after fighting with his father, John receives an unsigned letter with a photo of Suicide Bridge, causing him to consider killing himself. Tim McCabe looks at the picture and becomes suicidal. John lets Tim keep the photo, and he jumps to his death. [*HB* Annual 2011]

John works as a newsboy, selling papers in the street. [*Love*] He befriends a music producer named Rick, exorcises a noisy spirit preventing Suzi Quatro from recording her second single, and makes out with the singer. [*HB* 285]

**In or Before 1969**

John reads a book about Roderick Burgess (the Magus) describing the man's "freaky" rituals. He longs to obtain a tarot deck made by the occultist. [*Love*]

**1969**

When John is 16 years old, the rift between him and his father grows quite deep. [HB 28] He and Chas Chandler become friends. [*HB* 84; *Subterranean*]

**Summer 1969**

Gary Lester rents a London fiat and invites Constantine to live with him. John promises to join him before Christmas if he can raise the cash. [*HB* Special #1] John runs away from home and rents a room on Notting Hill 's Portobello Road. He spends a lot of time with his housemates, occultist Nancy "Estella" Weston (who teaches him how to read tarot cards), yoga practitioner Ravi, and ballet student Pamela, then befriends a fellow run-away, 14-year-old Oliver, and arranges for him to live with them. [*Love*]

**August 1969**

John and his housemates attend a free concert in Hyde Park, as well as a festival at the Wych Cross home of Alex Burgess — Fawney Rig, Johanna Constantine's former estate — where they witness magic and tantric sex demonstrations. [*Love*]

**September 1969**

Two UCLA dropouts, Alice and Lynn, pick up Constantine in their van. He convinces them he's Paul McCartney's cousin, which leads to a ménage trois. The trio get high together and he promises them an autograph. [*HB* Special]

**October 1969**

Father Phillip Tolly gives Constantine a ride and pressures him into oral sex. As Tolly bends toward the teen's crotch, however, John slams him in the head, causing the priest — who'd hidden a razor blade in his mouth, intending to castrate John — to cut up his own face. [*HB* Special]

**1969 or 1970**

Police spot Constantine and return the runaway to his family. [*Love*]

**1969 to 1989**

John and his father refuse to speak to each other for 20 years, though John occasionally sends Thomas money out of guilt. [*HB* 28]

### 1970s

**1960s or 1970s**

During a Vietnam protest at London's Grosvenor Square, Constantine hypnotizes Chief Inspector "Basher" Babbadge to smoke marijuana in front of the American Embassy, resulting in the officer's forced resignation. [*HB* 1]

#### 1970-1974

**In or Before 1970**

John befriends a fellow magic user named Paul, who is heavily into voodoo, amphetamines, and breaking and entering. [*9-11*]

**1970**

John and friend Dave Coombs ingest hallucinogenic mushrooms, causing Dave to chase John with an onion. [*HB* 89] He moves to London at age 17 and rents a room in Chas Chandler's home, where Chas lives with his mother Queenie, a bedridden witch, and her vile chimpanzee familiar, Slag. John helps Chas kill the ape, causing Queenie to die as well. He then lives with Chas for a year, leveraging the incident to gain favors for decades. [*HB* 44, 84] John's smoking habit reaches 30 cigarettes a day. [*HB* 43]

**In or After 1970**

John and Chas find the latter's Uncle Dave conversing with a garden gnome, a hat rack, and other items. Constantine decides the house must be haunted, until Chas realizes his uncle is a ventriloquist. [*HB* 120]

Constantine works at a Mafia-run casino, befriends magician Archie Fein, and has an affair with a possibly underage woman named Kim. He magically convinces winners they've lost, then pockets their earnings. Casino owner Ronnie Watson orders him beaten, but John utters magic words that leave the mobsters dead or insane. [*HB* 120]

*NOTE*: The casino story may be a fabrication on Archie's part.

**Between 1970 and 1978**

A man named Wong teaches Constantine about the I Ching, an ancient Chinese divination text. [*HB* 102]

**1970s**

John experiments with LSD and has colorful hallucinations. [*HB* 89] He discovers communal living in a Brixton squat filled with rotten carpets and boarded windows, and the situation ends in tears. [*HB* 14]

**1972**

John gets heavily into magic after a friend plays up its positives, then asks Brendan Finn to help him research occultists in his family tree. Brendan learns about Harry Constantine, who was buried alive after being cursed with immortality. John partially digs up his ancestor to chat, then reburies him. [*HB* 243]

*NOTE*: HB 75 John met Brendan while in Mucous Membrane, but the band didn't exist in 1972.

Constantine becomes a ritualistic magician and learns how to access the disciplines of communication and control, as well as reach across the mana stream to contact potent otherworldy and extraterrestrial entities. [*Magic*] At age 19, John steals Piggy Huntoon's girlfriend Diane and gets her caught up in magic and sexual depravity. [*STv2* 66]

**Before January 1973**

Looking to fund free rock festivals, Constantine hustles bookies by wagering on the date on which U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson will suffer a fatal heart attack — which he accurately predicts. [*HB* 1]

**1973**

Pulled back in time from 1979 by William Matthieson, John ends up at Hotel Shade and meets Rac Shade, Kathy George, and Lenny Shapiro. As madness wracks Shade's mind, the four bounce around history until arriving in 1692. [*Shade* 42-44]

**Mid-1970s**

John briefly attends college and dates Zatanna Zatara while studying occult practices. The two join a tantric studies group in San Francisco. Her father, sorcerer Giovanni "John" Zatara, does not approve. John teaches Zatanna how to lock her house via a protection spell. [*STv2* 49; *Origins* 27; *Magic*; Everyday; *Who* 3]

**Early 1970s**

Constantine has sex a few times with a rotund woman named Renee, who fancies his friend Chas and soon begins dating him instead. Renee grows to dislike John intensely, whom she considers scary and a bad influence on Chas. [*HB* 84]

#### 1975-1977

**1975**

John befriends Bill Greenwood, an irascible older man, while frequenting the King's Head bar. John deems Bill's wife Nellie a national treasure. [*HB* 106]

**Late 1975**

Snobby magician Sir Norman invites John to join a magic lodge, which orders him to defile a Christian crucifix. For six months he works to impress the "wine bar wankers," and even meets a well-dressed werewolf. John earns a reputation as a middle-class black-arts master, quickly rises through the ranks, and is predicted to become grandmaster by age 25. When the lodge orders him to sever his past by killing Chas, however, the mage refuses and is expelled. [*STv2* 169; *HB* 109]

**1975 to 1995**

John frequents the King's Head bar on and off for 20 years, often stopping by Bill and Nellie Greenwood's house for tea. [*HB* 106]

**1976**

John witnesses a senior Freemason having sex with a corpse in a graveyard. He photographs the incident, then uses the pictures as leverage to obtain information about the fraternity. [*HB* 54]

**September 20, 1976**

John attends a Sex Pistols concert at London's 100 Club. Ten minutes later he cuts off his hippie locks and adopts a punk rock haircut. [*Love*]

**In or Before 1977**

Cheryl Constantine marries Tony Masters after becoming pregnant with their daughter Gemma. [*HB* 7]

**1977**

John grows fascinated with summoning demons after arcana expert Benjamin "Ben" Cox obtains a copy of the dark-arts book Grimorium Verum. He spends months assembling the items required for a ritual, just in case. [*HB* 11] Gemma Masters is born. [*HB* 4]

**Summer 1977**

Constantine forms punk rock band Mucous Membrane, with John providing lead vocals. Members include Gary "Gaz" Lester on guitar, Benjamin "Beano" Digby on drums, and a revolving cast of bassists, including Stu and Les. [*HB* 1, 77, 153, 162, 245; *Marquee*]

*NOTE*: Mucous Membrane has typically been drawn with four members, but five bandmates have been named: Constantine, Gary Lester, Beano, Les, and Stu. Les could be short for Lester, or he could be one of the WHO'S WHO IN THE DC UNIVERSE issue # 15 claims the band accompanied John to Newcastle in 1978, but Other than Gary, the two groups are entirely separate.

**Fall 1977**

Mucous Membrane debuts at Newcastle's Casanova Club. During a rendition of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode," the crowd grows abusive and John ends the show. Club owner Alex Logue invites the band to party with his friends, but John declines after noticing Logue inappropriately touching his daughter Astra. [*HB* 11, 245-246]

**Between Fall 1977 and 1978**

Constantine writes the song "Lies of My Own, " which Mucous Membrane releases as a 45 single. He gets drunk with Sid Vicious one night, and they bring two women back to his flat; Sid passes out, leaving both women for John. [*Subterranean*] Chas works as a roadie at nearly all of the band 's performances, but John fails to pay him, and Chas never admits he thinks the group sounds awful. [*HB* 77, Annual l] Mucous Membrane often performs Marvin Gaye's "l Heard It Through the Grapevine," which Constantine considers his theme song. [*Sandman* 3]

*NOTE*: Oddly, Chas doesn't know Gary in HB l, despite Gaz having been in the band. John befriends Patrick McDonell, a.k.a Destructo Vermin Gobsmack of the Hopeless Heroins. [*HB* Annual l; *Pandemonium*] He finds fellow punk Angie White annoying despite their shared interest in the occult. [*HB* 162]

John becomes close with Brendan Finn while the latter manages a band called the Squitters. [*HB* 75, 295] At sex Pistols concert in Camden, they create the illusion of a haunted amplifier, then convince band manager Malcolm McLaren to let them perform an exorcism. [*HB* 42]

Punk rocker Sadie takes a liking to Constantine, but drives into a tree before they can hook up. [*HB* 99] At a Mucous Membrane performance, John meets Rose, a spelling bee semifinalist from Doglick, West Virginia, who sticks a pin in his abdomen when he asks her to spell "fellatio." The two have sex, but his inability to commit drives her to marry Dickie Fermin. EMI Records executives attend the band's next gig. [*HB* 153-155]

**Late 1977**

Constantine joins a group of master mages, including Clarice Sackville and Gordon Alfred Haine. Though decades his elder, Clarice performs oral sex on John in Highgate Cemetery. [*HB* 134, 137, Annual 2011]

#### 1978

**In or Before 1978**

Constantine befriends Ray Monde, an older gay man. Their relationship remains platonic, despite John being bisexual, since Ray has a lover. John dates a woman named Judith while studying tantric yoga at the Borth Beach Ashram, and befriends American ex-soldier Frank North. [*HB* 7, II] While visiting South America, John learns how to cast a holding spell to subdue a man possessed by wild demons. [*Shade* 42] He comes to fear the Arab, a pointy-toothed savage who eats live animals and can appear in two places at once. [*HB* 163]

**January 1978**

Mucous Membrane attends a performance by the Clash at London's Roxy Club. Two music executives, Les and Maurice, seek bands to sign for their label. They approach Constantine, who rushes home to write songs. Mucous Membrane performs in Aylesbury, where producer KGB signs the group for a record deal, then at the Marquee Club, on London's Wardour Street, where John senses two werewolves in backup band The Uninvited. [*Marquee*]

**1978**

Thomas Constantine travels to London to check on his son, but John slams the door in his face. [*HB* 100] Mucous Membrane books gigs at the Electric Banana, where John meets Richard "Rich the Punk" Eldridge, the lead singer of Fatal Gift. After Rich borrows his instruments, John fights him to get them back, and they become mates. Rich dubs him "Johnny Con-job" and introduces him to his friend Muppet. [*HB* 91; *Secret*]

John meets Robert William "Straff" Strathern and his mother Betty — both epileptics. On weekends, John, Straff, Muppet, and Rich frequent a Romford chip shop, where Muppet picks fights with football hooligans. [*HB* 98]

During a Mucous Membrane performance at Dingwalls, every woman in the crowd longs to take John home. [*HB* 245-246]

**Before Early 1978**

Constantine balks at how magic users like the Phantom Stranger, Baron Winters, Doctor Fate, and Jason Blood become lost in the part. [*HB* 50] He meets Belfast con man Francie Fallis, who sells replica guns to the Provos, and dates Karen, who develops an unhealthy fascination with "whore magick." [HB 75] Constantine sets up a scam operation with fake psychic Neville Sharp, who pretends to be a reverend able to speak to the deceased. John dons a dress during one performance. [*HB* 120]

John has several girlfriends and occasional boyfriends, but few of his loves last. [*HB* 51]

He convinces Sharon Grant that he has his own coven, then has sex with her at the Fifth Form Disco when she asks to join. [*HB* 7 2]

He befriends Header, a violent Scotsman; Header's friend Terry Butcher; Mange, a grumpy magician trapped in a rabbit's body; [*HB* 63] and drug dealer Jehosaphat P. "Jerry the Dealer" O'Flynn, who becomes like a brother to him. [*HB* 24] Brendan and John guest-write News of the World's horoscope column and make up ludicrous predictions filled with rectal puns. [*HB* 75]

**Early 1978**

"Venus of the Hardsell," a hit single from Mucous Membrane, is published by 'Snot Music. Dean Motter records a musc video for the song filled with violent imagery. nual 1] NME magazine interviews Constantine and the band. [*HB* 62] John and Jerry get into trouble with police for walking along the side rail of a bridge while intoxicated. [*HB* 24] John grows marijuana in a window box. [*HB* 48]

Constantine returns to Newcastle's Casanova Club with Gary Lester, Ben Cox, Judith, Frank North, psychic nun Anne-Marie, and quantum-magic pioneer Ritchie Simpson. They find a basement filled with corpses shredded by the Norfulthing. John tries to summon the demon Sagatana to fight the terror elemental, but accidentally conjures Nergal, who takes Astra to Hell, leaving John holding her severed arm. John suffers a breakdown and is committed to the Ravenscar Secure Facility for the Dangerously Deranged. Many, including the Phantom Stranger, erroneously hear that he died during the incident. [*HB* 11; *STv2* 46; *Sandman* 3; Who 15]

**Early 1978 to Early 1980**

John spends two years at Ravenscar under the treatment of Dr. Huntoon (whom he'd bullied as a child) and administrator Dalton-Brewer. Cheryl never visits, though Clarice Sackville does. [*HB* 7, 102, 202] Medication prevents John from dreaming for months, [*HB* 7] and he coerces Huntoon to wipe his ass. [*STv2* 66] John befriends a psychic patient named Una who hears voices in her head. [*HB* 25]

Mistreated by Huntoon, Constantine is subjected to electroshock therapy to eliminate delusions of demons. Guards break his fingers and knock out his teeth. [*HB* 8, 50, 114] John cuts himself and draws magic sigils on the walls, terrified that something will get in to kill him. Interns move him to a padded cell and fit him With a straitjacket, but he creates more wards from his own blood. Unable to sleep, he hallucinates. [*HB* 233]

**Before July 6, 1978**

Constantine temporarily leaves Ravenscar, reunites with Mucous Membrane, and resumes his typical lifestyle. [*HB* 91, 162-163, 271]

*NOTE*: John is depicted as having adventures as a free man during this period of his Ravenscar stay.

**After July 6, 1978**

American industrialist Stanley "SW." Manor hires Constantine to find a clock once owned by Grigori Rasputin, capable of foretelling the future. John scams him with a fake clock and a staged murder scene. [*HB* 162-163, 173-174]

*NOTE*: Manor serves as an evil analogue to bruce Wayne. His name references "Stately Wayne Manor" from the 1960s Batman TV series, his butler Fredo is a stand-in for Alfred Pennyworth, and his lavish lifestyle masks a darker side and a desire for geance. Manor keeps vampire bats in an underground game room and briefly has a young ward named Tim. Given Constantine's leering grin throughout Brian Azzarello's HELLBLAZER run and the fact that Manor views John as his archnemesis, the mage becomes his metaphorical Joker.

**August 6, 1978**

Mucous Membrane performs at the Hope and Anchor. [*HB* 271]

**Late 1978**

John, Rich the Punk, and their friend Deanie ride bikes to see the Plasmatics at Stratford Poly. Deanie vanishes and is transported to the year 1642. [*HB* 91]

**Between 1978 and Early 1979**

Constantine returns to Ravenscar but fails to respond to treatment. Dalton-Brewer electrocutes his testicles as punishment and tries to draw out John's madness by channeling the Golden Boy's power. This forms an "insanity-thing" that leeches off John for years, causing him to make bad decisions. [*HB* 102, 233, 249]

**Between 1978 and 1982**

John reads Dr. Terrence "Terry" Thirteen's book debunking the occult. [*Books* II]

#### 1979

**Early 1979**

Constantine temporarily leaves Ravenscar again, then struts along Carnaby Street in punk regalia, telling the old "swinging London" types to sod off. [*War Lord*] He dates self-harming drama student Mandy, then breaks up with her two hours before one of her performances. [*HB* 142]

*NOTE*: Once again, John is shown having adventures during his Ra venscar stay, Implying another departurefrom the hospital.

