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Cell Wars

Bio Comics ⋅ 1998

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Cell Wars
 
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Promotional comic educating prison inmates on the danger and transmission of HIV

Sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb Immunology

Zombie Tramp #74
Non-Key

Variant ⋅ Action Lab ⋅ 2020

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Zombie Tramp #74
 
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Variant cover art by Mike McComb

Avengers: Everyday Heroes

Marvel ⋅ 2022

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Promotional giveaway obtained by getting a Covid-19 vaccination

Collaboration by Marvel, Pfizer and Biontech

Black Hole #7

Kitchen Sink Press ⋅ 2000

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Black Hole #7
 
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Cover art by Charles Burns

Story about a plague that causes physical mutations

X-Men #1

Marvel ⋅ 2013

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X-Men #1
 
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1st appearance of Shogo, Jubilee's adopted son

1st appearance of Arkea Prime, an aggressive bacterium and sister of John Sublime

Spread #1

Image ⋅ 2014

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Spread #1
 
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Series about an ancient enemy threatening the end of humanity

Infected #1

EU ⋅ 2012

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Infected #1
 
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One-shot comic commissioned by the European Union about a pandemic with scenes that are similar to the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic including, a scenario of disease transmission from animal to human in a wet market and social isolation laws put into effect

Reportedly only a few hundred copies were printed and distributed inside EU institutions

Digital version can be read online at op.europa.eu

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Justice League #35

DC ⋅ 2014

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Justice League #35
 
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Amazo Virus storyline begins and runs through issue #39

A bizarre disease has been unleashed, America has been quarantined and the whole world is at a stand still

Reintroduction of Lex Luthor's sister, Lena Luthor

The Stand: Captain Trips #1
Non-Key

Marvel ⋅ 2008

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The Stand: Captain Trips #1
 
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Adaptation of Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in a struggle between good and evil

Weirdom Illustrated #13

Independent ⋅ 1969

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Weirdom Illustrated #13
 
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56-page comic with stories inspired by the Bubonic Plague

Wraparound cover by Richard Corben

The Strain #1

Dark Horse ⋅ 2011

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The Strain #1
 
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Adaptation of a book by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan about an infectious virus that turns humans into vampires

Category Zero #1
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Scout ⋅ 2019

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Category Zero #1
 
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The entirety of Earth's population is infected by a virus that gives unusual and sometimes dangerous abilities to only the one-percent of people who show symptoms

V Wars #1

IDW ⋅ 2014

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V Wars #1
 
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Mankind has been silently infected by millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica

Adapted into a television series for Netflix

Pandemica #1
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IDW ⋅ 2019

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Pandemica #1
 
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A small group of scientists and military specialists band together to fight a shadow government that is targeting specific ethnic groups to launch bio-weapons called Purity Bombs

Memetic #1

BOOM! ⋅ 2014

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Memetic #1
 
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Three-issue series about the progression of an infectious meme that leads to the annihilation of the human race within 72 hours

Copies ordered by retailers: 7,010

[🚨 Key Collector Comics Exclusive - Jan 2020/ optioned by Point Grey Pictures, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's production company]

The Empty Man #1

BOOM! ⋅ 2014

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The Empty Man #1
 
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Six-part miniseries about a terrifying sickness called the Empty Man disease and the hysteria that follows

Adapted into a film

The Final Plague #1
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Action Lab ⋅ 2013

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The Final Plague #1
 
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A rural family in Iowa fight to survive the initial onslaught of crazed, rabid animals, presumably the product of a mutated super-virus

The Clock #1
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Image ⋅ 2020

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The Clock #1
 
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Within three weeks, millions of healthy people worldwide contract an aggressive, life-threatening illness and it's up to a leading cancer researcher to end a global conspiracy before it destroys humanity

Night of the Living Deadpool #1

Marvel ⋅ 2014

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Night of the Living Deadpool #1
 
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Deadpool wakes up from a food coma to a world overrun with zombies

28 Days Later #1

BOOM! ⋅ 2009

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28 Days Later #1
 
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Premiere issue of a series that connects the movie '28 Days Later' with the sequel '28 Weeks Later'

[January 2024 - Sony acquired the rights to the sequel]

Sweet Tooth #1

DC Vertigo ⋅ 2009

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Sweet Tooth #1
 
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A young man with deer-like features journeys to a sanctuary, hunted by those who believe the half-human-animal hybrids are somehow responsible for the plague that has been erasing humanity

Copies ordered by retailers: 18,551

Adapted for a Netflix television series

I Am Legend #1

Eclipse ⋅ 1991

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I Am Legend #1
 
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Four-issue adaption of the novel by Richard Matheson about a virus that turns the human population into vampires except for one man

[March 2022 - Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan confirmed for I Am Legend sequel]

Crossed #0

Avatar ⋅ 2008

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Crossed #0
 
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An infectious plague causes its victims to carry out their darkest, most brutal desires

[August 2024 - Garth Ennis has written a screenplay and independent producer Six Studios intends to finance and produce the movie based on the original ten issue series]

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #176

Marvel ⋅ 1991

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Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #176
 
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1st appearance of Corona, a villain whose creation resulted in the SoHo flu being released in New York City

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48
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DC ⋅ 1996

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Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48
 
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Part one of an 11-part crossover

After an entire Greenland village is annihilated by a lethal virus, the plague is set loose in Gotham City

The Walking Dead #1

Image ⋅ 2003

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The Walking Dead #1
 
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Premiere issue of an ongoing series about survivors of a zombie outbreak from writer Robert Kirkman

Adapted by AMC for cable television

1st appearance of Rick Grimes

1st appearance of Shane Walsh

Print run: 7,266

DCeased #1

DC ⋅ 2019

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DCeased #1
 
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A mysterious techno-virus has been unleashed on Earth infecting 600 million people and turning them instantly into violent, monstrous engines of destruction

Y: The Last Man #1

DC Vertigo ⋅ 2002

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Y: The Last Man #1
 
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Premiere issue of a series created by Brian K. Vaughn about the last man on a female populated Earth

Contagion #1
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Marvel ⋅ 2019

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Contagion #1
 
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A six-issue series about an infection that indiscriminately attacks heroes and civilians, draining them of their life force

1st appearance of the Urchin

Marvel Zombies #1

Marvel ⋅ 2006

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Marvel Zombies #1
 
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Premiere issue of Marvel Zombies written by Robert Kirkman, writer of The Walking Dead

Marvel Zombies were introduced in Ultimate Fantastic Four #21 - #23

The Resistance #1
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AWA Upshot ⋅ 2020

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The Resistance #1
 
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Six-issue limited series that launches the Upshot Universe: a global pandemic kills hundreds of millions but leaves some of the survivors with extraordinary powers

Undiscovered Country #1

Image ⋅ 2019

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Undiscovered Country #1
 
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In search for a cure to an apocalyptic pandemic, a group of scientists travel to a region of the United States that has been walled-off from the rest of the world for decades

[September 2019 - acquired by New Republic Pictures]

[October 2021 - Charles Soule Update: Scott Snyder and I are still in the thick of writing the screenplay for New Republic Pictures, but we're well into our second draft]

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