When Evey finds herself abandoned by V and alone in the streets, she is taken in by an older man, Gordon Deitrich, who is involved in organized crime, and who becomes her lover. Evey is stricken with guilt over her complicity in the bishop's murder, and she realizes that V is far more sinister than she suspected. When Evey offers to repay V's kindness, he dresses her up as a young girl and sends her to distract Anthony James Lilliman, a pedophile bishop whom he has targeted for revenge. V comforts her and she becomes dependent on him for safety and security. Evey comes to confide in V, telling him about the death of her parents. V takes Evey to his underground hideout, which he refers to as the "Shadow Gallery." He blindfolds her so she cannot see where they were going. As the man is about to rape her, she is saved by a mysterious man in a Guy Fawkes mask and black cloak, calling himself " V." V lets Evey watch him blow up the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. The first potential customer she approaches turns out to be a Fingerman, a member of Norsefire's secret police, working on a vice squad sting operation. Struck by poverty, Evey becomes a prostitute. Sent to a youth hostel, she is forced to work packing matches into boxes for shipment, and then begins working at a munitions factory. As a child, she lost both her parents her mother died following a nuclear war in the early 1980s, and her father was arrested and executed by the Norsefire, the fascist dictatorship that seized power during the war's aftermath, because of his socialist political leanings. CGC census 4/22: 401 in 9.8, none higher.Evey Hammond grew up on Shooters Hill in south-east London. V For Vendetta #1 (DC, 1988) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages. David Lloyd wraparound cover and art. It wasn't that long ago – okay maybe, before the film – V For Vendetta #1 (DC, 1988) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages, Heitage AuctionsĪnd now a copy of that first DC Comics issue is up for auction from Heritage Arts Auctions today, CGC slabbed at 9.8 and currently entertaining bids of $134, with several hours still to go.
It was also written at a time when nationalism was on the rise, a government was getting more controlling of society and war was back on the agenda.
A majorly political comic book in all manners of the word, it intentionally set Anarchy and Fascism as two opposite points of view, with any other position as an unworkable compromise that collapses under its own contradictions. The book follows two protagonists, the terrorist V dressed like Guy Fawkes, and a protégée he takes on after saving her from assault, Evey Hammond.
V for Vendetta is a 1984-inspired dystopian comic book set in the nineties, set in a United Kingdom that has elected a fascist dictatorship that followed a nuclear war.
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