**May 4, 1979**

John checks himselfout of Ravenscar yet again so he can vote against Margaret Thatcher, but is swept back in time by Rac Shade, first to 1973 and then to 1692. Upon returning to the present, he has a premonition of Thatcher's government damaging England and tries to jump from the Camden High Street road bridge. Faeces McCartney, of punk band No Future, stops him from killing himself, and the two become friends. John then returns to the asylum. [*HB* 266; *Shade* 42-44]

**Mid- to Late 1979**

Constantine escapes from Ravenscar. While he's out, he and Faeces get their bands together for several gigs in Camden, attend warehouse parties in Fulham, and share a bondage girl in Bromley. [*HB* 266, 274]

**July 1979**

Constantine casts a spell to create a living woman, which fails. Reggae singer Malcolm Campbell asks John to put him in touch with his roots, so John arranges for an old African demon to possess him — which refuses to leave. He has sex with Epiphany "Piffy" Greaves, his future wife, after she travels back in time. [*HB* 271-272]

**August 13, 1979**

Mucous Membrane and No Future perform at the Hope and Anchor, located in Camden. [*HB* 265]

**In or After August 1979**

Cheryl asks John to let her and Gemma stay with him when Tony begins acting oddly, but he turns them away. Older John arrives from the future to retrieve Epiphany and punches his younger self in the face. A physician brings young John back to Ravenscar. [*HB* 273-274] His fascination with magic outweighs his interest in punk music, and he disbands his group to pursue the occult. [*HB* 162; *Magic*]

**Late 1970s**

A thug named Victor nearly kills Constantine for hinting that he'd molested Jenny Singleton. Mictlantecutli, the Aztec god of death, kills everyone in the room except for John and Chas. [*Engines*]

### 1980s

**1970s or 1980s**

Constantine has sex with Chas' cousin Norma. [*HB* 214]

**In or Before the 1980s**

Constantine, Doctor Fate and the Phantom Stranger all join the Magi Guild. [*STv2* 137]

#### 1980-1982

**Early 1980**

John is deemed cured and released from Ravenscar, though his friends' ghosts haunt him thereafter. [*HB* 7, Annual l] He hires Patrick McDonell to promote a Mucous Membrane music video, but McDonell fails to share the profits. John considers burning his house down. [*HB* 33] Brendan invites John to meet his girlfriend, Kit Ryan. Kit and Brendan marry, though John secretly loves her as well. [*FIB* 42, 70, 75]

**After Early 1980**

John spends a month working for an undertaker and finds the smells of flesh and formaldehyde disturbing. [*Sandman* 3] He reads The Old Straight Track and books by John Michel, and dates a geomancer, [*HB* 14] as well as acupuncturist Nancy Ming, who gleans information by reading his body's electromagnetism. On one occasion, Nancy "accidentally" hits the wrong nerve, causing pain. [*STv2* 89] For three weeks he seeks to leam about Baron Winters' past, but turns up nothing. [*Books* II]

**Late 1980**

Constantine suffers a mental relapse within six months of his release from Ravenscar and is readmitted to the asylum. [*HB* Annual l]

**1980 or 1981**

John lives in an East Croydon high-rise with his junkie girlfriend Rachel. [*Sandman* 3]

NOTE : It's unclear when this occurs in relation to John's various Ravenscar stays. **1980 to 1982**

John is released from Ravenscar but is re-admitted three more times due to other relapses. Each time, he contemplates suicide at a mountain cliff. [*HB* Annual l]

**1980 to 1983**

Kit Ryan and Brendan Finn become Constantine's closest friends, offering refuge whenever John can't handle life. During summers he smokes opium and drinks whiskey with the couple on the edge of the Dublin Mountains. [*HB* 42, 46, 50]

**1980 to 1988**

Ritchie Simpson sometimes hacks into electronic reality for John, placing his consciousness in computers to track down information. [*HB* 7]

**1981**

At a San Francisco garage sale, John buys a sand pouch, unaware it belongs to Dream of the Endless. He spends six months in Alaska handling the "Lupus affair," during which he consults with Jason Blood. While he's gone, Rachel steals the pouch, along with John's stereo, television, and Silver Surfer comics, and sells them all for drug money. [*Sandman* 2-3; *Books* II]

*NOTE*: The nature of the Lupus affair is unspecified.

**In or Before October 1981**

John returns to Ravenscar yet again. [*HB* Annual l]

**October 1981**

John is released from the asylum, vowing never to return. Doctors give him medication to deal with anger and recommend journaling. [*HB* 102, Annual l]

*NOTE*: This occurs six months before the British navy leaves Portsmouthfor the Falkland Islands in April 1982. It is said to be hisfourth release, but evidence in Other comics indicates the number is higher.

**Between 1981 and 1983**

John and Brendan obtain compromising Polaroid photos of House of Lords member Sir Peter Marston, with which they blackmail him. [*HB* 52]

**Between 1981 and 1984**

Constantine lives in a fiat in Notting Hill. [*Sandman* 3]

**Early 1982**

Constantine and an acquaintance, Kipling, pull a con in Bangkok, angering several lapsed martyrs. [*HB* 51] He befriends Reverend Richard "Rick the Vic" Nilsen, who has a penchant for sacrilege and obtains taboo items for him. [*HB* 130; *Secret*]

*NOTE*: Kipling may refer to Knights Templar member Willoughby Kipling, a Constantine-like character whom Grant Morrison introduced in DOOM PATROL.

John finds Patrick McDonell selling "Nuke Buenos Aires" sweatshirts. Once again, his friend fails to pay him royalties from the old Mucous Membrane video. [*HB* 33] John goes on a drinking binge, has sex with a mysterious woman, and dreams of his evil ancestor Kon-sten-tyn. [*HB* Annual I] Unable to put Newcastle behind him, he has himself committed to Ravenscar one final time. [*HB* 130]

**June 1982**

Gangsters Harry and Norman Cooper arrange for John to be released from the asylum against his will, and force him to bring Harry's five-year-old son Ronnie back from the dead. With help from Brendan, Rick, and Header, John performs a summoning. After inadvertently conjuring Sid Vicious, they bind a fuckpig (an incubus representing rape) demon to Ronnie's body, which takes over the mob and remains childlike in appearance. John begs to be let back into Ravenscar, but the staff refuses and he considers suicide. [*HB* 129-133]

**Mid- or Late 1982**

John pulls a con in Scunthorpe with grifters Neville Sharp, Boz, and Tony. Sharp acts as a faith healer, while John poses as paraplegic Falklands War hero Harry Tyler, but an actual man by that name is in the audience — whom Sharp somehow heals despite being a fraud. [*HB* 120]

**After 1982**

John realizes the Norfulthing, as an elemental, cannot truly be destroyed. He thus returns to Newcastle and makes a deal: if the creature stays out of trouble, he'll allow it to feast once a year on someone who deserves it. [*HB* 246]

#### 1983-1985

**In or Before 1983**

Constantine begins dating Emma, an American artist, who squeezes his hand supportively whenever he has flashbacks to Newcastle. She playfully sketches him, labeling the drawing "Bastard." [*HB* 142] John introduces her to Kit and Cheryl, who like her, but Emma's father warns his daughter to leave him. [*STv2* 37; *HB* 62]

**1983**

Ex-bandmate Benjamin "Beano" Digby becomes strung out on heroin. John finds that Beano's fiat is haunted by Victorian-era ghosts, then dies during a spell gone awry. He returns during his own funeral, never revealing how he escaped from Hell. [*HB* 77]

Tommy Cox introduces John to New York City lowlife Zeerke, who offers him the Ace of Winchesters for halfa million dollars. After Zeerke doubles the price, John steals the demon-killing rifle with help from Brendan, Rick the Vic, and Jerry the Dealer, then hides it at the home of Scurve the Elephant Handler. John and Brendan cheat on Emma and Kit with two young women in New York. [*HB* 72, 76; Hitman 16] Constantine soon loses touch with Kit and Brendan. [*HB* 42]

Gary gives John chalk containing virgin blood, useful for summoning demons. [*HB* 44]

Constantine works with fellow magician Chant and police detective Roger Bentham to solve the murder of his friend Carl in Scotland. They discover starving vampire-succubus hybrid children living on Gruinard Island and cast a binding spell to prevent them from reaching the mainland. [*HB* 187-188]

**October 1983 to Autumn 1985**

John discovers that the Brujeria, a male witch cult, plans to awaken a great evil in the aftermath of an impending crisis on infinite Earths. With help from Ben Cox, Frank North, Anne-Marie, and Judith, he spends two years preparing to stop them and plotting how to elicit Swamp Thing's help. [*STv2* 49]

**November 26, 1983**

Robbers break into the Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow International Trading Estate in the so-called "crime of the century." John Constantine is among the suspects. [*HB* 107]

**1980s**

Chas' daughter Geraldine grows up calling Constantine "Uncle John," but sees him infrequently, since her mother Renee dislikes him. [*HB* 84] The mage befriends mobster John "Pearly" Grey, [*HB* 1, 230-231] as well as magic user and prognosticator Lenny. In Nigeria, John manipulates Lenny into summoning two demons. Lenny loses his mind, withdraws from society, and begs for money on the streets. [*HB* 122]

Gemma Masters sometimes pretends to be scared of monsters so her Uncle John will comfort her. He tells her not to worry — and to remember, ifever she encounters a monster, not to let It scare her, since she's a Constantine. [*HB* 280] John begins wearing white gloves as a fashion statement. [*HB* 230-231]

**Early 1980s to 1990s**

Gemma secretly enjoys smelling John's trenchcoat whenever he visits her family, despite its tobacco stench. [*HB* 279]

**Mid-1980s**

Constantine forms a low opinion of Dr. Lawrence Polygon, whose slipshod research causes a woman's death when the mystic taps into repressed psychic powers, causing her to combust. [*STv2* 128, 137] John saves Bartholomew "Binky" Carter-Browne, Britain 's future parliamentary undersecretary, after a Haitian envoy's daughter turns into a crocodile. [*HB* 21] He works on a student-union haunting with psychic journalist Nigel Archer / Engels, but the ghost turns out to be non-menacing, so John tells it to piss off instead of bothering with an exorcism. [*HB* 53, 63; *secret*]

*NOTE*: Nigel's sumarne changesfrorn Archer to Engelsfrom one story to the next.

**Late Summer 1984**

Prior to his first contact with Swamp Thing, John observes Abby Arcane-Cable from afar. [*STv2* 25]

**In or Before December 1984**

Constantine obtains the files of Dr. Hindley, of the Whitechapel Hospital for the Criminally Insane, proving she treated patients with thalidomide for two years after the drug was banned. He then blackmails the physician for years. [*HB* 60] John rents a fiat in Paddington from Brenda McGuire, above the apartment of a Rastafarian known as Mighty Mouse. [*HB* 1, 44, 245]

**December 1984**

The succubus Chantinelle (Ellie) and her angel lover Tali seek John's help after she becomes pregnant. He hides them from Heaven and Hell using pentangles, and smears his own blood into the sigil mix in case the demon ever becomes a danger to him. Ellie owes him a debt of gratitude thereafter. [*HB* 60, 104]

**In or Before 1985**

Constantine and his friend Seth meet two women, Barbara and Martha, at a pub. Seth challenges John to see who can bed Martha first. [*Jam*] John finally meets Baron Winters, but the two fail to get along — though each respects the other's skills. He does a prison stint and shares a cell With a man arrested for raping and torturing old women. [*HB* 49]

**1985**

Constantine extorts money from the Cooper crime family to pay Brendan, Rick, and Header for binding the fuckpig to Ronnie Cooper. [*HB* 133] In an alternate reality, Jacqueline "Jackie" Constantine is born on a magic-free world created by Tim Hunter. [*Wartime* 13]

**Summer 1985**

With the Primordial Shadow intent on destroying the world, Constantine teaches Swamp Thing about his true nature so the elemental can prevent the apocalypse. John guides Swamp Thing in defeating the Brujeria, introduces him to the Parliament of Trees, and awakens extraordinary powers in his friend Steve Dayton (the Doom Patrol 's Mento) for the battle ahead. He and Dayton hold a séance with Baron Winters, Doctor Fate, Doctor Occult, Sargon the Sorcerer, and Zatanna. The crisis is averted, but John's friends Judith, Anne-Marie, Frank North, and Ben Cox, as well as Dayton, Sargon, Fate, and John's girlfriend Emma, all perish. [*STv2* 37-50; Crisis 4; *Titans* 22]

**October 1985**

John returns to England to find that in his absence, his electricity was shut off and a chicken in his fridge evolved into something unspeakable. [*HB* 234]

*NOTE*: Neil Gaiman penned a script with this premise, titled "The Day My Pad Went Mad, " after asking Alan Moore's help in writing a comic book. The story has never been published, though Gaiman described it in his book Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days. Writer Andy Diggle referenced the incident in HB 234.

**Winter 1985**

John has an affair with his friend Seth's girlfriend Annette, who studies his magic books, summons the Third of the Fallen, and arranges for Seth's torture. Unable to save his friends, John flees the scene, abandoning them to damnation. [*Jam*]

**In or Before December 1985**

Choicest Cut bassist Suzuki Skreem seeks John's help after being impregnated by a demon. [*HB* 1]

**December 1985**

After seeing John in action at Bethlehem Slouch's end-of-year bash, journalist Satchmo Hawkins decides to interview him for his "Faces on the Street" column inXS Magazine. [*HB* 1]

**Before 1986**

Constantine performs a Persian binding spell against a demon. [*HB* 281]

#### 1986-1989

**1986**

Constantine and the Phantom Stranger attend a Gotham City memorial for Swamp Thing after the elemental is presumed dead. [HB 55] John reads *Pow! Psychology: Understanding the Super-Men (and Women)*, written by his old enemy Huntoon, and agrees with the author's warnings about superhumans. [*HB* 66] He wins $50,000 at Midnite's, a front business for Papa Midnite's illegal gambling den, [*HB* 1] and has a relationship with 12-year-old Katrina Bogdonovich before her first menstruation. [*HB* 157]

*NOTE*: The nature of Constantine's relationship with Katrina is unclear, but it is implied to be sexual. This seems out of character for John, considering his reaction to Astra Logue's molestation

**April 1986**

Elliana, a Leshy fairy, uses a dark magic tome to unleash M 'Nagalah the Eternal. Mister E brings Constantine, Doctor Occult, the Phantom Stranger, and John's ancestor Pyotr Konstantin back to 1648 to deal with the problem. [*Trenchcoat*]

**In or Before November 1986**

John ends his friendship with Gary Lester following a fight in Geordieland. While writing about the mage for XS, Satchmo Hawkins interviews the Guardians of Youth, the Archbishop of York, unconvicted Manson Family member Ted "Gold" Digger, gangster John "Pearly" Grey, and John's father Thomas. [*HB* 1]

**November 1986**

John and Papa Midnite trap hunger demon Mnemoth inside Gary's body. John thus misses a meeting with Hawkins, who is beaten up by the Dodkins Brothers while waiting for him to arrive. As an apology, John sends Hawkins a 45 RPM recording of "Venus of the Hardsell." [*HB* 1-2, 4]

**Between 1986 and 1993**

John has a falling-out with the Phantom Stranger. [*Books* I]

**In or Before 1987**

Constantine buys Gemma a wooden crocodile in Senegal, [*HB* 4] teaches her how to make nightmares go away, [HB 31] has sex with the Teen Titans' Donna Troy (Wonder Girl), [*STv2* 66] befriends Gavin "Gav the Wank" Pomeroy (who resents John for being a better conjuror), [*HB* 121] and develops contacts on all seven continents. [*Update* 3]

**1987**

While investigating yuppie deaths, Constantine thwarts an attempt by the demon Blathoxi, Lord of Flatulence, to corner the British soul market. [*HB* 3] John saves Gemma from a child molester looking to make her a corpse bride, starts dating magic-wielding artist Zed, [*HB* 4-8] and becomes romantically involved with a woman named Tess after dancing with her for hours at a Soho club. [*HB* 142]

*NOTE*: Blathoxi returns in HB 287, but his name is misspelled "Blathloxi. " John is already dating Zed when he meets Tess, implying unfaithfulness. It won't be his last indiscretion.

Swamp Thing resigns as Earth's champion, and John takes it upon himself to identify a successor and facilitate the transition. He visits Arkham Asylum, gives Jason Woodrue an elemental tuber to commune with the Parliament of Trees, and exposes the Parliament's plan to kill and replace Alec Holland. [*STv2* 65-67; *origins* 23]

**1987 to 1997**

Constantine meets a friend at a pub every month for 10 years to share his latest exploits. [*HB* 120]

*NOTE*: John's monthly meetings with this unnamedfriend represent the fans who devoured each new issue as it hit stands during the comic's first decade. Though a fitting anniversary tribute, it is difficult to reconcile with that decade's events, during which he traveled with hippies, nearly died of cancer, moved around a lot, made frequent tnps abroad, hid out from a serial killer, ended up in Hell, spent an extended span of time homeless, and soforth. **Late 1980s**

Dr. Lawrence Polygon applies to the Magi Guild, but John Constantine, Doctor Fate, and the Phantom Stranger all vote him down. [*STv2* 137]

**In or Before 1988**

Constantine befriends occultist Aleister Crowley, whom he calls 'Ally." [*HB* 96, 107] He attends dream-training classes [*HB* 10] and dates a Sioux Indian named Brenda, from the Metropolis Coroner's Office, who predicts the future by reading corpse entrails. [*HB* 70, 73] John learns dark secrets about a Fleet Street reporter, Tony, and uses them as leverage. [*HB* 6] He has business dealings with entrepreneur Funky Flashman, who nicknames him "Johnny Boy." [*STv2* 76]

*NOTE*: Crowley died in 1947 in the real world. In HELLBLAZER continuity, he is immortal. John's affair with Brenda may indicate further cheating on Zed, though it's unclear exactly when they dated.

**1988**

Crowley hides out in Scotland from angry demons. John offers to help, but steps out to buy cigarettes and fails to return, leaving his friend in a magic circle for seven years. [*HB* 95] John dates Keeley, a beauty queen crowned Miss Drugstore. [*HB* 142]

*NOTE*: Once again, John appears to be cheating on Zed.

Following signs from Brenda, lucid-dreaming expert Carl, Ukrainian farmer Staj, acupuncturist Nancy Ming, psychic wino Dogbum, geomancer Freddy, spirit-channeler Jane Day, druid king Blackbriar Thorn, and a savant named Rodney, John determines that Abby Holland will give birth to the next plant elemental. He then works behind the scenes to ensure the circumstances required for the changeover. [*STv2* 70-73]

Constantine thwarts both the Resurrection Crusade (a religious sect hastening the Second Coming) and Nergal 's Damnation Army Critically injured, John reluctantly accepts help from Nergal, who painfully transfuses him with demon blood to cure his wounds, thereby dooming John's soul. [*HB* 4-8]

**May 10, 1988**

Constantine gets drunk on his 35th birthday after dead friends haunt him. He makes love to Zed, knowing his demon blood will ruin the Resurrection Crusaders' plan to use her as the vessel for Christ's return. The Traveller, representing a great magic lodge, tricks John into helping Swamp Thing and Abby conceive a child, and so John offers the use of his human body for impregnation. [*HB* 9-10; *STv2* 74-76, 166]

**In or After May 1988**

With Abby ovulating, Swamp Thing possesses John without warning. As the two make love, the infant elemental 's soul (the Sprout) enters Abby's womb to create a child with elemental, human, and demon characteristics. [*STv2* 76]

*NOTE*: Technically, John's impregnation Of Abby constitutes further cheating on Zed, though he misses out on the experience, since Swamp Thing controls him during copulation.

**December 1988**

Near winter solstice, Constantine ends his relationship with Zed, whom he considers too much to handle. [*HB* 47]

#### 1989

**In or Before 1989**

John amasses a collection of 19th-century Japanese pillow books, [*HB* 18] develops a fondness for punk rock bands Shamen and Big Black, as well as singer Lee "Scratch" Perry, [*HB* 15] investigates a supernatural case in Tibet, [*Sandman* 3] and jumps through a plate-glass window. [*HB* 23]

**Early 1989**

John returns to Louisiana, cons a scam artist out of money, and takes Abby out drinking and dancing after she and Swamp Thing bicker. For Abby's sake, her husband creates for himself a plant-based body modeled after John's. [*STv2* 77-78]

*NOTE*: Both Abby and Constantine know she's pregnant when she gets drunk.

