Introduces (issue #1) John Constantine, Dr. Occult, Mister E, the phantom stranger, Timothy Hunter, Yoyo the owl, Lucifer, Uriel, Raphael,
Michael, Saraquel, Gabriel, Raquel, Arion (Lord of Atlantis), Merlin, Nimue, Iason (also known as Jason Blood), Kent Nelson (and Dr. Fate),
Zatara, and Sargon the Sorcerer; (issue #2) Boston Brand (also known as "Deadman"), Madame Xanadu, Jim Corrigan, the Spectre, Baron Winter,
Dr. Terry Thirteen, Zatanna, Tala, Tannarak, and Felix Faust; (issue #3) Rose Spiritus, Snout, Glory, Thomas the Rhymer, Baba Yaga, Hamnet
Shakespeare, Nightmaster, Amethyst (Princess of Gemworld), Etrigan, Cain and Abel, Dream; (issue #4) Jinx, Kamara, Ghast, Captain Marvel,
Klarion the Witch Boy, Black Bison, Eclipos, Tefe Holland, Vandal Savage, Jonah Hex, Tommy Tomorrow, OMAC, Night Girl, Tellus, Element
Lad, the White Witch, Dream Girl, Tharok, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Mano, the Persuader, Saturn Girl, the Emerald Empress, Validus, a
Dominator, Darkseid, Mordru the Merciless, and Dea th.
The original Books of Magic miniseries is available in trade paperback form for about $13.
There are fabulous annotations to this series already, compiled by David Goldfarb. If anyone finds anything to say about how the original
miniseries relates to the current Rieber series, I'll be happy to add in some annotations to the Gaiman annotations here, but I doubt we'll come up
with much. Mr. Goldfarb seems to have covered all the bases and then some.