Dates
- Cover date
- January 1994
- On sale
- January 20, 1994
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
Story arc: The Children's Crusade (Vertigo)
This is part 2 of 2. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Black Orchid Annual #1
- The Children's Crusade #2
Creators
Stories
- Chapter One: In Which Avril Mitchell Learns the Story So Far · 4 pages
Charles and Edwin update progress to Avril.
- Chapter Two: In Which the High Council Does Not Reveal Its Secret Plan · 7 pages
High council of Free Country banishes Junkin Buckley.
- Chapter Three: In Which Timothy Hunter Is Formally Welcomed to Free Country · 3 pages
Tim Hunter jumps into Free Country.
- Chapter Four: In Which We Visit the Beach · 3 pages
We see Oliver Mitchell, Avril's brother.
- Chapter Five: In Which We Learn Something of the Language of Flowers · 4 pages
Tim and Suzy meet and look for a way out of Free Country.
- Chapter Six: In Which the Pigeon Is Taken · 5 pages
Charles and Edwin jump into Free Country and meet Tim and Suzy; they find Oliver Mitchell.
- Chapter Seven: In Which the Plot Thickens · 9 pages
The gates to Free country are closed. Charles, Edwin, Tim, and Suzy try escaping from Free Country. Maxine takes the gang to the high council.
- Chapter Eight: In Which Maxine Ponders on Budding · 9 pages
Maxine creates a twin of herself that she sends back to the real world.
- Chapter Nine: In Which We Pause to Reflect · 12 pages
The council tries to get Tim to open the gateway. Charles expels the old monk; Tim, Charles, and Edwin return to real world.
- Epilogue One: In Which Maxine Wakes to a Bright New Day · 1 pages
Maxine decides to leave twin alone.
- Epilogue Two: In Which, Some Days Afterward, Our Heroes Seek Their Just Reward · 2 pages
Charles and Edwin want their money from Avril for finding her brother.
Publisher’s description
Continued from Arcana Annual #1. In the conclusion of the monumental Vertigo Annuals event, the plans of the strange children of Free Country come to fruition and the fate of that mystical land is decided. The children of the Vertigo titles will all be changed by their experiences...and one will not return.
Reprinted in
Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade (2015), The Books of Magic Omnibus (2020), The Dead Boy Detectives Omnibus (The Sandman Universe Classics) (2023)