**June 1989**

After alien invaders send Swamp Thing bouncing through time, Constantine summons Ritchie Simpson's disembodied spirit from computerized purgatory and offers to free Ritchie in exchange for information, then reneges on the deal. John tries to help Abby find her missing husband, but she strands him in the bog. [*STv2* 84]

**Summer 1989**

Constantine returns to Newcastle to settle the score with Nergal, and promises to find Ritchie a new body. John's soul lures Nergal to Heaven, where a seraph obliterates the demon, but Constantine becomes temporarily stuck in cyberspace when Ritchie steals his body. John recovers at the Clacton Pier. [*HB* 11-13] Gregori Eilovitch Rasputin, a magic user from Russia, deems John an impertinent bumbler. [*firestorm* 85]

*NOTE*: HB 11-13 must 84 since Ritchie is in cyberspace in that issue. John's presence in STv2 88 places the "Fear Machine" storyline (HB 14-22) before that issue, as there's no break in the him to visit Abby. Thus, HB 11-22 must all occur between STv2 84 and 88.

John is named a suspect in the murders of Mighty Mouse and Brenda McGuire, and a wanted poster dubs him the "Fiend of Paddington." He goes on the run and meets young psychic Mercury, then stays with her magic-wielding hippie friends, the Freedom Mob — of which Zed is a member. John falls in love with Merc's mother Marj and thwarts a plot by the Magi Caecus and Geotroniks Research to harness Earth 's ley lines to broadcast waves of terror and awaken an ancient dragon god, Jallakuntilliokan. [*HB* 14-19]

Dream of the Endless confronts Constantine about his sand pouch, which John's ex-lover Rachel had stolen. They find her living off sand-induced dreams, and Dream eases her suffering — then removes John's Newcastle nightmares. [*Sandman* 2, 3] Rejoining the Freedom Mob, John shares a magical ménage å trois with Marj and Zed to end the Fear Machine threat. He returns to London and spends months plagued by long-buried memories of hs stillborn brother, the Colden Boy. [*HB* 19-22, 34]

John visits Sherwood Forest, in modern Nottingham, and warns Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) to avoid ending up in Hell. [*Arrow* 25]

Sherlock Holmes, the Big Bad Wolf, and other literary characters mistake Jehosaphat O'Flynn for a fictional person and accuse him of violating public-domain law. Despite John's efforts to help Jerry, an entity with an uncanny resemblance to a famous anthropomorphic teddy bear drags him to the catacombs of forgotten lore. [*HB* 23] John loots Jerry's mansion and learns that his friend was assisting serial killer Samuel Morris (the Family Man), whom John inadvertently leads to his next victims. [*HB* 24]

**Summer or Autumn 1989**

Tefé Holland, the daughter of Swamp Thing, Abby Holland, and (by surrogate) John Constantine, is born. [*STv2* 90]

*NOTE*: Abby was impregnated in STv2 76, close to John's birthday in May 1988, so she seems to have carried her baby for more than a year. Human-demon-elemental hybrids must have long gestation periods.

**In or Before Autumn 1989**

John refuses to comment when reporter Steve Jones tries to interview him on the street regarding Gotham City's super-villains. [*Origins* Special l] He travels to Louisiana and Canada to locate the Claw of Aelkhünd (an amber relic able to rescue Swamp Thing from the past), finds it at a Nazi war memorabilia museum in Vienna, and shatters it with a mystic tuning fork, freeing the elemental. [*STv2* 88-90]

**Autumn 1989**

During a festival in Thursdyke, a scientist bombards the town with microwaves, freeing people's fears and desires. Constantine barely escapes death as a military jet destroys the town. [*HB* 25-26] At a party honoring Ray Monde, John meets Anthea, who tries to seduce him into impregnating her so she and her girlfriend can have a child. He hugs a dead homeless man, Jacko, whose restless spirit seeks human compassion before moving on to the afterlife. [*HB* 27]

**In or Before Winter 1989**

John earns a reputation for cheating via magic and is banned by many bookies. He moves into a room above E. Morgan Turf Accountant. [*HB* 28]

**Winter 1989**

The Family Man decides to kill Constantine, the only witness to his crimes. He murders John's father Thomas to get the mage's attention. [*HB* 28]

### 1990s

**Circa 1980s or 1990s**

Constantine runs cons with three brothers from Doglick, West Virginia, all named Richard Fermin — Lucky, Dickie, and Richie — who nickname him 'Conboy." [*HB* 150, 152, 172] John does a few favors for Gabriel, a snobbish angel living on Earth, who never acknowledges being in the mage's debt. [*HB* 43]

#### 1990

**In or Before 1990**

An old German woman tells Constantine that ifsomeone lies in a field, cows will lick that person's feet. [*HB* 30] He befriends Mike, a worker at the Simon House Night Shelter, who mistakes him for a jet-setter. [*HB* 32] John memorizes Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" and develops a fondness for the TV show Ironside. [*HB* 39, 51]

**Early 1990**

When Swamp Thing lapses into a trance after being poisoned by spewing chemicals, Abby seeks Constantine's help in curing him. [*Racing*] The Family Man tracks John down and nearly murders Chas. John avenges his father's death by shooting the serial killer. [*HB* 29-30] Thomas' ghost haunts Gemma until John recalls a spell he'd cast on his father in 1967. He breaks the spell, freeing Thomas' soul — but the man's hatred for his own son condemns him to Hell. [*HB* 31, 42]

Constantine investigates East End murders committed by a junkyard employee, Dougie, to feed a bulldog possessed by W.S. Drummond. He beats the dog to death with a pipe. [*HB* 32]

A month later, Patrick McDoneII urges John to invest in a "total living environment" for writers and artists in Ireland, but after a mystic gives John a vision of a world without communication, he walks away from the deal. [*HB* 33]

**March 1990**

John reads a Torture Club booklet about Satanism, fetal sacrifice, and using teenage girls as broodmares. He visits Amsterdam to buy a designer drug called death, then succumbs to depression as memories of the Golden Boy resurface. On March 31 John is caught in the midst of the poll tax riots at Trafalgar Square. Errol the Bollocks, a friend from the Freedom Mob, pulls him to safety and tells him where to find Marj and Mercury. [*HB* 33]

**April 1990**

John reunites with the two women, and he and Marj pick up where they left off Mercury senses John's instability and enters his mind to spare him his pain, but he experiences a premonition of suicide in 2033 and nearly dies. [*HB* 34, 36]

**Mid-1990**

Swamp Thing seeks John's assistance in rescuing Tefé 's spirit from Hell. He finds the mage studying East Anglican Middle Ages churches containing mages depicting the elemental's time-travel odyssey. [*STv2* 99] Mercury, Marj, and John travel to East Anglia and meet Martin Acland, an abused teen, who ends up living with them as Mercury's lover. [*HB* 37-38]

**Autumn 1990**

Plagued with nightmares of the Golden Boy, John consumes more than 500 psychedelic mushrooms, sending his mind back to the moment of birth. He merges with his brother's soul, but his ego resists the union and the siblings separate. John writes it off as a bad trip, then abandons Marj, who falls for another man. [*HB* 39-40, 249; *War Lord*]

Jerry Monaghan seeks Constantine's help after allowing dozens of demons to possess him. John performs an exorcism, but when Jerry soils himself, the mage leaves in disgust and visits a launderette — which is haunted. [*HB* 51]

*NOTE*: An editors note places HB 51 between issues #40 and #41.

**Autumn 1990 to Winter 2008**

The Golden Boy's spirit schemes to assume control of John's life and fulfill his destiny to save the world. For 28 years he remains hidden inside John's soul, waiting for his brother to become wise and selfless enough to permit their merging, and causing John to repeatedly ruin his own life. [*HB* 249]

**Winter 1990**

Constantine lies low all winter. His life remains uneventful aside from occasional pints with Chas, and he spends Christmas with Cheryl's family. [*HB* 41]

#### 1991

**March 1991**

After John coughs up blood and flesh, a physician tells him he's dying of advanced lung cancer — so he leaves to buy cigarettes. John tours a cancer ward and befriends terminal patient Matt Higgins. He travels to Ireland to see Brendan Finn, whose wine cellar contains a pool of holy water transformed into stout ale. Brendan is dying of liver disease, and the First of the Fallen (the Devil) waits to claim his soul. John tricks the First into drinking the holy ale, then pushes him into the pool. As the First's body dissolves, Brendan's soul moves on to Heaven. The Devil vows revenge. [*HB* 41-42]

*NOTE*: It has been six months since HB 40, three years since John 's demon-blood infusion, and two years since his last run-in with Nergal, setting "Dangerous Habits" in spring 1991. HB 43 occurs on May l, more than a month after John 's diagnosis, so issues #41-42 must occur in March.

**Early 1991**

John meets 19-year-old South London Polytechnic student Isabel Bracknell. Despite his being twice her age, the two have sex near a public playground. They date for six or seven months, then split up and never see each other again. [*HB* 135]

*NOTE*: John dates Helen in mid-1991, per HB 78-79, after which he starts seeing Kit Ryan, so he likely dates Isabel during the first half of the year — apparently while dying of cancer. The "six or seven months" figure is problematic unless John dates multiple women at once.. -which is not unusual for him.

**Mid-April to May l, 1991**

John spends two weeks trying to find Ellie the succubus so she can speak to the First of the Fallen on his behalf. Unable to prevent his damnation, she suggests he consult with the angel Gabriel, who refuses to help. [*HB* 43]

**Before Spring or Summer 1991**

John dates Helen, from Dundee, Scotland, who never drinks alcohol or takes narcotics — until after they break up, at which point she ends up a heroin-addicted prostitute. [*HB* 78-79]

*NOTE*: Helen 's maiden name is unknown, but she later marries a man named Bonaventure, per HB 204.

**Spring or Summer 1991**

On the brink of death, John visits Cheryl and Chas to say good-bye. He sells his soul to the Second and Third of the Fallen, then slits his wrists and waits for the First to claim him. Rather than go to war over his soul, the three Devils grow John a new, cancer-free body. [*HB* 44-45] After a two-day bender, John runs into Kit Ryan. Matt dies of kidney failure, and John, guilt-ridden about being cured, warns Kit to stay away before she gets hurt. Kit hugs him anyway. [*HE* 46]

*NOTE*: Despite having a brand-new body, John somehow continues to benefit from demon blood throughout HELLBLAZERSpub1ication.

**June or July 1991**

On World #612, millionaire playboy John Constantine becomes a superhero, the Hellblazer, and forms the Mighty Mystics with Dr. Thirteen, Mister E, and the Phantom Stranger. He adopts Tim Hunter and trains the orphan as Sparky, the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Together, they defeat such villains as Mr. Fog, the Beefeater, Johnny O'Groats, the Crossword Puzzler, the Phantom Phantom, and the Court Jester. Upon learning that Tim is of French descent, however, John disbands their partnership, and Tim strikes out on his own as Hellspawn. [*Books* Annual 3]

*NOTE*: The alternate Constantine and Hunter serve as a satirical analogue to Batman and Robin.

**Summer 1991**

John spends a month consumed with survivor's guilt, then begins dating Kit Ryan. Gangsters murder Laura Collins, the manager of the Northampton Arms, and she and her late husband Freddie seek vengeance on her killers. John convinces bar owner Marcus Quincy to rebuild the pub so the couple's love can live on. [*HB* 47-48]

**Winter 1991**

Augustine "Ya-Ya" Dupin sends John a vision of a coming storm. The mage returns to Louisiana and encounters his ancestor, Dark Conrad Constantine. John enlists Swamp Thing's aid in thwarting the demon pirate's killing spree by summoning the undead army of Conrad's nemesis, Jean LaFitte. John meets his daughter Tefé, who recognizes him as her "real" father. [*STv2* 114-115]

**December 1991**

On Christmas Eve John notices a sad ghost following him: Arcadian, Lord of the Dance, whom pagans once honored at Saturnalia with sex, feasting, and dancing, but who now wanders aimlessly and forgotten. John brings the deity to a pub so Arcadian can see that revelry lives on. [*HB* 49] The King of the Vampires invites John to join his court and spy on the occult world, but John tells him to off. [*HB* 50]

#### 1992

**In or Before 1992**

Constantine creates a magic ritual to disguise his face. [*Magic*] He hears a banshee's shriek, a burning seraph 's howl, and Hell's teeth crunching shut on an innocent soul. [*HB* 60]

**January 1992**

The demon Calibraxis, who once controlled Jack the Ripper, possesses England's Prince Charles, making him a serial killer. Sir Peter Marston asks Constantine to fix the problem, and John recruits Nigel Archer / Engels to help perform a séance and exorcism. [*HB* 52-55] John moves into Kit's fiat. She warns him to keep magic out of her life, so he stores his occult items in Chas' lockup. [*HB* 55-56]

**Early 1992**

Danny the Street, a sentient, transsexual road, dreams about World #612 's John Constantine (the Hellblazer) and his team, the Mighty Mystics. [*Doom* 53]

**Mid- to Late 1992**

Lucifer Morningstar sends Constantine a postcard from Perth, Australia, updating him on organizational changes in Hell. [*HB* 59]

*NOTE*: Why Lucifer would do this is unclear. It's not like Lucifer and John are buddies.

**August 1992**

Constantine meets Danny Drake, who'd sold his soul to Triskele, the Wyrm Queen of Succubae, for five years' success at trade and finance, then murdered his wife for five more years, and has now stolen a baby to buy additional life. John delivers the infant to the police and lets Triskele drag Drake to Hell. [*HB* 56]

**September 1992**

Chas' Uncle Tom dies, and John and Chas stop men from stealing the body at his funeral. John discovers that a research lab is desecrating corpses and trapping their souls, then frees those spirits to attack the scientists. [*HB* 57-58]

*NOTE*: HB 57-58 are set in the summer, while issue #56 takes place on the last day of August. This means the two-parter must occur during the first three weeks of September.

**Late 1992**

The First of the Fallen orders Ellie to help him destroy Constantine. She warns John, who hides the succubus by carving a masking sigil into her soul to stop Hell from tracking her. [*HB* 59-61] Nergal's daughter Rosacarnis assumes the throne after her father's disgrace, then watches John through a mystical mirror. [*HB* 200, 209]

**December 1992**

After Gemma's friend Robbie Brooks gives her a Ouija board, John pretends to curse Robbie and warns him to leave her alone. He then digs up and beheads his immortal ancestor Harry Constantine, thus becoming the last known male of his bloodline. [*HB* 62]

*NOTE*: Other Constantine males appear in HB 200 (Adam and Saul) and 293-300 (Finn Brady).

**Late 1992 or Early 1993**

Absorbed in his love for Kit and his fear of the Devil, John drifts through life for months, ignoring the lure of the occult. [*HB* 63] Death of the Endless asks his help in educating the living about the importance of practicing safe sex to prevent the spread of AIDS. Despite his embarrassment, John holds up a banana shaped like an erect penis while she demonstrates condom application. [*Death*]

**In or Before the Early 1990s**

Constantine and a fellow con artist named Sam perform trick séances. John meets her psychic uncle, Arthur Shinbone, and is impressed by the man 's occult book collection. [*HB* 85] He also meets Dez, a brilliant computer hacker with chronic armpit odor, who often spends days cataloguing ghostly phenomena on the Internet, ignoring his friends. [*HB* 111]

*NOTE*: This Dez is a different character than Desmond "Dez" Foster / Ridley.

**December 31, 1992**

John and Kit enjoy a romantic New Year's Eve together. [*HB* 71]

#### 1993

**In or Before 1993**

Constantine learns how to drive a car, [*HB* 298, 300; *Books* II] reads the works of Irish poet Brendan Behan, and gets to know a former Nazi war criminal from World War II. [*HB* 72] He meets voodoo crimelord Lady Jamma, who pretends to run a pornography scam in order to divert police from her true business: harming people for money via magic. [*HB* 115]

*NOTE*: BOOKS OF MAGIC miniseries instead of bumming a ride. HB 300 hints that he may have long known how to do so, but likes having others chauffeur him around.

Constantine does a favor for Kilburn hooligan Tosser Bates. [*HB* 65] After losing his passport, he relies on magic and con artistry to earn international passage. John charms Nimue Inwudu (Madame Xanadu), gains her confidence, and steals the Wind's Egg, which breaks during a scuffe With a troll in Birmingham. At a Kathmandu bar, he hears that Mister E always carries stakes in case he meets vampires and a gun loaded with silver bullets for werewolves. John mistakes this for a joke. [*Books* II, IV]

**Early 1990s**

Constantine reads the Necronomicon, Remy's Daemonolateria and the Malleus Maleficarum, and deems each book nothing but trouble. [*Encyc-V*] He procures Philo Scofield's Grimoire of the Underlands, translated from Latin, and learns about the Azki-Hak, the basis of legends about trolls and abominable snowmen. [*Subterranean*]

**1993**

William Matthieson pulls Rac Shade, Kathy George, and Lenny Shapiro into the past. Shade's subconscious mind ensnares Constantine from 1979, dragging him along for the ride. [*Shade* 42-44] John pulls cons with Pablo "Dr. Fessenheim" Fink, a psychic grifter from Brooklyn, including "The Ghost that Haunts the Party Lines." This involves recording a scary voice claiming a person's loved one needs money in Hell, then playing it back to anyone who calls a given phone number. [*HB* 131]

Constantine has a romantic fling with Annabel, a health-conscious Surrey woman who enjoys skiing and tennis, and whose strong thighs hurt John during sex. Her father often watches them make love through holes in the portraits of their home, after which John finds extra cash in his trenchcoat pocket. [*HB* 142]

*NOTE*: John remains in a committed relationship with Kit until May 1993, then becomes a homeless drunkfor the remainder of the year. Hence, John must be cheating on Kit, which seems to be his pattern.

**May 10, 1993**

Arcadian, Zatanna, Ellie, Nigel, Header, Rick, and Mange throw John a surprise 40th birthday party. John accidentally urinates on the Phantom Stranger's shoes, while Swamp Thing makes a peace offering by growing a marijuana plant to grand proportions for the revelers to smoke. [*HB* 63]

**Mid-May 1993**

Constantine and Ellie plot to bring down the Devil. The succubus disguises herself as a human and seduces the archangel Gabriel, causing him to fall from Cod's grace, [*HB* 64-67] The Colden Boy manipulates events to make John suffer the heartbreak of losing Kit and then succumb to alcoholism. [*HB* 249]

To send John a message, skinheads murder his friend Desmond "Dez" Foster / Ridley and nearly kill Kit as well. John forces Gabriel to help him fight the First of the Fallen, then severs his wings with a chainsaw and leaves the angel a homeless mortal. Kit ends their relationship and heads back to Belfast. Chas tries to console his friend, but John insults Renee, causing Chas to beat him to a pulp. [*HB* 64-67; *Heartland*]

*NOTE*: Dialogue places HB 64-67 shortly after John's birthday in May, but issue #70 has Kit arriving in Belfast in July. Dez's last name changesfrom Foster in HB 64 to Ridley in issue #78,

**Summer 1993**

Connie Sunderland hires Lawrence Polygon to resurrect her dead father, General Avery / Carlton H. Sunderland. She contacts Constantine, Zatanna, Doctor Fate, Baron Winters, and Jason Blood to obtain their opinions of Polygon's abilities. John's response is not [*STv2* 128]

*NOTE*: STv2 6 names the general Avery H. Sunderland, whereas VERTIGO SECRET FILES ORIGINS — SWAMP THING calls him Carlton Sunderland.

