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unusual facts about Vertigo



Adventures in the Rifle Brigade

Adventures in the Rifle Brigade is the name of two Vertigo comic book limited series created by writer Garth Ennis and artist Carlos Ezquerra.

Alternobaric vertigo

In aviation and underwater diving, alternobaric vertigo is dizziness resulting from unequal pressures being exerted between the ears due to one Eustachian tube being less patent than the other.

Aristeas

This story appears to be referred to in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics: Aristeas was a poet who lived around 700 BCE, and became by transformation one of many ravens who have acted as both adviser and assistant to The Endless known as Dream.

Breathtaker

Breathtaker is a comic book four-part limited series published by DC Comics, with a collected edition published in 1994 under the Vertigo imprint.

Bullet the Blue Sky

On the PopMart Tour, "Bullet" instead led into "Please"; Elevation Tour performances were followed by "With or Without You" or a cover of "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye, and on the Vertigo Tour, "Miss Sarajevo" replaced "Running to Stand Still" for the last 85 concerts.

Darrell Fitton

There have been occasional live performances, the most recent of which was in December 2012 at Adapter's Vertigo IV in Eindhoven.

DC Showcase: Green Arrow

After Merlyn is defeated, Vertigo steps in and attempts to kill both the hero and Perdita, only to be defeated when Black Canary (revealed to be the arriving girlfriend) knocks Vertigo unconscious with her "Canary Cry".

Count Vertigo hires Merlyn to assassinate Princess Perdita, Vertigo's niece.

Dehiscence

Superior canal dehiscence in which a new window opens up in the labyrinth of the inner ear, resulting in a form of vertigo.

Do You Like Hitchcock?

A distraught woman is held from falling by the arm of the person above her as in North by Northwest (a similar scene with Jimmy Stewart is also featured at the beginning of Vertigo).

The Hitchcock videos rented or taken from the video store include Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder while the posters include Vertigo and images of Alfred Hitchcock himself.

Enrique Breccia

In 2005 he became the head artist for the Vertigo series Swamp Thing, drawing 22 issues till 2007.

Faintheart

The film was a result of a collaborative effort from Myspace, Vertigo films and Film4.

Feeding Ground

Lapinski has credited the non-literal coloring of old Vertigo comics such as Swamp Thing with influencing the graphic novel’s look and feel.

Fort Point, San Francisco

The most famous example is Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo, wherein Kim Novak's character Madeleine jumps into the San Francisco Bay in an apparent suicide attempt.

Gillet

A Vertigo was sold to Philippe Streiff, a former Formula One racing driver who is handicapped after an accident during pre-season testing in 1989.

Famous Vertigo-owners are Prince Albert of Monaco and the French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday.

Glyn Dillon

Shade the Changing Man (DC/Vertigo, #34, 38, 40-41, 46, 1994, script by Peter Milligan)

Histamine agonist

Betahistine is a weak Histamine1 agonist but a very strong Histamine3 antagonist that is used to treat vertigo.

House of Mystery

A one shot reprint (in color), Welcome Back to the House of Mystery, featured ten of the most highly regarded stories as selected by Alisa Kwitney in a Cain wraparound by Neil Gaiman and Sergio Aragonés, under the Vertigo imprint.

ILYA

His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis, Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Joel Rose

Rose has edited and co-authored graphic novels for DC Comics, including La Pacifica (Paradox Press) written with Amos Poe and art by Tayyar Ozkan, and Get Jiro! (Vertigo) written with Anthony Bourdain and art by Langdon Foss.

Jonny Double

Most recently Double was featured in Jonny Double: Two Finger Discount, a 1998 four-issue mini-series by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Eduardo Risso (artist), and published by Vertigo/DC Comics.

Lou Ye

Upon its release, international audiences praised Suzhou River, which several critics felt evoked Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, particularly in how both films focus on a man obsessed with a mysterious woman.

My Name Is Not Susan

In the song's music video directed by Lionel C. Martin, Houston is featured playing both herself and a character named "Susan." The video is suggested by several elements in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, both containing a man involved with an obsessive love for both a glamorous blonde and down-to-earth brunette played by the same actress.

