- ABOUT.

Vertigo is an imprint of DC Comics and operates under the Vertigo name in order to separate itself from the more mainstream, family-friendly DC Comics. Vertigo publishes stories aimed at a more mature audience. Many of the comics published by Vertigo contain mature themes, including violence (more realistic than is found in conventional comics), frank presentations of substance abuse, and other controversial topics. Karen Berger is the executive editor of the imprint.

- HISTORY.

Vertigo was founded in the wake of DC's successful "mature" comics of the late 1980s, beginning with Saga of the Swamp Thing and continuing with Hellblazer, The Sandman, and Moonshadow. In 1993, Karen Berger and DC officially founded the Vertigo line to attract writers who wanted to publish "mature" comics of this sort, without having to worry about offending parents and young children. In an era when almost all of the big names in comics were artists, and most companies were pushing the art over story (such as the well known Image Comics), Vertigo was unique in pushing writers to the forefront.

Although many of the initial Vertigo publications were set in the DC Universe (Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol, Animal Man, The Books of Magic, The Sandman, etc.), progressively they have been disconnected from the DCU, leaving the "superheroes" out. Because of this, the continuity with the regular DC titles is unclear, and sometimes contradictory. In addition to these older titles that were set under this print, a plethora of new titles was introduced without any constraints as to when or where the plot happens.

Vertigo has proven influential on the comic book industry, particularly because of its success with sales of trade paperbacks and graphic novels. Collections of Sandman continued to sell on a regular basis long after the original issues had become scarce, prompting Vertigo to reprint more and more of its library in the paperback format. This had the additional effect of penetrating the bookstore market and extended the "shelf life" of these comics from one month to virtual infinity. Some series, such as Transmetropolitan, did not always sell well as serialized monthly issues but continued to be published because DC/Vertigo was confident that trade paperback sales would be strong. Due partially to Vertigo's success with the format, by the mid-2000s nearly every publisher was collecting the majority of its serialized comics into trade paperbacks.

Since its inception, Vertigo has retroactively claimed many mature DC books that were published before its founding in 1993, such as Swamp Thing, Animal Man, and V for Vendetta. Transmetropolitan was initially launched under DC's short-lived Helix imprint but soon switched to Vertigo. Even a collection of the best of House of Mystery appeared under the Vertigo imprint.

(Taken from the Wikipedia.)

(you may ask why I took this from Wiki, it's simple, It's not trying to peach about it, Just stating the history, you want me to preach and I'll get on a soup box in front of a bunch of convention goes and speak about how much I adore the Vertigo titles and so on and so forth, but for now I’ll leave that for another place at another time, take care.)





VERITGOS TITLES:

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100 Bullets.
100%
2020 Visions.

A
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Accelerate.
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade.
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock.
American Century.
American Freak: A Take of the Un-Man.
American Virgin.
Angel and the Ape.
Angel Town.
Animal Man.

B
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Battleaxes.
Barnum.
Beware the Creeper.
Bigg Time.
Bite Club.
Black Orchid.
Blood: A Life.
Blood: A Tale.
Blood and Shadows.
Blood and Water.
Books of Fearie, The.
Books of Magic, The.
Books of Magick: Life During Wartime.
Brave Old World.
Breathtaker.

C
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Cairo.
Can't Get No.
Chiaroscuro: the Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci.
Childrens Crusade, The.
Codename Knockout.
Congo Bill.
Cowboy Wally Show, The.
Cruel and Unusual.
Crusades.

D
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Deadboy Detectives, The.
Deadenders.
Deadman.
Death: At Deaths Door.
Death: The High Cost of Living.
Death: The Time of Your Life.
Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold.
Dhampire: Stillborn.
DMZ.
Dog moon.
Doom Patrol.
Dreaming, The.

E
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Eaters, The.
Egypt.
El Diablo.
Enigma.
Extremist, The.