**July 1993**

Heartbroken by Kit's departure, John turns to alcohol. Too depressed to seek help, he begins a downward spiral that leaves him homeless in London. [*HB* 68]

*NOTE*: In HB 71, set just after New Year's Day of 1994, John has been on the streetsfor six months, placing the start of his homelessness in July 1993.

**Mid- to Late 1993**

Constantine takes refuge in a construction pipe with fellow transient Coney, who shares his Jack Daniels and suggests John fix his life via magic. John thinks of Kit, however, and takes no action. [*Jam*]

Zatanna tries to give up magic and suffers a string of nightmares involving Constantine and others from her past. [*Together*]

**October 1993**

When Tim Hunter demonstrates potential to become a powerful force for good or evil, the Phantom Stranger summons Constantine, Dr. Occult and Mister E to introduce the boy to magic. John dubs their group the Trenchcoat Brigade and brings the teen to meet the major players: Madame Xanadu, Jim Corrigan (the Spectre), Doctor Fate, Baron Winters, Jason Blood, and Zatanna. [*Books* I-IV]

*NOTE*: Although Neil Caiman's BOOKS OF MAGIC miniseries was published in 1990, the subsequent ongoing title set the miniseries in October 1993 — at which time Constantine was a homeless alcoholic. Perhaps the Phantom Stranger cleaned him up for the mission, which would mean John went right back to depression and drunkenness afterwards.

The Trenchcoat Brigade fights in a magic battle involving the Cult of Kali, three ninja death squads, fifty members of the Brotherhood of the Cold Flame, and a thousand elephants. A Kali cultist nearly kills John with a barrage of flaming swords, and he uses one to light a cigarette. [*Books* I-IV, 6-7; *MisterE* 1]

**Late 1993**

After Swamp Thing's body becomes poisoned by toxic sludge, the elemental hallucinates Constantine being annoyed at having to save him. [*STv2* 130]

**December 1993**

The King of the Vampires finds Constantine living in an alley with a young transient named Davy. After murdering the youth, the vampire bites John's neck, but his demon blood dissolves the King's jaw. John urinates on the vampire's head, then drags him out into the light, where he catches fire and incinerates. [*HB* 68-69] John spends New Year's Eve crying in Trafalgar Square. [*HB* 71]

#### 1994

**Early January 1994**

John passes out drunk along the River Thames. He dreams of Jamie Kilmartin, a World War II pilot who never gave up when faced with certain death, and decides to return to society. Mentally coercing a passing gentleman to hand over his wallet and checkbook, the mage books a hotel room and cleans himself up. [*HB* 71]

**Early 1994**

After leaving Swamp Thing, Abby Holland works as a strip-bar cocktail waitress. Among her first customers is Constantine, who introduces Abby to Donatien "Don" Alphonse Reynard, for whom he procures occult objects d'art. [*STv2* 134-135] When Anton Arcane's Un-Men abduct Abby, John and Don alert Swamp Thing and rescue her from General Sunderland. Arcane tries to possess John, but Agony and Ecstasy, the Slave-Twins of Hell 's Inquisition, drag the demon to Hell. [*STv2* 136-138]

*NOTE*: An editor's note sets STv2134-135 before Kit leaves John in HB 67, but internal evidence does not support this placement, given that John spends six months homeless.

Father Phillip Tolly, who'd tried to castrate Constantine in the 1960s, is released from a mental hospital. John spots the fallen priest on the street and follows him to a church, where Tolly admits to committing multiple murders, then kills himself in front of John. [*HB* Special l] Ignored by the High Council of Free Country, Tim Hunter muses that this sort of thing never happens to Constantine. [*Crusade* 2]

John flies to New York City. An old enemy, Zeerke, alerts Papa Midnite, who summons his dead sister's dark magic to send John's mind to a corner of Hell. John experiences nightmarish re-creations of American history and meets visions of John F. Kennedy and a demonic Uncle Sam. His unresponsive body is taken to a homeless shelter, where transients nearly set him on fire. [*HB* 72-75] The Phantom Stranger tries to enlist John's help in stopping the Spectre from destroying Earth, but finds the mage strung out at the shelter and carries on without him. [*Spectre* 15]

Constantine discovers an encyclopedia containing information about his own future, as well as those of Animal Man, Black Orchid, Tim Hunter, the Doom Patrol, Kid Eternity, the Endless, Wesley Dodds, Swamp Thing, and Rac Shade. He considers tossing it out before realizing the publication's value. [*Encyc-V*]

John ends up stuck in Dublin due to a flight malfunction. Brendan Finn's ghost joins him at a pub, and the two reminisce about old times. [*HB* 76] He overhears Chas entertaining friends by recounting how John became trapped in Hell while exorcising ghosts in Beano Digby's flat. Chas and John reconcile their differences. [*HB* 77]

**Summer 1994**

Constantine dates a woman named Sarah but puts little effort into the relationship. She leaves him after viewing how his lifestyle harms others. [*HB* 78-80] Header is killed while helping John steal documents revealing how to kill the First of the Fallen with a mystical blade. Ellie poses as Astra Logue and helps the First break the deadlock among the Lords of the Fallen. The First slays the Second and Third of the Fallen, as well as Arcadian, Rick Nilsen, Nigel, and Gabriel. He restores John's cancer, but before he can drag the mage to Hell, Ellie plunges the blade into his back and cures John's condition. [*HB* 78-83]

**Winter 1994**

Angel, an African horrorist, wanders the world sharing painful memories with those in areas marked by complacency and oppression. John receives a Vision of Angel while wallowing in depression, then tracks her down to Fenton, Illinois, where she causes a mindfield massacre at a playground. The horrorist shows him a vision of her childhood, making him feel the pain of a billion starving, abused children, and John awakens with a newfound love for mankind. [*Horrorist* 1-2]

*NOTE*: An editor's note in HB 100 places THE HORRORIST directly before HB 84. Since issue #84 takes place in 1994 and THE HORRORIST is set in the winter, both stories must occur in the winter of 1994.

John flies to Haiti, but has trouble returning to England with a bloodstained passport and no luggage. While he's gone, Chas' daughter Geraldine gives birth to a child, Tricia. At Chas' home — where John briefly lived in the 1970s — he feels the psychic vibrations of Chas' late mother Queenie and her chimpanzee familiar, Slag. [*HB* 84]

#### 1995

**In or Before 1995**

Constantine does a favor for Britain's Kellor crime family, who then owe him one in return. Crime boss John Kellor warns his son Jack to be wary of the mage, [*Mobfre* 4] John helps out Jack Green, Lord of the Lupins, who owes him a favor as well. Swamp Thing warns Jack's people — a horned fairy species called the Mendw — that Constantine can be diffcult to deal with. [*HB* 93, 108]

John obtatns a copy of Aleister Crowley's "On the Transfer & Application of Souls." [*HB* 96]

Terry Greaves brings Constantine to his house on business. The London gangster's nine-year-old daughter Epiphany sees John for the first time and immediately falls in love. Despite his being in his forties, she vows to marry him someday. [*HB* 295] Constantine orders sashimi at a restaurant, then takes the dish home, cooks it, and decides it tastes like fish. [*HB* 85]

**1995**

The Other, an evil Tim Hunter, murders himself in a thousand realities to absorb each duplicate's magic. He encounters Constantine on Worlds #46 and #101 to 103 before realizing John is a bastard and preemptively killing him. On #612, the Other murders John's superhero analogue, the Hellblazer. [*Books* Annual 3]

Thomas Currie, hoping to limit the Other's power, kills thousands of Tjms throughout the Multiverse, leaving John mortally wounded in one reality. [*Books* 52]

**Early 1995**

Former Green Lantern Guy Gardner opens a nightclub called Warriors and invites thousands of metahumans and celebrities to attend opening night, including Constantine, Swamp Thing, and Zatanna — as well as several popular Hollywood movie stars. [*Gardner* 29]

Constantine attends John Kellor's funeral. The Bocor, a magic-using mobster, scrambles Jack Kellor's brain with a mind-blast, but John leads Jack back to sanity via a psychic link. [*Mobfire* 1, 5] Dream of the Endless dies as well, and John pays his respects at the wake. [*Sandman* 71] After Tim Hunter's friend Jimmy is turned into a clay statue, Tim considers asking Constantine to save Jimmy and train Tim in magic. [*Books* 25]

**May to June 1995**

When the Everything Virus causes manifestations and apocalyptic visions, Sir Francis Dashwood, Benjamin Franklin, Greek fertility goddess Bona Dea, and cat-demon Murnarr turn to John for help. He travels to Papua New Guinea, realizes Dashwood is the culprit, and traps the ghost in a tree. [*HB* 85-88]

Aboriginal witch doctor Jeffo Nampijinpa helps Constantine perceive tjukurrtpna (the invisible dreamtime) and shows him how white men have poisoned local plants and animals. John contacts a local deity, the Rainbow Serpent, to slaughter the corporation responsible. He flirts with an attractive woman named Delvene, but circumstances prevent them from pursuing romance. [*HB* 89-90]

**June 1995**

Back in London, John runs into Richard "Rich the Punk" Eldridge, his girlfriend Michelle "Slark" Hanson, and their son Syder. John and Rich drive out to where their friend Deanie vanished in 1978 and encounter the ghosts of soldiers slain in 1642's Battle of Essex. John realizes Deanie was lost in time and killed during the battle, and helps his friend rest in peace. [*HB* 91]

**In or Before Summer 1995**

John rents a fiat at 15 Popingham Road. [*HB/Books* 1]

**Summer 1995**

Tim Hunter's class opens time capsules made in 1967 by his teacher's classmates, including Constantine. Tim opens John's box, which contains a locket inside John which had hidden his innocence, vulnerability and naiVeté. A demon called Kobal steals the locket and brings it to Hell, but Tim and John retrieve it. [*HB/Books*]

**Mid-1995**

Lord Buer, a child-abducting demon, finds the First of the Fallen living on a Greek fishing boat as a mortal named Theo. Buer says the Devil can return to Hell ifhis "one-most-hated" (Constantine) surrenders his soul willingly To that end, the demon possesses Syder, then offers to release the boy in exchange for John's soul. The Phantom Stranger suggests John split himselfin two — human and demon — and consign his demon doppelgänger to Hell. The trick works, and Buer releases Syder along with the souls of Astra Logue and other children. [*HB* 92-96]

**Mid- to Late 1995**

Bane-Mite tries to conquer the Dwarf Dimension, so Bat-Mite journeys to Earth to elicit help. Mite versions of Constantine, Swamp Thing, and others answer the call. [*Mitefall*] When the demon Neron wreaks havoc, Alan Scott (the Sentinel) descends to Hell to battle the dark force. Swamp Thing and John are among those affected by the supernatural onslaught. [*Abyss* 1]

**In or Before Autumn 1995**

Constantine discovers that the loss of his demon blood has removed his tolerance for alcohol. He wanders into the woods to clear his head and meets a gypsy named Tom — God disguised as a shepherd watching his flock — who tells John his fortune via tarot cards. [*HB* 97]

**Autumn 1995**

Constantine's friend Robert William "Straff" Strathern calls John after his mother Betty has an epileptic seizure. John realizes the ghost of an abused dog is haunting Straff's fiat and leads the pooch back to its former owner. [*HB* 98]

While hanging out with Straff, Rich, Michelle, and their friends Lofty and Muppet, John reunites with Sadie, a punk rocker from his Mucous Membrane days. The group visits the magical realm of Abaton, but the fairy Jack Green bars their entrance unless they agree to have all memory of the place removed when they leave. There, they meet Robert the Smith, the source of all Robin Hood legends. [*HB* 99]

The First of the Fallen drags John's soul to Hell, causing his body to nearly die. The Devil shows him his father's eternal torture and reveals that Thomas, not John, caused his mother's death, by forcing her to have a back-alley abortion. John awakens from his coma, forgiving Thomas but accepting that his father deserves damnation. [*HB* 100]

**December 25, 1995**

On Christmas Guy Gardner invites the metahuman community to a party at Warriors. Zatanna, the Phantom Stranger, and Swamp Thing attend — as does Constantine, who spikes the punch. [*Gardner* 39]

#### 1996

**In or Before 1996**

Constantine has sex with one of Queen Elizabeth II's daughters-in-law. He decides she has nice legs but is "thick as two short planks." [*STv2* 169] John meets a psychic called Weeble, who channels the ghost of Oscar Wilde and other spirits. The dead playwright often flirts with John through the obese medium. [*HB* 107, 124] John does a favor for Ash Walker, who walks the world protecting magicians, though the two do not form a friendship. [*Names* 2]

**May 1996**

When London's dock workers go on strike, politician Lawrence Downing pays Constantine to hex the union leaders. Downing bribes union negotiator "Red" Mal Brady, and John uses magic to make Brady accept the deal, despite the mage's hatred for capitalism. Mal hears voices thereafter, while John regrets selling out. [*HB* 251-253]

**Before June 1996**

John asks Ash Walker to protect Tim Hunter from a fairy army looking to assassinate the youth. The Trenchcoat Brigade instructs Walker to bring Tim to the White School so he can train in safety, and John warns Tim's ex-girlfriend, Molly O'Reilly, to be careful. [*Names* 1-2, 4]

*NOTE*: THE NAMES OF MAGIC in 2001, but given Tim's age (soon turning 15), the miniseries must take place in 1996, since he was born in June 1981.

**Late 1996**

Constantine, Chas, and Rich attend an Arsenal Football Club game. A bad referee call results in a riot, and John notices a demon collecting the souls of agitated fans killed during the chaos. He convinces the demon to leave by offering up the soul of a violent football hooligan. [*HB* 101]

Incomplete without his darker half, Constantine visits Ravenscar, then follows the I Ching's path to Pritchard's Bait & Tackle, whose owner had pranked police officer Bill Ferguson in 1978 by posing as a serial killer. Ferguson had thus killed himself after the real murderer took another victim. John brings Bill's son Keith to see Pritchard and leaves the man to avenge his father. He travels to Hell and seduces Ellie, inseminating himself with new evil (demon blood), then leaves, a complete being once more. [*HB* 102-104]

At the home of a wealthy woman in Porlock, Constantine learns that Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed his poem "Kubla Khan" while staying at the estate in 1798, and that he knew John's ancestor James Constantine. [HB 105] He discovers a dilapidated building near the home of Bill and Nellie Greenwood, hidden by magic and containing the corpse of British soldier Jack Loudfoot, who' d hanged himself during World War II. John reunites Loudfoot's spirit with his lost love — Nellie. [*HB* 106-107]

Hoping to blackmail Simon Harcourt-Fenton, John earns an invitation to one of the politician's degenerate orgies by claiming to specialize in nonorthogenital fertility rituals. His fake ritual accidentally summons savage fairy creatures known as Mendw, who possess attendees and create gory mayhem, much to the host's delight. [*HB* 108]

Constantine learns that a poet named Bob plans to write Bloody Hell: The Unauthorized Biography of John Constantine. To scare him into desisting, John paints an inflatable sex doll red, ties Bob up inside a pentagram, and leaves the "demon" to watch over him. John helps rock star Adam Casey Clay cope with hearing gods' voices in his head. [*Mythos* 2]

#### 1997

**In or Before 1997**

In Hong Kong, Constantine tries to steal a bag of tricks from ancient magician el Sehor Blake. [*STv2* 166, 169] The shaman of the Brazilian tribe guarding the Parliament of Trees teaches John how to suppress an elemental's powers. [*STv3* 10] Upon meeting Timothy Raven, last of the Ravenwind Witches, John deems him a snob. [*STV2* 166]

He rides a New York City yellow cab driven by a man named Abdul, whose reckless driving leaves the mage terrified. [*HB* 118]

**1997**

Gemma Masters turns 20 years old. Her Uncle John forgets to acknowledge her birthday, for which she holds a grudge. [*HB* 131]

Constantine, Timothy Raven, and the Phantom Stranger form a plan to stop Swamp Thing from destroying humanity. John steals a box of wishing matches from el Sehor Blake, then strikes a match and wishes for the elemental 's godhood to be stripped away for an hour, leaving Alec Holland at the mercy of an archangel called the Word. [*STv2* 166, 169-171]

After Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) dies, Swamp Thing and other metahumans attend his funeral. Though uninvited, Constantine pays his respects as well. [*Lantern* 81] The farm of Rene Chandler's Uncle Wilfis razed by werewolves, and John sorts out the problem for her. During a restroom break, he is interrupted midstream by reporter Dani Wright, who checks out his exposed manhood, then leaves her business card. [*HB* 109]

King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table return to Albion (Great Britain) and ask John to help stop Myrddin (Merlin) from destroying the world's dragon lines, removing God 's touch from the planet, and finding the Holy Grail. John dates Dani Wright, becomes the godfather of Rich's unborn child, learns that Rich is from Arthur's bloodline, and finds the severed — and talking — head of Brån the Blessed. [*HB* 110-114]

**Mid-1997**

Upon finding Dani battered by her abusive ex-boyfriend Greg, John pays voodoo crimelord Lady Jamma to teach him a lesson. Jamma casts a spell to make Greg suffer Dani's menstrual cycle — but for the spell to work, John purposely antagonizes Dani during her period, which strains their relationship. [*HB* 115]

At a Selhurst cemetery, dead spirits grow agitated by the footfalls of Ken Riley, whose daily jogs prevent them from resting in peace — because he runs in the direction opposite posted exit and entry signs. The spirits attack the family of John's friend Slobodan, while others fall ill after seeing the ghosts. Constantine hypnotizes Riley to go home and stop jogging, which pacifies the spirit world. [*HB* 116-117]

**Late 1997**

Michelle gives birth, and John records the arrival of his new goddaughter, Ivy Mae Palace Eldridge. Straff's mother Betty dies of a heart attack as Ivy is born, and Constantine catches a whiffofher perfume emanating from the baby. [*HB* 118, 125] Dani asks John to care for her fish while she's away, but he accidentally kills it — as well as the replacement fish he buys, after he experiences a premonition of being aboard an exploding airplane. [*HB* 119]

**Before October 1997**

John helps Dani create miniaturized furniture for her dollhouse collection. He hopes no one will find out, fearing damage to his reputation. [*HB* 120]

**October 1997**

A woman named Chloe is possessed by a demon. John chains her to a bed, intending to use the trapped creature to his advantage, but the demon ignites her body on fire as John brings a friend to witness him performing magic. [*HB* 120]

**In or Before November 1997**

John listens to the music of punk rock band Carcinoma and it awful. [*HB* 121]

