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{{Infobox comic book title
| image           = Billi99 01.jpg
| caption         = Cover to ''Billi 99'' #1.
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| publisher       = Dark Horse Comics
| date            = 1991 (original), 2002 (reprint)
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| issues          = 4
| main_char_team  = Billi 99
| creators        = Written by Sarah Byam, Illustrated by Tim Sale
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'''''Billi 99''''' is a four-issue [[comic book]] [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]] published by [[Dark Horse Comics]] in [[1991 in comics|1991]], which was later reprinted in 2002. It was written by [[Sarah Byam]] and illustrated by [[Tim Sale (artist)|Tim Sale]]. It is among Tim Sale's earliest published work.<ref name="Byam2002">{{cite book|author=Sarah Byam|title=Billi 99|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0gIAAAACAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Dark Horse Comics|isbn=978-1-56971-819-3}}</ref>

The tag line for ''Billi 99'', as seen in comic ads in Fall 1991, reads, "It's 1999... Do You Know Where Your Civil Rights Are? Billi 99 A Prayer in Four Parts". The story was inspired by Byam's experiences in Detroit in the 1980s, a love of the heroic stories and pessimism over the reactionary political movements of the time.

A second collected edition was recently{{when|date=June 2025}} reprinted and sold in English, Spanish, and Italian; and distributed throughout Europe, the U.S., and Canada.

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==External links==
*{{Comicbookdb|type=title|id=3643|title=''Billi 99''}}

[[Category:1991 comics debuts]]
[[Category:Dark Horse Comics limited series]]

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