Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Collects Preacher (1995-2000) #1-33, Preacher Special: Saint of Killers (1996) #1-4, and Cassidy: Blood and Whiskey (1998).

Written by Garth Ennis. Art by Steve Dillon and Steve Pugh. Cover by Glenn Fabry. Introduction by Brian K. Vaughan.

Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Texan preacher Jesse Custer possesses the power of "the word," an ability to make people do whatever he commands. Custer embarks on a violent and riotous journey across the country, joined by his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and the hard-drinking Irish vampire Cassidy, witnessing dark atrocities and improbable calamities during his sojourn across America.

Hardcover, 1,088 pages, full color. Mature Readers

NOTE: "Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's magnum opus - Preacher - is one of the most original, shocking, tantalizing, scary, and funniest pieces of literature of the last 30 years." – Odinson, mycomicshop.com Archivist