**Late November 1997**

At Thanksgiving, John meets Dani Wright's family in New York City and is caught up in a family squabble. He channels the memories of her grandfather into the minds of her sleeping brothers, making them witness the racism, loss, and wartime horrors he'd faced, and thereby inspiring them to be better men. [*HB* 121-124]

**December 25, 1997**

Dani and John return to New York a month later for Christmas with the Wrights. Stepping out to a bar, Constantine chats with the ghost of a man named Theodore, who worries about his girlfriend being alone. When she enters the bar, John hands her a stuffed rabbit she'd once given Theodore. [*Winter* 1]

#### 1998

**1998**

After Tefé slaughters loggers to punish them for cutting down trees, Abby and Swamp Thing ask John to remove her powers, but he can only suppress them — which requires the loss of a human life. They choose Mary Conway, a comatose teen dying of leukemia. Swamp Thing manipulates Tefé's abilities to make her features mimic Mary's, then John murders Mary, causing Tefé to think she's the Conway teen. [*STv3* 2, 10]

Jim Corrigan gives up the mantle of the Spectre, and Constantine attends his funeral. [*Spectre* 62] The Challengers of the Unknown seek John's advice when the King Under the Hill, a Millennium Giant preparing the Earth for a cycle of renewal, moves along the planet's ley lines, destroying ancient shrines and churches. [*Challengers* 15]

**Spring or Summer 1998**

Cheryl's family moves to a new house, after which Cheryl contracts tonsillitis. John fails to help with the move or check on his sister. [*HB* 126]

**Summer 1998**

Constantine performs godfather duties when Michelle and Rich host a christening for Ivy Mae. Jack Green and Robin Hood attend the ceremony. [*HB* 125] Ellie brainwashes Gavin Pomeroy into blaming John for his wife Pam's death. Gav nearly kills Muppet, then summons Lord Buer from Hell. Ellie / Pam and Buer drive a wedge between John and his loved ones, who turn their backs on him. John sells his soul to the First of the Fallen, then convinces Cod to nullify the contract. [*HB* 125-128] John drinks excessively to forget about Dani and Rich. He visits his Uncle Roy, demands alcohol, and threatens to kill the man, straining their relationship. [*HB* 253]

**Mid- to Late 1998**

John's Aunt Jean passes away. Ashamed of his behavior at their last encounter, Constantine neglects to visit his Uncle Roy. [*HB* 253]

**In or Before Late 1998**

John meets a fellow who can make corpses dance. [*HB* 130] He moves into a top-floor flat and gets to know his neighbors, Carol and Sylvia (a couple, though Sylvia fancies him), Billy (a war veteran), and Mr. Fronts (who struts around in his underwear and likes to talk about his genitals). [*HB* 129, 131]

**Late 1998**

Constantine encounters the fuckpig that he'd placed inside Ronnie Cooper in 1982. Now age 21, but still in a child's form, Ronnie has impregnated his gangster father Harry with the Antichrist. John sends the fuckpig to Hell and destroys the baby with an axe. [*HB* 129-133] Another Ronnie, the bartender at the Rat and Torch, discovers that his ex-wife is a demon. Constantine helps him avoid being castrated and having his genitals roasted in Hell. [*HB* 142]

**Before October 1998**

Constantine blackmails a British detective by threatening to publicly reveal the trouble the cop got into on Watford High Street, which earned him the nickname "Watford." John rents an unfurnished, uncarpeted apartment and uses boxes of his belongings as furniture. [*HB* 134]

John befriends Ken "Map" Ondaatie, a powerful magician connected to the entire city of London. When Map leaves magic behind, John gets him a job cleaning track debris from the London Underground. He meets Darren, a drug addict who practices "crack magic," and Hawkstorm, a failed stage magician whom John calls "Sparrowfart." The latter's brother Paul rapes John's friend Keeley Dawson, so John slips Paul LSD, causing him to embrace religion and chop off his own penis with a hacksaw. [*HB* 135, 137]

**October 1998**

John's ex-girlfriend Isabel Bracknell is murdered. To help her spirit rest, he consults Tate Club magicians Clarice Sackville and Albert Case, then reads Isabel's diary and learns about her abusive relationship with Josh Wright, whose cronies beat Constantine to a pulp. Chas, Map, Darren, and Watford help John catch the killer, whom they feed LSD and lock in Isabel's coffin overnight. [*HB* 134-139]

**Winter 1998**

As Constantine drowns his sorrows at a pub, a couple and their children step inside to get out of the rain, but the bartender makes them leave. John thinks about friends who have died because of him and decides Kit Ryan is better off far from his world. [*Winter* 2]

#### 1999

**In or Before 1999**

John suffers a sore throat from trying to pronounce complex fairy spells in an ancient Leshy language. [*Trenchcoat* 4]

The FBI opens a case file on the mage, with restricted accessibility. [*Shoot*] Constantine helps out Bert Dawson, who ends up vegetative and pisses himself at the sound of the theme music to the nine o'clock news. He watches Irvine St. John's "nasty" movie about 1960s occultist Fraser. [*HB* 143]

**1999**

Constantine visits 18-year-old Tim Hunter and asks if he still believes in magic. Tim says everything around them is magic, even the negative aspects, and John approves of his protégé's outlook. [*Hunter* 25]

*NOTE*: Tim mentions Constantine having spent time in the United States, seemingly referring to Brian Azzarello's run on HELLBLAZER. However, given Tim's age, the year must be 1999, which is before Azzarello's tenure. As such, Tim must be referencing a previous trip.

Constantine, Rose Psychic and the Phantom Stranger confront Mister E after a string of attacks on Russian immigrants match his past handiwork. With E's friends Annie and Genevieve in danger from John's ancestor Pyotr Konstantin, the four mystics enter the time stream to confront the Cossack in the past. [*Trenchcoat* 1] John has a fling with Gypsy sorceress Tchalai Dermitzel, whom he nicknames "Star-eyes." Her enormous parrot, Spitlove, curses John out whenever he visits. [*War Lord*]

An evil, female version of Tim Hunter tries to destroy the universe, so Constantine and Zatanna travel to a medieval Earth on which humans, fairies, and demons intermingle. John assumes the title Lord Constantine, and he and Zatanna become lovers again as they lead the Bred (humans and their sympathizers) in a war against the Born (magical creatures and human traitors). [*Wartime* 1-5, 7-15] Magic suddenly vanishes on an Earth on which occult use is commonplace. John watches from an airplane as a wave of water, no longer magic-controlled, decimates London's Tower Bridge. [*Conjurors* 2]

**May l, 1999**

Constantine bets on the Kentucky Derby, using magic to ensure a large payoff. [*Totems*]

**September 1999**

John has nightmares about July 1969, when his friend Pamela was left catatonic by a botched magic spell, while her boyfriend Ivan was driven schizophrenic from possession by Magpie of the Dreaming. John's ex-housemates Nancy Warren, Terry, Oliver, and Ravi have the same dream, and the group helps Pam, Ivan, and Magpie end their decades-long suffering. [*Love*]

**Late 1999**

John helps Watford stop psychic serial killer Colin Gates, who forces victims to murder one another but wants someone to end his misery, since he's too cowardly to commit suicide. John electrocutes Gates' genitals with a lamp, then sets his room on fire and drags the killer to safety. [*HB* 140]

After the 10-year-old son of Constantine's friend is shot on a playground, John looks into the rise in child-on-child murders in the United States. Journalist Penny Carnes notices John's image in video footage from various mass shootings, and John visits her to point out the common factor in each incident: with no hope or future, raised by TV instead of good parenting, many teens wait to be shot Instead of running away. [*Shoot*]

Multiple murders occur related to the search for the Crib, a nonexistent wooden box made up by French occult author Éliphas Lévi Zahed, reputed to contain the Antichrist's miscarried fetus. Author David Niles convinces himself the Crib has possessed him, but John finds that he has merely taped a cereal box to his nipples. [*HB* 141]

Dr. Yamagata, an old man renting a room from John's friend Anna, dies. His ghost confesses to having committed atrocities during World War II, and asks John to do the same to him — which John does. [*HB* 142] "Dogman" Ron seeks John's assistance in preventing journalist Irvine St. John from exposing Ron's sex-and-drugs ring. To scare the writer, the mage tells St. John macabre tales involving the British Royals and fakes his own execution. He then has sex with a nun at Christ Church Spitalfields. [*HB* 143]

**Before November 1999**

John watches *Star Trek: The Next Generation* and deems it "a lot of bollocks," though he appreciates actor Marina Sirtis' beauty. [*HB* 145]

**November 1999**

A young boy is caught stealing to pay another child, Samir, to resurrect his dead bulldog. The boy's parents ask John to look into the situation, and he discovers that Samir can raise the dead. [*HB* 144-145]

**December 1999**

In another reality, sorcerer Jeroen Thornedike communes with his predecessors in the Garden of Ancestral Memory. These include Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein, and John Constantine. [*Authority* 9]

**December 25, 1999**

Constantine's neighbor Gerald inadvertently summons the demonic spirit of a bubonic-plague victim, which burns Gerald and steals the costume of a department-store Santa Claus. John meets the demon while trudging out in the snow for cigarettes, then kills it with the baby Jesus figure from a Nativity scene. [*Winter* 3]

**Before 2000**

The pope gives Constantine a hand job. [*HB* 153] John receives aftershave from an aunt that smells sour and meaty, like a werewolf's breath. [*HB* 292]

### 2000s

**In or Before 2000**

John witnesses Frank Bufo dipping a man's head in a fat fryer for quipping that the gangster's body odor has left his girlfriend unable to eat. [*Secret*] A woman tells John she has five different nationalities, and he jokes that she must have been conceived at an orgy. [*STv3* 8] A fan club devoted to John Constantine and Mucous Membrane creates a fanzine called Constant-zine. [*STv3* 10]

**In or Before the 21st Century**

Constantine attends a party in Ireland. Police raid the party but soon join in the fun, and one officer pins a badge on him. He has a threesome in the bushes at a rock festival, barely recalling whether both partners were female. He engages in a Wiccan orgy within sight of Stonehenge, has sex with drunk meter maids in a Chelsea pub's back room, visits a California SUM club, hooks up with an Irish girl in Dublin, and experiences a premonition of dying by drowning. [*Subterranean*]

John learns a binding spell from a blind prostitute in Cairo, Egypt, [*HB* 259] tongue-kisses several angels and finds their breath sweet, [*HB* 300] and meets Boston Brand (Deadman), who dislikes the Brit. [*Aftermath*]

An Australian aborigine teaches him how to euthanize someone by placing a hand on that person's face and willing him or her to die, [*HB* Annual 2011] and Papa Midnite instructs John in a West African conjuring rite involving wheat grains. [*Aftermath*]

The Balkan hires Constantine to expel a demon from his daughter's body. John fails at the task, but lets the Balkan think she is no longer possessed. While traveling in Korea, John visits an old sorcerer, who laughs when John claims to have suffered. The sorcerer shows him a large bear stuffed into a cage too small for its frame so humans can extract bile and other substances. [*War Lord*]

**December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000**

Constantine hosts a New Year's Eve party attended by occultists and metahumans. Conspiracy theorist Bernie Madden gets a waiter job at the event so he can schmooze with the magic crowd. When Buddy Baker (Animal Man), Swamp Thing, and Black Orchid link their minds, Rac Shade's madness causes reality to reshape itself to mirror Madden's theories, including little green aliens and laser-wielding Egyptians. Passed out drunk, John misses all of it. [*Totems*]

#### 2000

**Circa 2000**

John and a 300-year-old river deity become "fuck buddies." [*HB* 292] In another reality, 15 -year-old Jacqueline "Jackie" Constantine saves Charlotte "Charlie" Amwell from being burned as a witch, and the two girls become lovers. Tim Hunter dismantles their world, but brings them to live in his reality. [*Wartime* 13-15]

*NOTE*: Story-wise, Jackie and Charlie serve as analogues to John and Chas.

**Mid-2000**

Frank Bufo threatens to rape Constantine with a shotgun after he smokes while the mobster is eating dinner. John stubs out a cigarette between Bufo's eyes and calls him a fat toad. Bufo then finds his skin sporting blisters and fears that John has put a toad curse on him. To break the hex, he drinks a mixture of John's blood, sweat, urine, semen, and tears — which his slave Sonja obtains by seducing the mage. [*Secret*]

*NOTE*: John has not hexed Bufo, so the blisters' cause is unknown.

Stanley "SW." Manor coerces Richard "Lucky" Fermin Into committing suicide and framing Constantine for his death, by promising to financially support Lucky's wife Marjorie. [*HB* 172] Lucky hands John a gun and begs to be put out of his misery, then shoots himself in the face after Constantine returns the weapon with his fingerprints on it. Investigators arrest John for murder. Guilt-ridden, he offers no defense and is sentenced to 35 years in prison. [*HB* 146-150]

Constantine uses mental tricks to gain the upper hand with the top prison gangs. The Aryan Brothers try to have him killed, but the assassins end up dead instead. John cons mobster Ray Stark into forming a partnership, then uses magic to make Stark go insane and spark a riot. FBI special agent Frank Turro offers Constantine a deal — his freedom in exchange for the riot's cessation — and tells him S.W. Manor caused Lucky's death. John accepts the offer and is set free. [*HB* 146-150]

John is listed as having died in the riot, leaving him free to move about while he and Turro scheme to bring Manor down. John frequents a Los Angeles sadomasochistic fetish club and brags about his sexual exploits, enabling him to become S.W.'s lover. The two men engage in S&-M, and John helps Manor see the ghosts of his murdered parents — who tell him they loathe the man he has become. When John laughs and leaves him chained up, Manor contacts Richie Fermin and offers him the opportunity to make John pay for his brother Lucky's death. [*HB* 168, 170-174]

**Summer 2000**

London gangster Terry Greaves promises politician Lord de Loup that his alchemist daughter Epiphany can cure impotence with a Viagra substitute. The tincture proves too powerful, causing de Loup to transform into a werewolf and go on a killing spree. Terry hires Constantine to administer an antidote, but John botches the job and ends up clawed, becoming a werewolf in the process. [*HB* 292]

*NOTE*: In 2012 Epiphany claims these events occurred 10 years prior, but since she is 14 at the time and was born in 1986, the story must take place in 2000 — throughout which John remains in the United States, not England. Constantine is not shown being cured, but has never been a werewolf in later tales.

**Late 2000**

Constantine hitches a ride to Doglick to clear the air with Dickie and Richie Fermin, who have saved their town from poverty by making Internet pornography starring local rednecks and a bulldog called Cerberus. They drug John and film him receiving canine fellatio. During his stay, he catches up with an ex-lover, Dickie's wife Rose, who declines to leave with him. [*HB* 151-156] John visits Lucifer's Lux piano bar in Los Angeles to have "a quick look at the field." He shares a drink with a man hoping to trade information with Lucifer for a stake in a mystical gateway. [*Lucifer* 5]

**November 2000**

With Tefé missing, Swamp Thing and Abby ask John to find her. He tracks his daughter and her companions, Barnabas Tookome and Pilate, to Washington, D.C., where she tries to strangle him with the tobacco in his lungs. John casts an obedience spell on her, but their familial connection prevents either from hurting the other, and Tefé refuses to return to Louisiana. [*STv3* 10]

*NOTE*: As a youth, John had no trouble casting a spell on his father, Thomas Constantine.

**Winter 2000-2001**

John meets Agent Turro at the Half Shell Bar for drinks. Turro passes him a slip of paper containing the word "Highwater," and says someone from John's past is trying to ruin his life. [*HB* 157] During a Wisconsin blizzard, John stops by Keith's Saloon at the same time as numerous murderers: a trio of thugs who'd killed a man during a robbery gone awry; a serial killer sitting in his car, whom John talks into impaling himself with an icicle; and a man named Pete, who emulates a legendary serial killer, the Iceman. Ironically, most in the bar assume John to be a killer. [*HB* 158-161]

*NOTE*: Wisconsin is unnamed, but the saloon is in the Chippewa Falls area, located in that state.

**Between 2000 and 2011**

Constantine's trenchcoat becomes sentient and evil, following years of being worn in the presence of demons, spells, bad-luck magic, and crimes against nature. The coat decides John is not a worthy companion. [*HB* 283]

*NOTE*: John receives a replacement trenchcoat in HB 173, so he has only had this coat for about a decade when he notices its evil nature in 2011. Dialogue throughout this storyline indicates John and the coat both think they've been together since the 1970s, but that is not the case.

#### 2001

**2001**

Epiphany "Piffy" Greaves watches Constantine from the back seat of her father Terry's Jaguar. Although most people fear Terry, John blows smoke in his face, which attracts Piffy even more. [*HB* 273]

*NOTE*: Constantine spends all of 2001 in the United States, during Brian Azzarello's HELLBLAZER run. Terry must have brought his daughter — and, apparently, his car — to the Statesfor a visit.

