WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Chance Calloway — 1st appearance
- James Maylander — 1st appearance
- Akiko Nigata — 1st appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- August 1998
- On sale
- August 1998
- In stores
- July 8, 1998
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (8)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Bubbles CoverSource ↗
- Dolphin CoverThis edition’s page
- Wizard World 98 ExclusiveThis edition’s page
- Killian CoverThis edition’s page
- Jay Company Variant AThis edition’s page
- Jay Company Variant BThis edition’s page
- Bubbles Cover Museum EditionThis edition’s page
- Killian Cover Museum EditionThis edition’s page
Story arc: Blue Sun
This is part 1 of 9. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Creators
pencils: Michael Turnerinks: Joe Weems, Victor Llamas, Marco Galli, Alp Altiner, John Livesaycolors: J. D. Smith, Richard Isanovescript: Michael Turner, Bill O'Neilletters: Dennis Heisler
Stories
- Untitled · 24 pages
Aspen arrives at the underwater Deep Marine Discovery research station to begin her new job where she is shown an amazing aquatic alien man who has allowed himself to be captured by the scientists.
Publisher’s description
There are two worlds. The one we know, and the one below. Aspen Matthews was a marine biologist who, in a failed experiment, discovered that she is actually a water nymph, able to live and thrive beneath the water.
Characters
Aspen MatthewsCannon HawkeChance CallowayKillianJames MaylanderAkiko Nigata
Reprinted in
Top Cow Classics In Black and White: Fathom (2000), Michael Turner's Fathom (2001)