Vertigo was launched in January 1993 with a mixture of existing ongoing series continued under the new imprint, new ongoing series, new limited series, and single-volume collections or graphic novels. Their publishing plan for the first year involved two new titles – whether ongoing/limited series or one-shots – each month. The existing series (cover date March 1993) were "Shade, the Changing Man" (starting with #33), "The Sandman" (#47), "Hellblazer" (#63), "Animal Man" (#57), "Swamp Thing" (#129), and "Doom Patrol" (#64, with new writer Rachel Pollack).