Dates
- Cover date
- October 2009
- On sale
- 2009
- In stores
- August 12, 2009
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (6)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Variant Edition - Gerald ParelThis edition’s page
- 70th Anniversary Blank Cover VariantThis edition’s page
- Variant Edition - Sketch CoverThis edition’s page
Creators
pencils: Phil Jimenezinks: Phil Jimenezcolors: Morry Hollowell
Publisher’s description
Who is the mysterious old man who lies on his deathbed in a hospital in 1939, and how does his passing mark the beginning of the first heroic age of the Marvel Universe -- and signal the rise of the super-humans?
Reprinted in
The Marvels Project: Birth of the Super Heroes (2010), The Marvels Project: Birth of the Super Heroes (2011)