Gross, Peter( w)."A Day, a Night and a Dream, Part One" The Books of Magic(November 1999).DC Comics.

The Everyman: Tim is sort of introduced as this in the original miniseries, being mainly a normal young boy who is taken on a grand tour of the magical parts of the DC universe. The ongoing series slowly has him grow out of this trope as he becomes both more powerful, more savvy and more strongly characterized. By the time of Names of Magic he's abandoned the trope entirely.Happily Adopted: Tim, after he finds out that he's not William Hunter's biological son, and may not even have been the son of Mary Hunter, mopes a bit about it, but in the end decides that William and Mary raised him and took care of him, and never once called him a "changeling." William, upon confronted with Tim's parentage, admits that Mary was already pregnant when he married her, and he never knew whether Tim was biologically his or not — but he never thought it mattered one way or the other. Peter Gross explained in his 25 issue run on the book as being the story of Tim's "boy time", commenting that previously the book had often presented benevolent female characters but had been less successful at their benevolent male counterparts. His story was partly designed, then, to show Tim accepting his male side and learning how to be a boy - one of Gross' reasons for not using the character of Molly during his run. He did comment that if he had stayed on the book, Gross' next story would have shown Tim similarly exploring his feminine side and would therefore have reintroduced some of the established female characters such as Molly or Gwen. [9] Prequel in the Lost Age: Both the first Books of Faerie mini-series and Auberon's Tale qualify as this, telling of the younger days of Titania and Auberon. Evil Matriarch: Titania, Queen of Faerie and Tim's real mother. Subverted because Tim is fully human, but confirmed because Titania is human as well. Of all these characters I only knew Constantine. The four propose to show the boy the ways of magic and put a choice before him (to practice magic or to be "normal").

Stuart Moore: To Dare For Moore". ComicsBulletin. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011 . Retrieved May 2, 2008.a b Gross, Peter( w)."The Closing, Part 3: Inner Child" The Books of Magic,no.75(August 2000).DC Comics. In addition to the mini-series and the ongoing series, Vertigo also produced four The Books of Magic annuals. The first, Arcana: The Books of Magic Annual, reintroduced Tim Hunter and launched the ongoing series. The second, actually titled The Books of Magic Annual #1 due to the change in name from "Arcana", told the story of Tim's encounter with a minor god's daughter who was one of Tamlin's cast-off conquests. Both these annuals were later included in the collected editions of The Books of Faerie and The Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale respectively. The concept was later expanded upon by other Vertigo authors, first in a 75-issue series by John Ney Rieber and Peter Gross, and later in a series that became part of The Sandman Universe. With Rieber leaving, the series editor Stuart Moore championed Gross to take over scripting duties because "I knew he could do it. He's got a great sense of story and character". [11] Gross initially wrote a short memo detailing where he thought the series should go, hoping that it might influence the editors' choice of writer. Gross was then asked if he could expand his ideas into an actual story, and he plotted a six issue story that he thought might be used as a "filler" until a new writer could be found. [8] DC encouraged him to think bigger until, by the time he started writing his first issue, he had plotted out a 23-issue-long story for the book. This soon expanded into plots for Gross' entire 25-issue run, [9] despite Gross initially being nervous that his writing efforts would be unfavorably compared to those of Gaiman and Rieber by the series' fans. [8] Doctor Occult turns into Rose Psychic while in Faerie (previous versions had her as his assistant, not literally his other half).