1st app. Walking Dead

[CAP Freak]

Is there a first appearance of the Walking Dead by by Kirkman. Is it Walking Dead #1 or was it previewed in another Image mag? Would this issue be more expensive or hard to get?

 

Thanks,

Connor

[everlongcomics]

there's the graphic novel 'Image First' which has the contents of Walking Dead #1 in it, but not sure if this came out before issue #1

[Comic_Diva]

The Image First comic was published in 2005, issue 1 of The Walking Dead published in October 2003. As far as I know there isn't a book that pre-dates the first issue of TWD.

 

EvilAsh is the guru on this book and could probably confirm or correct my statement above.

[slackjawcomics]

It is Walking Dead #1, which is the first appearance of Rick Grimes

Morgan & Duane Jones. Zombies, well I am not sure about their first appearance in comics.

[EvilAsh]

The Image First comic was published in 2005, issue 1 of The Walking Dead published in October 2003. As far as I know there isn't a book that pre-dates the first issue of TWD.

 

 

This is correct (thumbs u

[ft88]

So what is the first appearance of zombies in comics? In pulps? In any form of publication, art, or film?

[s-man]

Nevermind....

 

 

Go WD!!

 

 

 

 

[drice6900]

Now why would you post that when it is full of spoilers and really has nothing to do with the question that started this thread?

[Lebowski]

So what is the first appearance of zombies in comics? In pulps? In any form of publication, art, or film?

 

Now THAT is a tough question.

[right_you_are-migration]

So what is the first appearance of zombies in comics? In pulps? In any form of publication, art, or film?

 

Now THAT is a tough question.

 

Isn't Jesus technically a zombie? He just doesn't want to eat brains...

[comix4fun]

So what is the first appearance of zombies in comics? In pulps? In any form of publication, art, or film?

 

Now THAT is a tough question.

 

Isn't Jesus technically a zombie? He just doesn't want to eat brains...

 

 

Umm...no.

[shiverbones]

First Zombie in any popular media was the movie "White Zombie" with Bela Lugosi in 1932.

 

As for a comic, I am not sure, but certainly pre-code horror at the latest.

 

Zombies as they appear these days, brain eating rotting things that overwhelm people in sheer numbers I would say 1st appeared in comics in Deadworld #1

[comix4fun]

Zombies as they appear these days, brain eating rotting things that overwhelm people in sheer numbers I would say 1st appeared in comics in Deadworld #1

 

In comics I tend to agree, in films they were in this mode from the first Romero film.

 

C

[shiverbones]

Yeah, in Night of the living dead, no doubt. It's just fun that White Zombie introduced the concept of the voodoo version to the masses.

[shiverbones]

Now that I think about it, House of Secrets #131 has a story by Suydam in which the Zombies are very modern style rotting things. I don't have the issue anymore, but It may be the result of an infection, which is also a modern zombie idea. That came out in 1975

[ArnoldTBlumberg]

There is also a rumored 1932 Indian movie called "The Passing Show" which may have been the first zombie movie. But it cannot be located.

 

 

[shiverbones]

cool fact! I hate lost films...

[Subliminal]

Has anyone read the "Zombie Terror" story in the fall 1948 of Moon Girl #5?

 

 

[shiverbones]

I haven't

[WOXL]

I was having a conversation about zombies with some coworkers (the topic comes up surprisingly often!) and we were unsuccessfully trying to figure out what popularized the idea of zombies eating "brains." It wasn't the Romero movies as those zombies just wanted to eat people. Anyone have any idea where this started? Or was it possibly just a misperception by the public based off having to shoot zombies in the brains to kill them? Anyone know?

 

-Bob