"Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Vertigo Rave (1994), Books of Magic (1994-2000) #1-13 and Arcana Annual Books of Magic (1994). Written by John Ney Rieber. Art by Peter Gross. Tim Hunter, destined to become Earth's greatest sorcerer, defends the realm of Faerie from the deadly manticore while trying to maintain a normal childhood life. Is his real father the one-armed drunk in the front room or is he the man who can turn into a hawk? Is his mother dead and buried or is she Titania, Queen of Faerie? Plus Death herself weighs in on the subject of identity."