Niko Henrichon

Henrichon's first major work was a graphic novel titled Barnum!, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman, but he also did work for Fables, New X-Men, Sandman, and Spider-Man.

Nodwick

They've also encountered characters who appear to be from other sources as well (a pageful of cameos including Xena and Harry Potter in one issue, Death from The Sandman appearing in another, Spider-Man being chased by an amorous Lolth in a comic strip in Dragon Magazine, etc.

Norma Cole

"The Poetics of Vertigo" --- delivered as the 1998 "George Oppen Memorial Lecture"--- won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award.

Notes from a Ceiling

According to Jed Kurzel (vocalist/guitarist), the only recollection he has of recording the album is that Cec Condon (drummer/vocals) nearly set fire to the studio whilst barbecuing, and that while suffering vertigo, the attending doctor was more interested in whether the band were touring on the next Big Day Out than attending to his illness.

Olivia Lewis

At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta'Qali on 3 February 2007, with the song "Vertigo" and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 May 2007.

Orange Drive Miami Beach Music Festival

Some of the talent from the 2010-2011 included Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, DJ Irie, DJ Nino, DJ Vertigo, Adam Carolla, teen rock group The Kicking Daisies, Cuban-American singer Albita, legendary salsa king Gilberto Santa Rosa and salsa duo Hansel y Raul.

Planet Us

In 2008, Hagar released the songs "Vertigo" (now renamed to "Psycho Vertigo") and "Peephole" on his Cosmic Universal Fashion album.

Primal Rage

Vertigo, a unique beast based with a body resembling that of a dromaeosaurid dinosaur and a neck and head resembling a King Cobra.

Roger Chapman

They signed to the Vertigo label and recorded an album Chapman Whitney Streetwalkers (1974), with a line-up including other members of Family and King Crimson, as well as Nicko McBrain, now with Iron Maiden.

Salaì

DC Comics' 1995 Vertigo series Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci (later published as a graphic novel) tells a speculative story of a love affair between Leonardo and Salai.

Samuel A. Taylor

He was often contracted to write drafts for Hitchcock's later films, such as Torn Curtain (1966), though Taylor's only other Hitchcock screenplay (apart from Vertigo) was for Topaz (1969).

Seasick

Seasickness, a form of motion sickness characterized by a feeling of nausea and, in extreme cases, vertigo experienced after spending time on a craft on water

Tales of Ghost Castle

Tales of Ghost Castle was "hosted" by Lucien, who later became an important supporting character in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

The Lavender Hill Mob

The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower steps and become increasingly dizzy and erratic, as does the camera work, presages James Stewart's condition in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, made seven years later.

The Unexpected

The comic features "The Mad Mod Witch" (later known as "Fashion Thing" in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman) as a story narrator in #108-112, 114-116, 140, and 162, and "Judge Gallows" in #113, 118, 121, 125 and 133.

The Vertigo of Bliss

The album cover for The Vertigo of Bliss was designed by comic book artist Milo Manara.

The Witching

Issue #5 featured a guest artist, Mark Buckingham, best known as the regular artist on the Vertigo series, Fables.

Tony Akins

Akins has also inked parts of the series he has pencilled (Gary Does Denmark), along with parts of Vertigo's House of Mystery.

Tony Akins is an artist, penciling and inking for DC/Vertigo who has contributed to the titles Jack of Fables, Fables,Hellblazer,House of Mystery and is currently drawing alternate issues of Wonder Woman for The New 52 relaunch.

Torus Tammer

Both projects were adaptations of comic books; "Golgo 13" (AKA The Professional) by the legendary Japanese comic book artist Takao Saito and "Preacher" which at the time, was a cutting edge new series for Vertigo/DC comics created by Garth Ennis.

V. gouldii

Vertigo gouldii, the variable vertigo, an air-breathing land snail species

Vertigo parcedentata

Vertigo parcedentata was first described as a fossil from the loess of Wiesbaden, Germany.

Vertigo pseudosubstriata

Vertigo pseudosubstriata was first identified as a Pleistocene fossil in the Weichselian loess of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia, Czech Republic).


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