Issue 65

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August 1984: Any Thing Done For the First Time Unleashes a Demon

Issue 65
President	Dave Sim
Background Artist (uncredited)	Gerhard
Publisher	Deni Loubert
Assistant to the Publisher	Karen McKiel
Cover Separation	Mark Spencer
Circulation	21,000
Church & State I
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1 Issue Summary
2 Characters
3 Locations
4 Artist Notes
5 Quotes
6 Back up material

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Issue Summary

Cerebus has moved "to a hotel on the east wall" and has hired mercenaries including Bear and Boobah as a personal guard. Powers sends Posey back to Cerebus, knowing Cerebus is likely to kill him. Instead Cerebus "arranges" Posey's allegiance to Cerebus. Most Holy, as Cerebus calls himself, goes to a room at the front of the hotel to make a speech to the crowd outside. He casually consigns the room's occupant to an "eternity hip-deep in molten lead" on the way to the window. After making a MOST unusual speech Cerebus claims that he'll put in a good word with Tarim for anyone who gives him all their gold.

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Characters

Bear (first actual appearance; last seen in The First Invention of Armour; next appearance in issue 66)
Boobah (first appearance; next appearance in issue 66)
Bishop Powers (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 66)
Cerebus (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 66)
Lord Draser (first appearance; next appearance in issue 66)
Mrs. Henrot-Gutch (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 66)
Red Sophia (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 67)
Posey (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 67)
Weisshaupt (last seen in issue 64; next appearance in issue 66)

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Locations

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Artist Notes

This issue is the first of 236 consecutive issues on which Gerhard collaborated with Dave Sim. Gerhard is uncredited, but did the backgrounds (as he did on all subsequent issues), which consist mostly of bricks.

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