a b Gross, Peter( w)."A Day, a Night and a Dream, Part Two" The Books of Magic,no.67(December 1999).DC Comics. At Los Angeles airport, he meets the succubus Leah who has moved to the city to become a model. She convinces Tim to travel with her, and accompanies him out into the desert on a camping trip. In the night, Leah disguises herself as Molly and tries to sleep with Tim: he sees through the deception but tells her that if she had come to him as herself, he wasn't sure what he would have done. Tim kisses Leah, and the two continue where they left off. In the morning, the two become trapped in the world of a dying mermaid and Leah has to take the mermaid's place to save Tim. Tim wakes in the real world and continues on his journey, without realizing what has happened to Leah. [22] The original mini-series concentrated on Timothy Hunter's introduction to the world of magic by the Trenchcoat Brigade (the Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, Mister E, and John Constantine), who are aware that the boy has the potential to be the world's greatest magician but that his allegiance to good or evil is undecided. Equally, he could turn from the world of magic completely and be lost to either side. The Trenchcoat Brigade see it as their duty to resolve the uncertainty around Tim's fate one way or another.

Cosmic Egg: This is how worlds are born. Tim restores the dying realm of Faerie by finding a world egg to hatch a new Faerie.This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( March 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Another ongoing series called Hunter: The Age of Magic (25 issues) followed shortly after the end of this series. It ran from September 2001 to September 2003, and told of his graduation and what happened to him afterwards. The books begin with four famous magicians from DC's history meeting Timothy Hunter, a poor adolescent British boy with messy, dark hair and coke-bottle glasses, who is destined to be the supreme avatar of magic of the age, on par with Merlin in the Dark Ages. They show him everything they know about magic, and at first he refuses the call but then accepts. Everyone and everything he meets wants to use Tim for their own purposes or kill him (except, obviously, Death herself), including demons, fairies, and angels. Tim's friends and family are targeted by supernatural forces beyond imagining in attempts to get Tim to agree to a Magically-Binding Contract to own his soul and power. And everything gets really, really weird. Doctor Occult turns into Rose Psychic while in Faerie (previous versions had her as his assistant, not literally his other half).

Magic Wand: Tim makes one out of a screwdriver. May or may not be an intentional Shout-Out to a certain Sonic Screwdriver. Bad Future: Mister E takes Timothy to see one in which he has become a nigh-invincible evil archmage slaughtering most of the world's greatest practitioners of magic in an epic battle that will cause magic to be largely forgotten for centuries. Leblanc, David (January 29, 1999). "The Comic Book Net Electronic Magazine". Comic Book Shopper. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Timothy Hunter is a normal boy, or so it appears. Four men approach him one day - John Constantine, Doctor Occult, Mr. E and Stranger.The superficial similarities are striking - but no more so than any number of other stories in the genre. As Gaiman has repeatedly said, he and Rowling were merely drinking from the same well. In fact, there was even a story in 2000AD (called the Journals of Luke Kirby) which came out a few years before The Books of Magic, which was extremely similar to both the BoM and Harry Potter. This is a genre - and Gaiman and Rowling are both playing with the conventions of the genre, to different ends. [12] Lighter and Softer: While it does have some decidedly dark undertones and its fair share of gruesome scenes, Books of Magic is on the whole one of the gentler, more lighthearted Vertigo titles of its time. This is especially noticeable when you compare it to the two comic series it was most closely related to, The Sandman (1989) and Hellblazer. Wizards' War: The last issue of the original mini briefly depicts a Bad Future where Tim went evil and sparked off a war involving pretty much every magic-user in the setting. After the four-part series, Tim got a continuation of the title written by John Ney Rieber, focusing much more upon himself and the forces dealing with him rather than the DC Universe (this was around the same time the Vertigo line was distancing itself from stuff in the DCU). Unlike, say, Harry Potter, Tim does not immediately start taking magic lessons; instead, he wanders around, wondering what to do with his life now that it has irrevocably become more bizarre, and dealing with all sorts of hard situations.

It is up to Tim to choose his destiny. Great power comes at great cost and it may be more than he is willing to pay. In Book III: The Land of Summer's Twilight (artwork by Charles Vess) he visits Faerie, Gemworld, Skartaris, King Arthur's Camelot, Hell, and the other mystical realms with Doctor Occult.The Chosen One: Tim has the potential to become the most powerful magician of the modern age, a fact that results in an awful lot of people and creatures wanting to control or kill him. In Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth (artwork by John Bolton), Tim is introduced to the history of the DC Universe by the Phantom Stranger.

DC Comicsoriginallytasked writer J.M. DeMatteis to come up with a new series that would focus on DC various magical properties. Although the project initially fell through, DC later approached Neil Gaimanto pen the mini-series. Gaiman introduced the young boyTim Hunteras his protagonist and had four mysticsJohn Constantine,Phantom Stranger,Dr. OccultandMister Elead Tim on a journey acrros time and space while meeting almost every magical or supernatural character in the DC Universe. Yarrow: Can this truly be your bedchamber? Never have I seen so small a space so remarkably disarrayed! Fish out of Water: Happens to several people when they cross over into other worlds, but it's clearest with Iolanthe, who doesn't know much about how mortals operate when she decides to stay on Earth. What? Real magic? As in great storytelling, great art, a big portion of myth and a much more huge portion of fascination? You bet! Missing Mom: A big driving motivation for Tim here is to find out exactly what happened to his mother.

a través de estos viajes van a hacer aparición varios de los magos, hechiceros y algunos otros personajes del universo dc/vertigo comics,como por ejemplo : Doctor Fate, los eternos(sandman), zatanna, Sargon etc. Esto probablemente sea mas apreciado y disfrutado por los lectores que estén mas empapados en dicho mundo. The entire point of these trips were to show Tim the price of magic and to, hopefully, have him choose the side of Light instead of Darkness. A magical romp through magical realms this story shines when the realms of magic are explained by the four famous characters. The artwork is superb throughout and truly helps to craft the image. This book is so well done that even the lettering is subtly different depending on the scene. The story? Utterly magnificent! Perhaps my favorite parts were the Constantine trip and the Dr. Occult trip. I shall not spoil any more of this truly amazing work. The fact that Tim can choose to believe in magic, or not, and that it always has a steep price is the central message. The viewpoints of the characters is also a pleasure, though my favorite is John Constantine. There is a scene in a mage bar called "Bewitched" that is classic JC..and yes JC is a badass. Deity of Human Origin: Queen Titania was originally a human peasant girl during the Middle Ages. She is such a powerful sorceress that to all practical intents and purposes she is a Physical God and appears to be The Ageless. Titania easily outmatches most mythological gods in the modern age, as she does not depend on worship for power. The supernatural community in general simply regards her as the godlike Queen of Faerie.