Marvel recently released an Alien #1, after Dark Horse had the license for 30-some years. In fact, outside of a single graphic novel/album adaptation of the first film, I’m pretty sure that every Alien/Aliens/Aliens vs. Predator/AvP, etc comic published until March 24, 2021 had been published by Dark Horse.
To go along with this Bold New Enterprise and such, I’ve put together a Speculator’s Guide to highlight some of the "key" firsts and why you should absolutely stock up on and hoard this issue and alllllll its variants.
After all…that’s what comics are all about*, right?
Consider the following my bonus "Speculator Guide" to Marvel’s Alien #1:
- First Alien comic published by Marvel
- First appearance of Gabriel Cruz
- First appearance of Danny Cruz
- First appearance of the Movement
- First appearance of Epsilon Station.
- First ("cameo") appearance of some sort of Xenomorph variant in dream sequences
- First Marvel appearance of any Xenomorph variant
- First cover appearance of some sort of Xenomorph variant (variant covers)
- First Marvel Alien #1
- First Alien cover by InHyuk Lee
- First Alien cover by Steve McNiven & Laura Martin
- First Alien cover by Peach Momoko
- First Alien cover by Ron Lim & Israel Silva
- First Alien cover by Todd Nauck & Rachelle Rosenberg
- First Alien cover by Patrick Gleason
- First Alien cover by Skottie Young
- First Alien cover by David Finch & Frank D’Armata
- First Alien cover by Salvador Larroca & Guru-eFX
- First Alien comic written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson
- First Alien comic edited by Jake Thomas and Shannon Andrews Ballesteros
- First $4.99 Alien comic not part of an event series
- First ongoing Alien #1 at $4.99 price
- First appearance of Facehuggers in Marvel
- First facehugging in Marvel
- First Alien comic with Captain Marvel (ad)
- First Alien comic with Spider-Man (ad)
- First Alien comic with Spider-Woman (ad)
- First Alien comic with Venom (ad)
- First Alien comic with Nightcrawler (ad)
- First Alien comic with The Mighty Valkyries (ad)
- First Alien comic with the Champions (ad)
I may have missed a few things, but there you have it! Feel free to chime in on what I’ve missed. I imagine we’ll see plenty of other "key" things about #2 in a few weeks, but that’ll be a Whole New Cycle of Key-ness after this issue’s been milked for all it’s worth…right?
(*This post is tongue-in-cheek but with a point to be had.)
As random art or "prints" go…I like a number of these covers. But even for comic cover-sized prints $5 is a bit much. And since they’re basically all generic images…this really could be a year and a half’s worth of covers!
Put ’em in an art book…do an Alien Gallery by Marvel issue or something. (With so many covers just for #1, they’ve already got a full Gallery issue’s contents!)
Here’s hoping that the series develops something worthwhile and works out to more than JUST a TON of VARIANTS and being "not-Dark Horse." Let’s get some substance and such! Beyond hype, beyond mere "speculation."
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