F
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Fables.
Faith.
Faultlines.
Fight for Tomorrow.
Filth, The.
Fountain, The.
Finals.
Flex Mentallo.
Flinch.
Four Horsemen.

G
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Gangland.
Ghostdancing.
Gifts of the Night.
Girl.
Girl Who Would be Dead, The.
Goddess.
Grip: The Strange World of Men.

H
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Heart of the Beast, The.
Heartland.
Heart Throbs.
Heavy Liquid.
Hellblazer.
Hell Eternal.
History of Violence, A.
House of Secrets.
House on the Borderland, The.
Human Target, The.
Hunter, The Age of Magic.

I - L
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I Die at Midnight.
I Paparazzi.
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe.
Its A Bird
Industrial Gothic.
Invisibles, The.
Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such.
Jonah Hex: Shadows West.
Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo.
Jonny Double.
Junk Culture.
Kid Eternity.
Kill Your Boyfriend.
King David.
Last One, The.
Losers, The.
Loveless.
Lucifer.

M
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Menz Insana.
Mercy.
Midnight, Mass.
Millennium Fever.
Mister E.
Minx, The.
Mr. Punch.
Mnemovore.
Mobfire.
Moonshadow.
Muktuk Wolfsbreath, Hardboild Shaman.
My Faith in Frankie.
Mythos: The World Tour.

N - R
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Names of Magic.
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess Stardust.
Neil Gaimans Midnight Days.
Neil Gaimans Neverwhere.
Nevada.
Otherworld.
Orbiter.
Originals, The.
Outlaw Nation.
Preacher.
Pride & Joy.
Proposition Player.
Rogan Gosh.

S
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Sandman, The.
Sandman Presents, The.
Sandman Mystery Theatre.
Scarab.
Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight.
Sci-Spy.
Seaguy.
Sebastian O.
Seekers into the Mystery.
Sgt, Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place.
Seven Miles a Second.
Shade, The Changing Man.
Shadows Fall.
Skin Graft: the Adventures of a Tattooed Man.
Strange Adventures.
Streets.
Swamp Thing (Saga of)

T
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Tank Girl: Apocalypse.
Tattered Banners.
Tell Me, Dark.
Terminal City.
Testament.
The Mystery Play.
The System.
The Trenchcoat Brigade.
The Quitter.
Totems.
Transmetropolitan.
Trigger.

U
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Uncle Sam.
Unknown Soldier.
Unseen Hand, The.
User.

V
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Vamps.
Vertical.
Vertigo Jam.
Vertigo Pop! Bangkok.
Vertigo Pop! London.
Vertigo Pop! Tokyo.
Vertigo Rave.
Vertigo Visions: Doctor Occult.
Vertigo Visions: Doctor Thirteen.
Vertigo Visions: The Geek.
Vertigo Visions: Phantom Stranger.
Vertigo Visions: Prez - Smells Like Teen President
Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk.
V For Vendetta.

W - Z.
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War Stories.
Weird War Tales.
WE3.
Why I Hate Saturn.
Winters Edge.
Witchcraft.
Whiching, The.
Whiching Hour, The.
Y: The Last Man.
You Are Here.
Zatanna: Everyday Magic.

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Marvels Adult Themed Comic List. (In no Order)

The Punisher.
Alias.
Black Widow: Pale Little Spider.
Cage.
Doctor Spectrum.
The Eternal.
Fury.
Howard The Duck.
Supreme Power.
Supreme Power: Hyperion.
Supreme Power: Nighthawk.
The Hood.
Thor: Vikings.

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Main Stream Dark-side.

Daredevil.
Ghost Rider.
The Authority.
Planetary.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Global Frequency.
WildC.A.T.S/Wildcats/Wildcats V.3.

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Other.

30 Days of Night.
The Walking Dead.
Judge Dredd.
Lobo.
Evil Ernie.
Sin City.
Grendel.
The Creeper.
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
(hell)Spawn.
Popbot.
The Crow.
The Maxx.

(List Not Complete and probably never will be a complete list.)