**Early to Mid-2001**

Constantine travels to Montana. He sees a poster advertising punk rock bands Napalm Fucker and Wasted Youth. [*HB* 162-163]

**September 2001**

Following the destruction of the World Trade Center, Constantine meets with his friend Paul, an insurance agent at H.S. Piper, who relates with disgust how his boss tried to deny payments to the victims and their families. John ponders whether such a tragedy will happen again. [*9-11*]

**Late 2001**

Constantine visits the town of Highwater to find Lucky Fermin's widow Marjorie. Lucky's ghost urges John to save Marjorie from Major Ellison Gage, a white-supremacist leader whom she has befriended. John pretends to agree with Gage's racist views in order to infiltrate and destroy his organization. [*HB* 164-167]

John warns African magician Mtakwishayenu (Wish) that Tefé and Pilate will seek her out to learn about the Tree of Knowledge, which John feels they don't deserve to find. His daughter receives a VISion of a possible future in which she tricks her biological dad into impregnating her so she can sire the Antichrist, wipe out mankind, and achieve global peace. [*STv3* 19-20]

Constantine brings a prostitute, whom he nicknames Kitty, to a church bingo night so he can win enough money to pay her to have sex with both him and Turro. The FBI agent declines the threesome, leaving John to enjoy her services alone. [*HB* 168] The mage visits an Irish pub and meets a patron named Wally, who enters with dried ketchup on his hands, claiming it's his wife's blood. John makes a joke about the Beatles, then he and everyone at the bar sing the band's hits together over drinks. [*HB* 169]

#### 2002

**Late 2001 or Early 2002**

As a dominatrix named Graham whips S.W. Manor's back at an fetish club, Constantine grabs the whip, masturbates Manor to climax, and wipes his fingers on his ex-lover's face. Richie Fermin tries to kill John, but sets himselfon fire. Thanks to magic, those in the room see John burn instead. Manor mourns Constantine's loss, and the mage tricks him into thinking John's ghost is haunting him. [*HB* 170-174]

**Mid-2002**

Constantine returns to England on a garbage barge, keeping a low profile to avoid alerting authorities that he's alive. He explains to Cheryl why he let the world think him dead, then meets a pretty waitress, Angela "Angie" Spatchcock, who shares his interest in the occult. John investigates troubles at Cheryl 's apartment building, Elster Tower. Angie is nearly murdered by the Striptease Killer, but John cures her wounds by injecting her with demon blood. [*HB* 175-176]

**August 2002**

Domine Fredericks forces Clarice Sackville and the Tate Club to deliver a member of the Constantine line to find the Red Sepulchre. Clarice offers him Gemma, whom Fredericks brainwashes, but she proves inadequate, so the mobster turns his eye to John. After Fredericks attacks the club, John sets out to save his niece, summoning Indian goddess Kali to destroy the kingpin's organization. Gemma holds a grudge against her uncle for ruining her chance to prove herself as a magician. [*HB* 177-180]

#### 2003

**In or Before 2003**

Constantine angers Ghursoon, the leader of Be'esira extremist group the Binei Gadol, who claim to be descendants of Cain awaiting God's pardon. John seduces her assistant Beriti and steals the Testament of the Nephilim, which he burns and consumes, since the knowledge it contains is too dangerous. He spends time in Juliema, Brazil; meets Tomaz, a bartender at the Bar Ojardim; and helps an Iranian, Salmi, get out of trouble involving a cursed tattoo. [*HB* 184-185]

John meets magic-wielding monk Donatus Chalice, from the militant Closed Order of the Alexins. He learns Chalice is a werewolf, then uses that knowledge as leverage. [*HB* 229]

Gemma Masters changes her name to Gemma Constantine to indicate her status as a magician. [*HB* 187, 203]

**2003**

John's friend Helen Cawdor is murdered by her cannibalistic boyfriend, Brian McArthur. Constantine tracks Brian down and the two grapple. Brian falls nine stories to his death, and John regrets never having had sex with Helen. [*Entries*] John takes a trip to Thailand's Patpong entertainment district. [*Bangkok*]

Hector Hall (Doctor Fate) opens a scrying window to spy on numerous occultists, including Constantine. [*Fate*]

**March 2003**

Zatanna's magician friend Mary Ann Hoyt (Nimue Ravensong) lures Constantine to her place, then bites him and utters a Sumerian chant, causing a screaming mouth to appear on his hand. She sells John to a demon, but he escapes and magically seals himself inside Zatanna's home to await her return. Zatanna initially tosses him out, but eventually frees him from the curse. [*Everyday*]

**Early to Mid-2003**

Three Lukhavim (monsters made of dead souls) hunt for John. They threaten Chas' family to make the cabbie betray his friend, then separate John 's spirit from his body and chase his disembodied soul around London. John summons the ghosts of dead Bethlem Royal Hospital psychiatric patients to battle them. [*HB* 181] Celtic spirits escape into the waking world, and the Gironnved (Shepherds of the Dead) are dispatched to collect the lost souls. One spirit possesses Angie Spatchcock 's brother Jason until Constantine breaks its holds on him. [*HB* 182-183]

The Three Witches foretell Constantine's ordeal in the Garden of Eden, including an encounter with Swamp Thing. [*VertigoX*]

John helps Paho Bokhari defeat an enemy in exchange for information about the Shadow Dog, then visits the Parliament of Trees' ashes to seek Swamp Thing's help in slaying the creature. John and Angie fly to Iran to consult with Ghursoon, who tells John about the Beast of Eden that followed Adam and Eve out of the Garden. They travel to Tasmania, where John consumes mushrooms and takes a dream walk to commune with Australian aboriginals killed by British soldiers in 1833, who reveal the Shadow Dog's name: Kua I'pa. [*HB* 184-186]

**August 2003**

Constantine hears his neighbor Ella arguing with her twin sister Anna. He agrees to intercede, unaware the two are cannibalistic, symbiotic demons — Anna has glands to digest their victims, while Ella has a stomach. Anna asks John to procure the healing tears of Pope Innocent Ill, which he obtains from Donatus Chalice, who in turn asks John to solve the murder of his order's abbot, Paulano Rei. John discovers that the sisters are responsible for Rei's death, and Chalice slays the twin demons. [*HB* 229]

*NOTE*: John relates these events to hisfriend Kev in HB229. He meets Kev in issue #182, while Chalice dies in #190, so this story must occur in between. This places the tale in 2003; the comic specifies August.

**Mid- to Late 2003**

Ghant hires Gemma to help procure a succubus bone from Gruinard Island, Scotland. The two are nearly killed by the halfiing offspring of the succubus and her vampire lover, whom her Uncle John had encountered in 1983. [*HB* 187-188]

**In or Before the Early 2000s**

Constantine tricks Nergal out of possessing the soul of an innocent child. [*HB* 275]

*NOTE*: No issue of HELLBLAZER features Constantine doing this, yet HB275 refers to it as a past event. Perhaps the story confuses the demon Buer with Nergal, from whom John freed Astra, Snyder Eldridge, and other children in HB 96.

#### 2004

**In or Before 2004**

Constantine saves the life of U.S. Air Force officer Kowalski, after a prostitute he'd hired turns out to be a vampire. Thereafter, the grateful soldier smuggles Silk Cut cigarettes out of Germany for John. [*STv4* 3] Constantine travels to Rome to research Kua l'pa in the Vatican's Black Library and discovers that many soothsayers, going back to Nostradamus, have predicted the Shadow Dog's arrival portending the end of the world. [*HB* 1891 In a reality created by the demon Rosacarnis, John and Chas pull a con involving a crucifix that won't stop bleeding. [*HB* 200]

**2004**

Constantine seeks Papa Midnite's assistance in stopping the Shadow Dog, but the gangster, still angry at past offenses, declines. [*Papa* 3-4] John works with Clarice, Map, Chalice, Alba Suria, Nathan Arcane, and Ravi to kill Kua i'pa, but learns they've been deceived — the Shadow Dog had protected humanity from the Beast of Eden. Without it, the Beast's evil spreads around the globe in a wave of murder and terror. John slits his own throat to fight the Beast on the unconscious plane, then Swamp Thing saves his life. Angie, Chas, and Gemma use magic to make humanity dream of a dog, thereby reviving Kua l'pa to slay the Beast. John survives, but with amnesia. [*HB* 189-193]

*NOTE*: Despite 2005 cover dates and the presence of a "Hillary '08"sign, the PAPA MIDNITE miniseries must occur in 2004, before HB 189-193, since Constantine has already assembled his team in that arc.

**In or Before November 2004**

John meets Rose, a young girl with burn marks who is secretly Nergal's daughter, the demoness Rosacarnis. He brings her to a hospital, where doctors notice his throat wound and admit him to the psychiatric unit. He claims to be Leo Sumner, a name printed on a clipboard. Serial killer Peter Gill, who'd slain the real Sumner, overhears him and becomes intrigued. Rose kills psychiatrist Miles Bradshaw and frames Constantine for the murder, and a manhunt ensues. [*HB* 194]

**November 2004**

Peter Cill plays a cat-and-mouse game with Constantine by murdering Jinx, a homeless man who'd helped John, then taking Chas and Renee hostage and kidnapping their granddaughter Trish. Constantine finds himself in Hell, where Rosacarnis offers to restore his memories in return for a single day of service. He refuses, returns to the mortal plane, and kills Gill before going on the run. [*HB* 195-196]

Chant captures Constantine and invites demons to bid for his soul in an auction. When the First of the Fallen arrives, Chant offers him John as a gift. John pretends to be an artificial construct coached to trick demons, so the First orders Chant dragged to Hell. Rosacarnis repeats her offer when Chant's cultists prepare a pyre for John's execution. This time John accepts, and she creates three illusory realities, in each of which he lives out a life with a different wife — Kit Ryan, Zed, and Angie Spatchcock (all Rosacarnis in disguise) — producing a half-demon child by each: Adam, Saul, and Maria, respectively. [*HB* 197-200]

**Late 2004**

John Sergeant (Sargon the Sorcerer) tries to steal Tefé's powers in order to rule the world. With help from clairvoyant friend Fengis, Constantine reanimates Alec Holland's corpse in order to reunite Holland and Swamp Thing, so that the elemental can save their daughter. Sargon nearly kills John via electrocution. [*STv4* 1-6; *HB* 240]

*NOTE*: SWAMP THING's six-part "Bad Seed" storyline must take place after HB 193, which sets up the loss of the elemental's soul, but STv41 features John with his memory intact. Since his amnesia continues until HB 200, the earliest that "Bad Seed" could occur would be after that issue.

The demon Beroul, tired of waiting for humans to die, speeds up the soul-claiming process by putting people, including Tricia Chandler, into a comatose state. Constantine contacts former acquaintance Fennel, who touches Trish's mind and ascertains that she's in Los Angeles. Chas and John fly to California, where Beroul offers to retum Trish's soul if John slays his enemies for him. Instead, John summons Mictläntecutli, the Aztec death god, and manipulates the deity into destroying the demon. [*Engines*]

**Early 21st Century**

In another reality, as humanity grows wary of metahumans, a conflict arises between traditional heroes and an amoral generation of new vigilantes. John Constantine and Zatanna Zatara have a son in this reality, known as Zatara II. [*Come* 2-4; *Kingdom* 1; *Offspring* 1]

#### 2005

**Before 2005**

A shining spirit appears to Constantine, warning that at midnight a crimson dragon will speak to him, thereby transfiguring his life. Nothing happens, however, and the spirit reappears the next day to sheepishly admit, "Sorry. Wrong chap." On another occasion, John makes Lucifer suck his own penis. [*War Lord*]

**In or Before 2005**

Constantine acquires a bracelet once owned by Aloysius Quinn, made by a Brahmin inmate at the Black Hole of Calcutta to ward off an evil stone. John recognizes its power and stores it in his Streatham lockup. [*HB* 201] John casts a spell to make records of his U.S. imprisonment vanish, along with his Ravenscar psychiatric profile. Peckham Stubbs teaches him the three cardinal rules of poker: "Start late. Build slow. Smell the hate? Time to go." [*HB* 214] He stays up all night grinding fairies to produce a powder capable of summoning Ire, the goddess of wrath. [*HB* 223]

**2005**

A great battle wages between the forces of good and evil in multiple timelines. Constantine, Tefé, Zatanna, Tim Hunter, and other magic users are drawn into the conflict, with lineups and winners varying from one reality to the next. In one iteration, John is critically injured during a magic battle. When Tim and Mister E traverse time to observe the conflict in that reality, Constantine accuses the boy of betraying the magic world by leading the opposition forces. [*Books* I V; *Invitation*]

**Early 2005**

Constantine travels to the Iranian monastery of the Abi Sheikh, a 400-year-old magus, to learn how to control the Great Energies and master astral projection. He remains with the Sheikh for months, and learns that among many universes is one in which he has black hair and a black trenchcoat, has survived lung cancer, and spends much of his time in Los Angeles. [*War Lord*; *Constantine-N*; *Constantine-C*]

*NOTE*: This in-joke references the 2005film Constantine, starring Keanu Reeves, the novelization of which War Lord author John Shirley also penned. Published in February 2005, War Lord begins in April, with no year specified. During Denise Mina's HELLbLAZER run, Constantine remains quarantined in Glasgow from January to June 2006, ruling Out an April 2006 placement. A year has ßnssed since the Red Sepulchre nearly caused the world to end in HB 177-193 (set in 2004), so the book must take place in 2005.

**In or Before April 2005**

Mercury senses something amiss in the Middle East. With Zed unavailable to investigate, she tries (unsuccessfully) to locate Constantine. Merc travels to Jerusalem, where a religious cult, the Servants of Transfiguration (S.O.T.), takes her hostage in Carthaga, near North Africa. A demon-possessed psychic, Dyzigi, uses the jarred soul and physical remains of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele to prevent her from accessing her psychic abilities to contact John. [*War Lord*]

**April 2005**

While practicing out-of-body travel, Constantine's spirit spots Rich the Punk and Chas in a pub. Colonel Futheringham of the Peace Corpses (a team of ghosts atoning for their living actions by resolving conflicts) recruits John's help in stopping the S.O.T from bringing about World War Ill by summoning N'Hept, a demon connected to John's Bronze Age ancestor Konz. With help from Spoink Johnson, a dead California surfer possessing an Islamic terrorist, as well as U.S. Army private Paul Gatewood and Gypsy sorceress Tchalai Dermitzel, John rescues Mercury and thwarts the S.O.T.'s plans. He then returns to London and buys Rich a drink. [*War Lord*]

**Early to Mid-2005**

Gangster Flat Jackie sends three junkies — Michael (Mick), Paxo, and Sunita (Smeet) — to pilfer John's lockup. Paxo pockets a cursed bracelet, causing the trio to be sucked into its stone. John finds his lockup empty and warns Jackie of the relic's effects, but the mobster ignores his warning and faces the same fate. [*HB* 201]

Constantine's demon-spawn begin killing his friends and associates, including Alba Suria, Albert Case, Straff, his mother Betty, Sir Francis Dashwood, Helen Bonaventure, Robbie Brooks, Mange, and Dani Wright's family, and they nearly kill Chas, Map, Angie, and Gemma as well. A large rat (Nergal in disguise) enters Chas' body and warns John of his children's plans. Saul appears to Tony Masters as an angel and orders him to murder Cheryl, so Tony obediently strangles his wife to death. Nergal's influence causes Chas to beat Renee to a bloody pulp. [*HB* 202-206]

*NOTE*: Betty died in HB 118, and was even cremated. During her funeral, John caught a whiffofperfume emanatjngfrom his godchild, Ivy Mae, hinting betty may have somehow come back to life.

Constantine goes to Hell to rescue Cheryl, while Tony commits suicide. Nergal pledges loyalty to the First of the Fallen, who slays Rosacarnis and offers Cheryl a choice: to go home and let Tony endure an eternity of torture alone, or remain in Hell and ease her husband's suffering by enduring half. Cheryl chooses the latter, and the Devil returns John to the living world. Angie later finds John staring at the home of his childhood bully, Kenny Nelson, and tells him to stop wallowing in self-pity. [*HB* 207-213]

**Mid-2005**

Chris Cole, an empath, joins the Oransay Contingent, led by Archbishop Steve Evans, and uses the religious order's empathy engine, causing him to connect with Constantine's subconscious mind. Despite never having met John, Cole paints elements of the mage's past, including Kit Ryan, Chas Chandler, Gary Lester, the Nergal rat, Slag the chimpanzee, and more. [*HB* 219-220]

**July 2005**

Map seeks John's help after having premonitions of London dying in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a religious zealot known as Mr. Lindsay. Constantine's fear for his own mortality overwrites his sensibilities and he tries to flee the city with Map, but he regains his senses and helps his friend back to the subway tunnel. Map experiences London's entire history and grows in power to protect the city throughout time, enabling him to neutralize Lindsay's threat before the bomb can detonate. [*HB* 223]

*NOTE*: This story, though written by Denise Mina and published in 2006, takes place in 2005, during Mike Carey's run, several months before John rejects magic in HB214-215. The setting presumably references July 7, 2005, when coordinated suicide bombings targeted London public-transport commuters.

**Summer 2005**

To mask his presence from the Servants of Transfiguration, Constantine performs conjurations involving two pints of his own blood and a shot glass full of semen. He rekindles his relationship with Tchalai Dermitzel, but she ends their affair after deciding he doesn't take things seriously enough. [*Subterranean*]

**Mid- to Late 2005**

Swamp Thing revokes his influence on Earth and shrinks his consciousness to the size of an insect. Growing ever smaller, he explores microcosmic existences until an avatar of Constantine warns him to proceed no further. The elemental ignores his warning, so the avatar becomes an energy beast and chases him back up the evolutionary ladder. [*STv4* 20] When swamp Thing's shattered mind decides to become whole again, another vision of John welcomes him back to reality. [*STv4* 23]

**December 2005**

Constantine rides the train, exiting at platform 9% for King's Cross. At a pub called The Angel, three illusory charred corpses invite him to attend the 200th anniversary of the Tate Club. A magician, Etheridge, asks John to speak at the celebration, but John declines dismissively. [*HB* 214]

Chas realizes everything wrong in his life is Constantine's fault and beats him soundly, after which police arrest John, not Chas, for disorderly conduct and assault. Clarice bails him out, then John sets fire to his lockup, destroys his magical items and files, and accepts the club 's invitation to speak. Rather than giving an uplifting speech, however, he mocks the magicians, summons a seraph to show each his or her future death, and turns his back on magic — and on Clarice, who condemns his actions. [*HB* 214-215]

#### 2006

**In or Before 2006**

Constantine develops a fondness for Celtic punk band Flogging Molly and reads Robert Fludd's Silentium Post Clamores, Tractatus Theologo Philosophicus, and Utriusque Cosmi, Maioris scilicet et Minoris. John is barred from betting in Garcy's card room on suspicion of cheating — which he is, telepathically — and receives probation after tossing a garbage can through a sweet shop's window. [*Subterranean*]

**January 2006**

The Oransay Contingent sets out to neutralize the Third Place, a realm of brutal numbness for souls without attachments. Steve Evans sends Chris Cole to lure Constantine to their monastery in Glasgow, Scotland. Chris and John become friends, and John senses massive amounts of empathy being generated. Evans says his group strives to save mankind by fostering compassion worldwide, and convinces John to die willingly in order to stall the Master of the Third Place (Azazel) so Evans can start the empathy engine. John consents, seeking an end to emotional pain. [*HB* 216-222]

*NOTE*: Azazel being the Master of the Third Place contradicts earlier and SWAMP THING lore, in which Azazel appears as Hell 's co-ruler.

John is buried alive, causing him to suffocate, but as the engine activates, the rush of empathy causes many people to commit suicide. Azazel reveals that he wants Oransay to succeed, since he'll gain souls by the thousands once the empathic connection overloads mankind. John conjures the Three Lords of the Fallen to save his life, denying Azazel John's soul. Evans digs the mage out of the ground, but their plans have triggered Judgment Day instead of creating a pain-free world. [*HB* 216-222, 226]

*NOTE*: The arrival of the three Fallen is problematic, since the First destroyed the Second and Third in HB 79 and now rules Hell alone. Issue #226 addresses this by revealing their appearance to have been illusory.

