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Fathom #8

Image · Series began 1998 · September 1999

Dates

Cover date
September 1999
In stores
August 4, 1999
Pages
36

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Editions and covers (4)

Copies of #8 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Standard Cover

    Barcode 70985307401400811

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  • Newsstand edition$2.50 cover

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07447095606808

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  • Canadian price edition[none] cover

    Canadian Expo Speckled Foil Cover

    Printed cover price [none].

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  • Canadian price edition[none] cover

    Canadian Expo Blue Foil Cover

    Printed cover price [none].

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Story arc: Blue Sun

This is part 8 of 9. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

  1. Fathom #1
  2. Fathom #2
  3. Fathom #3
  4. Fathom #4
  5. Fathom #5
  6. Fathom #6
  7. Fathom #7
  8. Fathom #8
  9. Fathom #9

Creators

pencils: Michael Turnerinks: Michael Turner, Joe Weems, Jon Sibal, Jason Gorder, Marco Gallicolors: J. D. Smith, Peter Steigerwald, Cesar Rodriguez, Monica Rodriguezscript: Michael Turner, Bill O'Neilletters: Dennis Heisler

Stories

  • Untitled · 22 pages

    With Killian's blue sun hanging ominously over the ocean, Cannon fills Aspen in on part of her origins. As the blue sun shoots a beam deep into the sea, Aspen, Cannon and Chance fly into the beam and try to discover a way to stop Killian's plan of destruction.

Publisher’s description

Borders are set  between the aquatic Blue and the human race. Killian has heated up the playing field and started a war which he wont be able to contain. Tempting a very determined Admiral Maylander who's determination may just be the death of the Blue.Meanwhile Aspen Matthews discovers a key to her past that may change her entire opinionabout the war. When the war starts brewing up Aspen must make the terrible choice of where her loyalties lay. To her biological family or her adopted family.

Reprinted in

Michael Turner's Fathom (2001)

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