Dates
- Cover date
- December 2008
- In stores
- September 10, 2008
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (4)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- 2nd printing
Second Printing
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
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- Variant Edition - Black-and-WhiteThis edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- The Stand · 23 pages
Charlie goes AWOL in an attempt to save himself and his family from a plague that has killed everyone at the base he was monitoring. However, he is already infected and by the time he reaches a gas station in Texas, his wife and son are dead and he is dying. Everyone who encountered Charlie's car at the gas station starts to get sick.
Publisher’s description
It begins here: the apocalyptic epic battle between good and evil based on the classic bestseller by master of horror Stephen King! On a secret army base in the Californian desert, something has gone horribly, terribly wrong. Something that will send Charlie Campion and his wife and daughter fleeing in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for the Campion family--and the rest of America--they are unaware that all three of them are carrying a deadly cargo: A virus that will spread from person to person like wildfire, triggering a massive wave of disease and death, prefacing humanity's last stand!
Reprinted in
The Stand: Captain Trips (2009), The Stand (2011), The Stand Omnibus (2012)