**January to June 2006**

An empathy epidemic causes millions to commit suicide upon experiencing others' unbearable memories. The Scottish government erects a protective fence around Glasgow, with a six-month, military-enforced quarantine preventing the afflicted from spreading the infection. Still spurning magic, John refuses to help Evans fix the problem. [*HB* 216-222]

**June 2006**

Chas drives Angie and Gemma past the blockade to convince Constantine to take action. John and Angie enter the Third Place, peer into Azazel's mind, and learn that the demon feeds off the emotions of those in his realm. Evans broadcasts a TV message asking those with high levels of positivity, enlightenment and goodness to enter the city and help shut down the empathy engine. Gemma and Chris Cole fall in love, but once sanity is restored, Cole replaces Azazel as the Master of the Third Place. Chas and John reconcile their differences. [*HB* 224-228]

**Before Mid-2006**

Angie and John end their relationship. [*Chas* 1; *Subterranean*]

*NOTE*: The breakup is in CHAS — THE KNOWLEDGE but is undated. John becomes involved with Maureen Garth in Subterranean, set in mid-2006, with no mention of Angie in that novel. Of course, given John's tendency to cheat on his girlfriends, that point may be moot.

**Mid-2006**

Constantine travels from London to Wales and Ireland, searching for a pagan artifact called the Curse Stone. He runs into Kit Ryan, writes her a letter promising to leave the Hidden World behind ifshe'll take him back, and then discards it. The Lady of Waters, an elemental, holds Chas hostage and forces John to enter a subterranean kingdom, the Underlands, and stop a centuries-old sorcerer — Cloomlord lain Culley (the King Underneath) — from poisoning Europe and enslaving the masses. [*Subterranean*]

*NOTE*: Although dialogue implies the year to be 2004, Subterranean takes place a year after War Lord, which occurs in 2005. Chas recalls having been possessed by Nergal and beating up Renee in HB 206, which also takes place in 2005. As such, the novel must be set in 2006.

John allies with BalfCorunsiggert Stonecracker of the Icy Black Unseen River Which Seeks the North Sea (a troll), Boswell "Bosky" Garth (a fairy-blooded human teen), Philo Scofield (a magician), Fallesco (a poet), and the Lord of Stone (an elemental) to destroy Culley's kingdom and free the enslaved villagers of Tonsell-by-the-Stream. He becomes romantically involved with Bosky's mother Maureen, drowns himself in the River Thames to throw the Servants of Transfiguration off his trail, and goes on a road trip with Maureen after the Lady of Waters revives him. [*Subterranean*]

#### 2007

**Between 2006 and 2008**

Gemma Constantine goes back to calling herself Gemma Masters and begins seeing a therapist. [*HB* 274-275]

**Before 2007**

John has sex with Effra, a Celtic water spirit guarding the River Effra, who "fucks like a fish." [*HB* 238]

**2007**

Three men sideswipe the motorcycle of Constantine's friend Kev, then sit at a bar laughing about it. John makes the men's testicles twist in retaliation. [*HB* 229] After crime boss John "Pearly" Grey is sentenced to prison, his lieutenant, Webb, kills Pearly's daughter Karen. Her ghost visits his cell, and Pearly asks Constantine to avenge her. John tricks Webb into naming men he has killed, enabling the mage to summon their spirits. Terrified, Webb shoots himselfin the face. [*HB* 230-231]

John visits the Ravenscar Hotel — built on the former asylum's site — wins E31.5 million at roulette, and accepts the hotel's deed as payment. After terminating the staff, he erects a mirror-cage to render physical any incorporeal presences. John discovers an "insanity-thing" born of his guilt, then expels the creature from his body in the form of a harmless infant — which he tosses from a nearby cliff. [*HB* 232-233]

Constantine sorts out the haunting of a Chelsea nightclub and tries to convince a fellow patron that her life would be enriched by having sex with him, but she threatens to sic her steroid-using boyfriend on him. Dr. Phoebe Clifton-Avery follows John into the men's room for sex, then leaves with him, abandoning her own engagement party. John warns Phoebe that he's trouble, but she dates him anyway. [*HB* 259]

**2007 to 2009**

John continues to date Phoebe for the next two years. [*HB* 251, 259]

*NOTE*: Several stories set during this span of time feature Constantine having sex with Other women — but by this point, John has shown himself to be a serial cheater.

**In or Before July 2007**

John moves to 41A Electric Avenue, above a halal meat store in Brixton, and lives rent-free after doing the landlord a favor. [*HB* 235-236, 276]

**July 2007**

Constantine visits Gordon Alfred Haine at the Hunger Hill Building housing estate, where the magician's corpse is found in a garbage chute. John's investigation leads him to Lord Calvin Burnham, an aristocrat who runs a private community called Lychgate, built upon ancient Celtic catacombs, the citizens of which possess those who wronged them to exact revenge. As John studies a lodestone, his soul is ejected into a bottle universe containing the astral-projected soul of a 4,000-year-old druidic shaman. [*HB* 234-237]

**Summer 2007**

Journalists for Time Out magazine climb beneath the Vauxhall Bridge to photograph an overlooked River Effra tunnel, which leads them to Shadow London, a realm in which urban legends come to life. Map seeks Constantine's help in closing the gate between the two worlds. [*HB* 238]

**Winter 2007**

Constantine attends the bachelor party of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) prior to the hero's marriage to Dinah Lance (Black Canary). The party is held at the Hall of Justice. [*Wedding*]

#### 2008

**In or Before 2008**

Constantine outwits Lucifer Morningstar, Azazel and Beelzebub, earning the enmity of the three Devils. [*Encyc-DC*]

He meets brothel madam and former Chinese spy Song, who heads up Europe's largest human-smuggling snakehead gangs, running illegal immigrants and asylum seekers out of communist China and North Korea. [*HB* 240]

*NOTE*: The DC Comics Encyclopedia conflates Lucifer, Azazel and Beelzebub with the First, Second and Third Of the Fallen, but the two are separate trios. The novel War Lord also makes the First and Lucifer the same being. In any case, Azazel has been vanquished in the Third Place — and Lucifer quit dominion over Hell in 1992

Edward Devere Marquiss, the English Museum's security director, learns some of John's secrets. Thereafter, he calls the mage for favors from time to time, threatening to turn John over to authorities if he refuses. Constantine meets eccentric Egyptologist Alistair Carswell, who talks to the dead and hopes to find the Elixir of Life. [*HB* 250]

**April or May 2008**

Sudanese war mage Mako travels around Africa feasting on blood and misery to fuel his muti magic. A magiphage, he steals others' powers by devouring their flesh, and vows to find the Laughing Magician of his dreams. An elderly shaman also dreams of the Laughing Magician and sees Constantine's face, but sheds this knowledge to keep Mako from learning John's identity. [*HB* 239]

**May 10, 2008**

On Constantine's 55th birthday, the Sudanese shaman pulls John into his dream and warns him that Mako is hunting for him. He claims to have witnessed John's kin shouting defiance at the gods throughout history. [*HB* 240]

*NOTE*: HB 238 takes place in the summer, whereas issue 240 is set in Mm,L Thus, almost a year must pass during that three-issue span.

**Mid- to Late 2008**

Constantine harnesses the blood, pain and misery of a hospital emergency room to cast a cloaking spell and mask himself from Mako. The war mage murders a dozen members of Song's gang to find him, and John's friend Fengis jumps from a roof rather than give up Constantine's identity. Mako and Burnham ally after the latter reveals that the Laughing Magician isn't John, but his dead twin — the Colden Boy. [*HB* 240-242]

Ellie helps Constantine obtain from the Vatican's Black Library the last known copy of the apocryphal Gospel of Constantine. John replaces the religious text with a phone book. [*HB* 243-244] He frequents the House of Mystery's bar, where he enjoys the chips and often pinches the rear end of bartender Bethany "Fig" Keele. [*Sneak*]

*NOTE*: Phoebe, whom John is still dating, might not appreciate the butt-pin chine.

American filmmakers work on a documentary about Mucous Membrane and the 1978 Casanova Club murders for an episode of The Best Bands You've Never Heard Of After the Norfulthing tortures and kills the film crew, madness plagues England until John returns to Newcastle and sends the terror elemental back toits own realm. [*HB* 245-246]

Constantine dates Ana, a much younger woman. The two search for a DJ called Acheron, which brings them first to Ibiza, Spain, and then to Goa, India. John passes out after ingesting narcotics, and Ana engages in a threesome with a couple her own age, then humiliates him at the airport by loudly announcing her indiscretion. With John out of town, Chas solves a supernatural disturbance on his own, after the demon Tuma'el is freed from entrapment within the London Stone. [*Chas* 1-5]

*NOTE*: John has been dating Phoebe for about a year by this point.

**Winter 2008**

John steals the bones of Saint Agios Nikolaus (the basis for Santa Claus) from the Basilica di San Nicola and grinds them to dust. Mako kills more magicians, and Clarice and Chalice find the Tate Club members torn to pieces. Burnham tries to cheat death by placing himselfin a soul cage, and instructs Mako to fill the cage's void with an opulent palace and a harem of women. John snorts the bone dust, harnesses the widespread belief in Santa to increase his powers and traps Mako in the void with Burnham — sans the harem. [*HB* 247-248]

*NOTE*: Chalice seemingly died in HB 189-190, but he apparently survived. The club's members received premonitions Of their impending deaths in HB 215, but from different causes.

John is pulled through a vortex of light to a visual metaphor of Ravenscar. The Golden Boy awaits, claiming history has not unfolded as intended since the burdens John faced were meant for him. He offers to merge their souls again so they can explore the cosmos together as the Laughing Magician, but John realizes his brother has pulled his strings for decades, ruining his life. He thus declines the offer and performs metaphorical surgery to cut out his twin's soul, severing their astral connection. [*HB* 249]

**In or Before December 2008**

Dave's Poker Bunker bars Constantine from gambling at that establishment due to John's unusually good luck. [*HB* 250]

**December 24, 2008**

On Christmas Eve, Jimmy Przeska pays Constantine to lift a curse preventing the Chicago Cubs from competing in the World Series. John brings a goat to the Billy Goat Tavern, in Chicago, then sacrifices the animal with a broken whisky bottle and tells the patrons to end the curse by eating it. A demon bursts from the animal 's body, but before it can kill John, the customers consume the demon raw. Przeska writes a poem about Constantine titled "All I Goat for Christmas." [*HB* 250]

**December 25, 2008**

Constantine returns to London and has a very busy Christmas. First, the ghost of politician David Brown asks John to solve his murder. The mage learns that two others died at the same time as Brown. When the Queen's Christmas speech airs on TV, John realizes the deaths coincided with the previous year's speech, due to a Celtic curse inserted into the text by a woman named Sheena to eliminate her husband's political rivals. [*HB* 250]

Next, Constantine visits a priest providing relief efforts to children affected by exposure to poisoned ash from an industrial accident. The priest claims winged devils haunt the kids, but John finds no evidence of a hex. He breaks into the factory to scour the company's files, but the owner finds him snooping and two employees work him over. John discerns that the plant is rendering pure evil, and that the creatures are not devils, but rather the essence of good — angels — burned off during rendering. [*HB* 250]

Finally, John stops by Dave's Poker Bunker to buy Chas a Christmas been He witnesses a poker game between Grim Death, a man raising funds to free his daughter from forced prostitution, and Barry the Bandit, a wife-beating gambling addict who owes money to Turkish Tony's Kebab House. [*HB* 250]

**December 31, 2008**

The Scythe of Osiris is stolen from the English Museum, which hires Constantine to investigate. John tracks the suspect, Egyptologist Alistair Carswell, to Cleopatra's Needle, a monument in New York City's Central Park. Carswell kidnaps a baby so he can sacrifice the boy to Osiris and achieve immortality, but John kicks the would-be killer in the testicles and returns the child to his mother. [*HB* 250]

#### 2009

**Before 2009**

Constantine fools a woman into believing he has brought her dead son back to life, then takes her money and vanishes. [*HB* 251]

**In or Before 2009**

Several independent TV producers pitch paranormal investigation shows based on Constantine's reputation. [*Entries*]

John befriends author and activist Emil, who calls him "JC," as well as Essex alchemist Epiphany "Piffy" Greaves, the daughter of London gangster Terry "Tel" Greaves. [*HB* 255-256] John helps Si Hilliard handle a problem involving his landlady, and also turns a man into a goat for messing with the son of Harry McAnespie. [*Mystery* Annual 1]

**January l, 2009**

At the start of the new year, Constantine shares champagne with a woman dressed as a naughty nurse, intending to take her home for sex. [*HB* 250]

*NOTE*: John once again cheats on Phoebe.

**January 2009**

Two youths, Carlos and the Jizzman, try to mug John, so he forces them to hold their blades in each other's mouths, then leaves them crying for their mothers. A woman named Ellie hits John with her car, and he becomes a disembodied spirit as his body is rushed to a hospital. John nearly dies from a brain hematoma, but medics restart his heart. The spirit of Ellie's dead daughter asks him to help her mom; John tells the ghost to say good-bye to her mother, and to let Ellie know he forgives her. [*City* 1]

*NOTE*: CITYOFDEMONS, written in 2008, wasslatedto appear in the monthly HELLBLAZER comic, but was delayed until 2010 and published asa miniseries. The January 2009 date is specified in issue #2. The story can be slotted between Andy Diggle 's and Peter Milligan's runs Jizzman's name changesfrom Jason Coleman to Jeremiah Gladstone during the story.

**January to March 2009**

Constantine is hospitalized for three months of physiotherapy and bone-knitting, during which he flirts with a nurse, Marie Cameron. John's surgeons, Malachy Young and Jonathan Yorke, study his human-demon hybrid plasma and devise a plot to impress Hell by injecting patients with John's blood and turning London into a city of hybrid demons. With Marie's help, John halts their plans, summons demons to drag the two doctors to Hell, and injects each hybrid with an anticoagulant to make it bleed out. Marie turns into a hybrid herself and tries to rape him. He kills her with rat poison, then woos a sexy bartender named Lucy. [*City* 1-5]

*NOTE*: And again, John is unfaithful to Phoebe — with two different women in the same story.

**After March 2009**

Demonic TV producer Matthew Keene lures John into joining the cast of his game show Dark Entries, on which six contestants' souls are locked inside a mansion in Hell and subjected to fear-inducing visions while searching for a room containing a grand prize. After the soul of an empathic woman, Stephanie, is chosen to compete, five others follow her from Limbo and join the cast as well. Keene terrorizes John and the others for the entertainment of demons and the damned alike. [*Entries*]

*NOTE*: Since Constantine is not dealing with the Mako situation, DARK ENTRIES fits well between Diggle 's and Milligan's HELLBLAZER runs.

John and Steph share a sexual relationship before he realizes the cast members are dead. One viewer, cannibal Brian McArthur — whom John had killed for murdering his friend Helen Cawdor — sees Constantine on TV and breaks onto the set seeking revenge, but John kills Brian once more. The mage helps the contestants return to Limbo before escaping back to the living world, but Steph remains in Hell. [*Entries*]

*NOTE*: John's unfaithfulness to Phoebe should come as no surprise.

A friend of Chas mentions that his satellite TV picks up a channel from Hell. Chas asks John to look into it, but he puts it off The Yarls Wood Immigrant Detention Centre also seeks the mage's assistance, after an African witchcraft job unleashes an asylum-seeking hyena-spirit. [*Pandemonium*]

*NOTE*: Like CITY OF DEMONS and DARKENTRIES, PANDEMONIUMfits easily between Diggle's and Milligan's tenures, and John's reluctance to look into a TV channel from Hell ttes in nicely with DARK ENTRIES. Eight years are said to have passed since the Twin Towers' collapse, placing the book in 2009, though John's stated age (54) doesn't jibe, since he was born in 1953.

Uridimmu, a djinn cultist in Nergal's service, is captured by U.S. soldiers, then sedated and locked away after assaulting the troops. The British government forces Constantine to subdue the genie, after assigning Iraqi asset Aseera A1-Aswari to lure him in via sexual means. Iraqi soldiers fatally shoot John and Aseera in the head, and Nergal greets them in Hell. Constantine challenges the demon to a poker game for the souls Nergal has collected, and for his and Aseera's return to the living world. Sumerian goddess Ishtar backs John's bet, and he wins their freedom. [*Pandemonium*]

*NOTE*: John's track record of cheating on Phoebe remains consistent.

**Mid- to Late 2009**

After two years of dating (and cheating on) Phoebe Clifton-Avery, John tells her about his sordid past. Phoebe discovers scabs covering his torso, but fails to identify the infection. Seeking a cure, he visits Julian, an ekimmu (a shape-shifting spirit demon from ancient Babylonia), who gives him 200-year-old skin to rub into the affected areas. From John's scabs grow the misshapen form of a child Phoebe had aborted a decade earlier, haunting her sadly. John destroys the inhuman boy and burns the corpse. He and Phoebe then end their relationship. [*HB* 251-253]

Constantine returns to Liverpool and visits his Uncle Roy, who forgives John for his past transgressions. John encounters former union negotiator Mal Brady, whom he'd hexed in 1996, and who now sports the same boils and scabs. John tries to cure them both during a magc ritual at Roy's house, but his cleansing efforts fail. Roy walks into John's bedroom during the ritual to find both men naked. [*HB* 251-253]

Constantine is visited by Fernby, a ghost wearing a plague doctor mask, who'd killed himself and his family in 1665 to avoid the Great Plague of London. He asks John to move his bones far from theirs so he can rest free from guilt, but John refuses, calling Fernby a coward. John begs Phoebe to give him another shot, but she declines. He half-jokingly threatens to cast a spell to make her love him. [*HB* 254-255]

John procures a love potion from Epiphany Greaves, which he injects into wine for Phoebe, but she has the beverage tested and exposes his plan to drug her. He realizes Julian has gotten him addicted to skin treatments and retaliates by slipping the love potion into the demon's brandy, making Julian fall in love with him. The lovesick demon proposes marriage and vows to reveal his ancient knowledge, but John instead sets fire to Julian's skin supply. [*HB* 256-257]

Suffering from skin withdrawal, Constantine asks Epiphany for a remedy. She suggests bed rest and offers to join him, though he resists her advances. Phoebe takes care of him despite the wine incident, until Julian murders her out of jealousy. John and Piffy dig up Phoebe's grave and try to reanimate her corpse, but the spell goes awry, causing eight generations of Clifton-Averys to rise from their graves. One corpse attacks Epiphany, leaving her in a coma. [*HB* 257-258]

John tries to reach Phoebe's spirit and becomes trapped in Hell, reliving a nightmare version of when the two first met. He encounters the soul of Kathy George in a bathroom stall, eternally listening to serial killer Troy Grenzer describe how he slew her parents. A demon follows John into the living world as he escapes, but a binding spell sends it back to Hell. [*HB* 259]

**October 31, 2009**

On Halloween, John's friend Phil begs him to make his ex-lover Silvie come back to him, but the mage refuses, recalling his own love-potion fiasco. When Phil threatens to expose Constantine's illegal past, John tells Phil to go kill himself. Phil thus hires a professional suicide assistant on the Internet — Julian in disguise — who skins him alive. John stops by Phil's flat to apologize and finds his friend dead. [*Mystery* Annual 1]

