If you’re a super fan of anything, you’re always looking to add to your collection. Now that Predator has come to Marvel, they have something special planned for all of those previous issues. The publisher has announced a hardcover omnibus release of all of those classic stories.
Predator: The Original Years Omnibus Vol. 1 will take fans where: “Nowhere is safe when the remorseless alien killers stalk the concrete jungle of New York City, leave a trail of death across the American Southwest and ignite the Cold War by landing in Siberia! Find out if the Predators came to Earth during Vietnam or World War I and see the hunters make a new enemy in Dutch’s brother, Detective John Schaefer. Read on as an Arizona prison becomes a slaughterhouse and witness a Predator vs. psychotic Predator showdown in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey! Finally, take a trip to 1950s Hollywood, where only a child with special glasses can see the monster in the midst of Tinseltown!”
Here are the issues that will be included in this volume:
- PREDATOR (1989) #1-4
- PREDATOR 2 #1-2
- PREDATOR: BIG GAME #1-4
- PREDATOR: COLD WAR #1-4
- PREDATOR: THE BLOODY SANDS OF TIME #1-2
- PREDATOR: RACE WAR #1-4
- PREDATOR: BAD BLOOD #1-4
- PREDATOR: INVADERS FROM THE FOURTH DIMENSION
- PREDATOR: DARK RIVER #1-4
- PREDATOR: STRANGE ROUX
- PREDATOR: KINDRED #1-4
- plus material from DARK HORSE PRESENTS (1986) #46, #67-69 and #119; DARK HORSE COMICS #1-2, #4-7, #10-14, #16-18 and #20-21; and A DECADE OF DARK HORSE #1
The cover (shown above) comes from artist Iban Coello, with a variant also available from Chris Warner. While no specific release date was given, Marvel does tell us that it will be some time in July of 2021. See the complete list of creative talent below.
PREDATOR: THE ORIGINAL YEARS OMNIBUS VOL. 1 HC
Written by MARK VERHEIDEN, FRANZ HENKEL, JOHN ARCUDI, DAN BARRY, ANDREW VACHSS, RANDY STRADLEY, EVAN DORKIN, JERRY PROSSER, BRIAN MCDONALD, JASON R. LAMB, SCOTT TOLSON, NEAL BARRETT JR., CHUCK DIXON, CHARLES MOORE, TERRY LABAN & MORE
Penciled by CHRIS WARNER, RON RANDALL, DAN BARRY, MARK BRIGHT, EVAN DORKIN, JORDAN RASKIN, LAUCHLAND PELLE, DEREK THOMPSON, JIM SOMERVILLE, MITCH BYRD, BRIAN O’CONNELL, ROGER PETERSEN, LEO DURANONA, ENRIQUE ALCATENA, D. ALEXANDER GREGORY, HOWARD COBB & MORE
Cover by IBAN COELLO
Direct Market Variant Cover by CHRIS WARNER
Photo Credit: Marvel