The Blue Book Prequel From 1947 Gets A Prequel At Dark Horse Comics

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Blue Book is a non-fiction comedian depicting true tales of UFO Encounters, based mostly on authentic sources by James Tynion IV & Michael Avon Oeming

Blue Book is a non-fiction comedian sequence depicting true tales of UFO Encounters, based mostly on the unique sources. Published digitally on Substack, James Tynion IV, Michael Avon Oeming and Tom Napolitano are bringing their new prequel Blue Book to Dark Horse Comics, set a decade and a half earlier than Blue Book: 1961 and when “Betty and Barney Hill excited the public with their alien encounter story, there were years and years of suspected sightings and abductions” With Blue Book: 1947 from Dark Horse Comics in February 2024.

In 1947, Kenneth Arnold flew his Call-Air A-2 over the skies of the Pacific Northwest when impulsively, he noticed a blinding flash of silver gentle. What adopted was a weird and troublesome to elucidate encounter with a number of flying objects that might change the course of his life endlessly.

Blue Book: 1947 #1 is written by Tynion, illustrated by Oeming, and lettered by Napolitano. The first concern can even embody six variant covers by artists Michael Avon Oeming, Fábio Moon, Michael Allred, Cully Hammer, Joe Quinones (1:10 virgin retailer incentive variant), and Christian Ward (1:10 virgin retailer incentive variant). One extra variant cowl shall be revealed at a later date.

Blue Book: 1947 #1 additionally features a True Weird backup story by Zac Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker), Gavin Fullerton (The Closet), and Aditya Bidikar.

Blue Book: 1947 #1 (of 5) shall be revealed on the seventh of February, 2024.

On the method, Michael Allred wrote; “One of the things I was most excited about when starting was the chance to work mostly analog, old-school pen & ink! I’ve come to rely on working digitally these days, mostly for speed and my eyes. While the screen is harder on my eyes, it does allow me to zoom in and such. But I knew from the way we were going to approach BLUE BOOK, that this was a great opportunity to pick up pen and paper again.”