**Late 2009**

Terry Greaves orders his mob to locate Constantine. John calls Plates, an elderly forger, who gives him a fake passport under the name John Shand. Terry and his gang beat John to a pulp until he promises to heal Epiphany. After she awakens from her trance, he boards a flight to India to find a way to reanimate Phoebe. [*HB* 260]

**Before 2010**

John has sex with a Sunday-school teacher, and his cunnilingus skills transform her from conservative to promiscuous. [*HB* 271] He learns a spell to make a succubus turn frigid by invoking "the icy power of turquoise Hathor." [*HB* 272]

### 2010s

#### 2010

**In or Before 2010**

Constantine creates a magic circle to summon a devil in the Iraqi desert using Wicca, Kabbalah, Satanism, and wishful thinking. [*HB* 267] Eamon, the Pickled Owl's landlord, fears Constantine for reasons John fails to recall. [*HB* 269]

**2010**

In India, Constantine visits spiritualist Charles Parkhurst-Hawke to learn how to purify himself so the reanimation spell will work. A sadhu (religious ascetic) enlists John's help in destroying Colonel George Burke, a military officer from the British Raj period, now a demon preying on young women. The sädhu promises to reunite John with the love of his life, but instead of reanimating Phoebe, the holy man brings Piffy to India. Julian confesses to Phoebe's murder, and John's name is cleared. [*HB* 261-264]

Faeces McCartney — whose punk-anarcho collective, the Vicious, keeps the 1970s punk rock scene alive — shows Constantine an effigy of Sid Vicious, which plays Sex Pistols music and appears to be possessed by Sid's ghost. John realizes it's not Sid inside the effgy, but an ancient demon with amnesia. Britain's demon-controlled Conservative Party recruits punk rockers, neo-Nazis, and football hooligans to their cause, but the effigy, having embraced punk values, turns against them all. [*HB* 265-266]

Epiphany's former classmate Carew casts the Whispered Curse on Constantine out of jealousy. The hex causes the mage to lose his mind and savagely assault Piffy. John lapses into a catatonic state and is hospitalized long enough to grow a full beard. He develops an overwhelming urge to rip off his own left arm, but finds it too difficult and instead hacks off his thumb. Doctors try to reattach the digit, but his demon blood prevents the grafting from taking hold. [*HB* 267-268]

Rac Shade and Lenny Shapiro free Constantine from the hospital, but Shade holds a grudge about Kathy George's onetime attraction to John. Shade transports him to a swirling void between worlds and begs him to bring Kathy back, but John tells him what happened to Phoebe and advises Shade to let her go. Shade returns him to Epiphany's lab, where John admits he loves Piffy and proposes marriage. She leaves with Shade, however, and visits his home planet, Meta. [*HB* 267-270]

**Circa 2010**

After overdosing on glue, a punk rocker's ghost possesses the glass eye of Pretty Anne, the owner of the Journey's End pub. Constantine exorcises the spirit from the eye, earning Anne's gratitude. [*HB* 298]

**Late 2010**

Joe, a disgraced hairdresser and oracle, gives John a shave and a haircut at England's 7 July Memorial, drawing power from the monument's raw pain to predict the future. John learns that marrying Epiphany is his last chance for happiness, and procures two wedding rings: the Great Beast, based on a design by Aleister Crowley, and a ring carved from the pelvis of a suicidal Danish Satanist. [*HB* 271, 275]

**October 31, 2010**

Hoping to enter the Madness Stream through an act of insanity, John tosses himself out a high window and tries to contact Shade on the way down. Shade ignores him, and he hits the ground. A succubus, Gloria, attempts to seduce John on orders from Nergal. After he rebuffs her advances, she rapes him while he sleeps. Terry offers him a job scaring off Afghan gangsters, but John declines. Piffy is propelled back to 1979, and John opens a portal to rescue her. [*HB* 271-273; *Mystery* Annual 2]

**Late December 2010 or Early 2011**

Piffy and John return from 1979. Nergal forces Chas to hit them with his cab, but John makes the taxi crash. The couple announce their engagement at the hospital, naming Chas their best man. Terry tries to murder the mage, then gives his blessing in return for Constantine solving his Afghan problem. John sends invitations to Gemma, Kit, Angie, Beano, Faeces, his Uncle Roy, and others. His demon doppelgänger notices Beano's invitation after breaking the musician's neck and decides to crash the party. [*HB* 274]

*NOTE*: In HB 276, Epiphany and John return from their honeymoon. A caption sets that issue in 2011, so their wedding likely occurs at the end Of 2010 or in early 2011.

Chas, Faeces and Brendan Finn's ghost take John out for a night of drinking. On the way home, he runs into Kit, and they bicker about past grudges. His demon double beats John to death in order to steal his life, but John's ghost survives. The doppelgänger takes his place at the wedding, then rapes Gemma in the bathroom. John returns to his body, his double is expelled to Hell, and the ceremony is repeated, but Gemma vows revenge for the rape — which she thinks her uncle perpetrated. [*HB* 275]

#### 2011

**2011**

After their honeymoon, John and Piffy return to London and find an eviction notice on his flat. John tries to trick a Brixton landlord into lowering rent by making it appear the fiat is haunted, but the man triples the cost, since people will pay extra to live in a haunted house. Constantine gives financial wizard Marcus Molloy — who'd evicted him — a magic spell to predict and create the future, causing Molloy to slip through cracks in time and enter the hidden sanctuary of druid sorcerer Ceangli. [*HB* 276]

NOTE : A newspaper in this issue is dated December 24, 2011, but that would only make sense if the couple had enjoyed a yearlong honeymoon. Hence, that date must be ignored After feeling phantom pains in the area of his missing thumb, John searches for the digit but is unable to find it. He communes with spirits to ascertain when a fatal car accident will occur so he can steal the thumb of dead driver Tom Gott. Using Hell sulfur and a capsule of God's breath, he then welds Gott's thumb onto his hand. Later, John retrieves his own thumb from an eccentric artist named Leo. Epiphany severs Gott's thumb, and John reattaches the original via magic. [*HB* 277-279]

Gemma hires a coven of witches, led by Tamsin Wembley, to make John pay for hurting her. Tamsin summons a demon to hurt John in return, but he uses a Persian binding spell to suspend the creature between life and death. Gemma learns that it wasn't her uncle who'd raped her, and she and Epiphany rush to save him — though she still blames his lifestyle for her pain. [*HB* 280-281]

Still incarcerated for Phoebe's death, Julian terrorizes the inmates and staff of Belmarsh Prison with horrific visions. Government offcials pressure Terry to send someone inside to deal with the demon, and he asks his son-in-law. Reluctantly, John spends weeks as Prisoner B8076AG. His suicidal cellmate, Billy Draper, claims he dies every single night, and John succumbs to the same terror until pushing Julian down a flight of stairs, after which other inmates beat the Babylonian spirit demon to death. [*HB* 282]

Constantine visits the dying mother of his childhood friend Tim McCabe, who'd vanished in 1968 at age 16. His investigation into Tim's fate leads him to the site of the long-demolished Suicide Bridge, which teens can still find if needed, though jumping from the bridge leaves them trapped between worlds. He returns to Mrs. McCabe and lets her see him as her son before she dies. [*HB* Annual 2011]

*NOTE*: This story, when collected in the graphic novel DEATH AND CIGARETTES, was slotted between HB 292 and 293, both set in 2012. However, Tim vanished in 1968 and has been missing for 43 years, pushing the tale back to 2011. Given the circumstances of John's life, "Suicide Bridge" fits best after issue #282.

Gemma sells John's trenchcoat and begins a sexual relationship with Terry Greaves to spite her uncle. The coat, which has gained an evil sentience due to John's lifestyle, infects other clothing at a launderette, causing customers to commit unspeakable acts. It tries out several new owners (an awkward man called Muzzle, a young magic enthusiast named Georgie, and American serial killer Jerzy) and inspires each to perpetrate evil, before returning to its original owner, Constantine. [*HB* 283-286]

**Before 2012**

Constantine learns muscle and breathing techniques intended for pagan rebirth ceremonies, which can also be used to survive being buried alive. [*HB* 289] Several individuals obsessed with John create websites devoted to him. [*HB* 296] Gemma is busted for possession of cannabis. [*HB* 293]

#### 2012

**2012**

John journeys to Hell to rescue his sister. He wagers his soul to the First of the Fallen if he can't convince Cheryl to move on to Heaven, and the First ups the ante, adding Epiphany's soul to the pot. John finds Cheryl cryng, guilt-ridden at having abandoned a child at age 14, and promises to find her lost son if she'll leave Hell. Returning to Earth, he contacts Angie Spatchcock, who helps him hunt down his demon doppelgänger for raping Gemma. [*HB* 287-291]

John and Epiphany watch the movie The House of Wolves, which reminds them of an incident a decade prior, when she tried to heal him after a werewolf scratch — though neither knew the other was involved at the time. [*HB* 292] Protester Geoffrey Smyth is transported to a hellish fairy realm, where a demon rips him to pieces and leaves him in agony. A police constable blackmails Constantine into ending the man's pain. [*HB* 293]

Declan Brady, the brother of Cheryl 's longlost son Finnbar Brady, uses dark magic to frame Finn for murder, in order to destroy the Constantine legacy. He leaves bloody clues for John, who seeks out his nephew in Ireland, mistaking Finn for the serial killer. John gets to know Finn and his wife Sia, trains his nephew in the rudiments of magic, and realizes Finn would be better off avoiding their bloodline's usual path. Following Declan's demise, Cheryl 's spirit tells John to stay away from her son. [*HB* 293-297]

#### 2013

**In or Before 2013**

Constantine befriends Stephens, a crematorium worker who collects dead insects and rarely washes. Despite the man's unpleasant stench, John considers him reliable. [*HB* 298]

**2013**

Finn's obsession with the occult erodes his marriage, and Sia leaves him. The Fates decide Constantine must die, and after dreaming of his own death, John (now age 60) plots to cheat the grave. The Fates manipulate Gemma into killingJohn, but one of Terry's thugs murders him first. Finn decides to kill him as well, but sets aside his anger upon hearing that his uncle is already dead. [*HB* 298-299]

Stephens cremates a body double at Constantine's funeral, then Epiphany finds her husband waiting for her at home. She realizes it's not John, but Julian in disguise, and kills the demon with a bottle, sending him to Hell. Piffy and Finn begin dating — despite her being his aunt by marriage. [*HB* 298-299]

Three weeks later, Constantine uses magic and cigarettes to bring himself back to life. John convinces the First of the Fallen to kill Terry, then urges Finn to leave the dark arts behind and rebuild his family. He brings Epiphany to an Irish cottage to start anew, but leaves during the night so no one else can be hurt because of him. John visits his niece, hands her a poison syringe dart, and gives her the choice of executing him or letting him leave in peace. As Gemma pulls the trigger, John vanishes before her eyes. [*HB* 300]

In an alternate reality, Constantine is remanded to Greenhill, a state-run hospital, for refusing to set aside his self-destructive behavior and accept sanitized societal changes imposed by the Council of the Rising Generation. [*HB* 36]

In another timeline, he records a Secret Police section chief and an archbishop performing a naked goat dance at his 60th birthday party, then keeps the tape for blackmail purposes. [*Blood* 2] And in various realities in which John does not die at age 60, Gemma faces incarceration at a lunatic asylum, rehabilitation, suicide by wrist-slitting, or addictions. [*HB* 300]

#### 2014-2019

**In or After 2013**

Deluded into believing himself an incarnation of Nekron, Lord of the Unliving, Swamp Thing tries to blanket the world in destruction and decay. Once reunited with Alec Holland's soul, the elemental repairs the damage and vows to protect the Green once more — but Holland and Swamp Thing are soon separated yet again, and the Green chooses Constantine as its next host. [*Brightest* 24; *Aftermath* 2]

*NOTE*: BRIGHTEST DA Y and its tie-ins were published in 2011 as a follow-up to BLACKEST NIGHT, two years before HB 300 hit stores. However, for John 's history to play out as published, these tales must occur after HB 300, since BRIGHTEST DAY led to the universe being revamped as the New 52.

Swamp Thing, sans Holland's soul, murders oil company executives plotting to relocate their dumping ground to bypass environmental safety restrictions. Constantine breaks through police tape, views the bloody crime scene, lights a cigarette and muses that something about the swamp god has changed. [*Brightest* 24; *Aftermath* 1]

*NOTE*: Despite being 60 years old at the time of HELLBLAZER's cancellation, Constantine is drawn here as a young man, presaging the New 52 reboot. Chas Chandler is similarly drawn younger.

Swamp Thing lures John to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and tries to strangle him in vines. After Chas frees him, Constantine notices plant life growing on his hand and seeks Batman's help in finding a cure. John renders Alfred Pennyworth unconscious to get the hero's attention and appears uninvited in the Batmobile. When John lights a cigarette, Batman tosses him onto the street, then punches him for calling Swamp Thing a killer. To prove his clam, John brings Batman into the Green, where the elemental attacks. Batman calls Zatanna, but her efforts to heal John fail. [*Aftermath* 1]

*NOTE*: Batman is well aware Swamp Thing is capable Of great destruction, given his Gotham City attack in STv2 52-53. Moreover, since John left his loved ones behind in HB 300 for their Own safety, Chas should no longer be with him at this point.

Batman finds no match to the growth 's molecular structure and refers Constantine to Superman. As John's flight lands in Metropolis, plant tendrils engulf the craft. Superman rescues the passengers and agrees to help despite distrusting John. He flies the mage to Star City's forest, where Constantine awaits the elemental inside a magic circle. Swamp Thing breaks through, and John realizes the creature plans to absorb his soul. Superman frees John and burns away the plant material on his hand. [*Aftermath* 2]

Constantine seeks Madame Xanadu's help in reuniting Alec Holland and the elemental. The mystic performs a séance, enabling John to consult with Deadman. A vision from the Green leads John to Holland 's old lab, where Un-Man genius Cranius maps Alec's mind so LexCorp can control elementals. John decides to kill Holland and kick-start his elemental rebirth, but Batman refuses to let him murder an innocent person. John allows Holland to choose his own fate, and Alec opts to remain human. [*Aftermath* 3]

Barry Allen (the Flash) inadvertently alters his universe while traveling back in time to prevent his mother's death. When Allen tries to run back into the timestream to restore his world, he discovers that his reality split into three timelines a long time ago. Pandora has Allen make the three timelines become one again, resulting in a new universe with greatly altered histories for its inhabitants, including Swamp Thing and John Constantine. [*Flashpoint* 5]

*NOTE*: FLASHPOINT marked the 52 continuity, with DC's mainstream timeline, the Vertigo universe, and the WildStorm universe merging into a single reality. Ever since FLASHPOINT, all stories have occurred in a timeline with different character backgrounds, leading to DC's Rebirth event. In this new timeline, John has starred in JUSTICE DARK CONSTANTINE, CONSTANTINE: THE HELLBLAZER and THE HELLBLAZER and has guest-starred in a variety of other titles — none of which are chronicled here.

**After 2013**

Constantine relocates to Liverpool and lives out a solitary life, spending his time at a pub called the Long Journey's End. [*HB* 300]

**Circa 2013 to 2033**

In one possible future, Constantine grows increasingly decrepit and develops lung cancer, yet refuses to halt his self-destructive behavior. Society becomes increasingly sanitized, but John remains disharmonious, sexist, negative, and tobacco-addicted. Healers try to cure him by having him sit in a pyramid for weeks, but he scoffs at the idea. When children visit him to lift his spirits, John tells them philosophically retrograde nursery rhymes, driving them to psychosis. [*HB* 36]

**2018**

In another parallel reality, Constantine's stillborn twin — alive and a rock star in that universe — remains psychically linked to John in his dreams, enabling him to follow his brother's exploits. The Golden Boy notes many parallels between their lives and wonders if his occultist doppelgänger misses him. [*Sting*]

**2019**

In a timeline in which Great Britain becomes a fascist society, Constantine, at age 66, befriends 19-year-old Daljit "Dolly" Smith, the proprietor of the Body Shoppe, a clinic for London's poor in a filthy ghetto called No-Co. John harbors a crush on Dolly, but she (a lesbian) keeps him at arm's length. [*Blood* 1-2]

### 2020s-2090s

**2025**

In that same timeline, faith in the British monarchy crumbles. With no heirs to succeed King Charles Ill, the aristocratic elite create a soap opera, Bloodline, revealing the existence of the prince's illegitimate daughter — Dolly — in order to unite a popular coalition under a new queen. Constantine, age 72, has a one-night stand with Dolly but is too drunk to remember, and she bears his child. Dolly is forced to take part in the TV program, but John and a band of No-Go desperados rescue her. After she gives birth to John's child, Dolly and her lover, Big Sis, raise the baby together. [*Blood*]

**Before 2030**

John Constantine's relatives include a psychic assassin born on Earth's moon, a priest in Clapham, England, and two emperors — one a black African and the other a Christian stooge. [*HB* 40]

**2030**

In a possible future, the Golden Boy (a.k.a. the Magus) resides in a church tower known as Ravenscar, with Ben Cox, Gary Lester, Zed, Errol, Marj, Mercury, Martin Acland, Ritchie Simpson, and Astra Logue as his devout followers. At age 77, he fathers twins by Mercury's granddaughter Mary. Plagued by visions of his sickly, stillborn brother, the Golden Boy journeys into his own mind to meet the "other" John and offers to switch places. Instead, they return to their metaphorical womb and alchemically merge into a single being, enabling both to live. [*HB* 40]

**2033**

Decrepit and toothless at age 80, an alternate Constantine is evicted from Greenhill for rejecting clean living. The Council of the Rising Generation urges him to accept euthanasia, promising soothing music and sexual gratification during his final moments, but he takes his chances in the savage outside world. John searches for Mercury (now 60 years old), hoping she and her band of boat-gypsies can save him from misery, but a pack of hellish hounds chases him over a bridge, and John jumps to his death in shark-infested waters. [*HB* 36]

### In or After 22nd Century

**Late 22nd Century**

Making his way back home from the end of time, Mister E discovers New York City in ruins and finds Pyotr Konstantin, John's immortal Cossack ancestor, living alone, save for a liquor bottle nicknamed Vodka Vodkavitch. Mister E shows John, Doctor Occult, and the Phantom Stranger this post-apocalyptic future, then brings them to the late 17th century to figure out what caused it. [*Trenchcoat* 1-2]

**6009**

In a hypothetical future, John Constantine turns 4,056 years old. [*HB* 35]

**The End of Time**

With the universe about to end, Mister E and Tim Hunter (visiting from the past) find a void containing a single crystalline orb called Terminus, inhabited by archetypal beings based on the Major Arcana tarot card deck. The Fool (Jack) resembles John Constantine but is too busy acting like a clown to teach Tim about magic. [*Books* IV]