Blue Book Volume 1: 1961
Dark Horse Comics · Paperback · September 19, 2023
An ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, genre-blending comic with the crisp pull of a collected edition.
- Genres
- Historical Graphic Nonfiction, Alien Contact Comics, Horror Comics
- Published
- Dark Horse Comics, September 19, 2023
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An ambitious, non-fiction comic book experience depicting true stories of UFO abductions with an eye to capturing the strange essence of those encounters. From the New York Times bestselling and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Department of Truth. In Blue Book, teaming with artist Michael Avon Oeming and letterer Aditya Bidikar, James Tynion IV presents what he calls his “True Weird” stories.
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Tales of ordinary people encountering the strange and the impossible. Volume 1 retells the infamous case of the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill of New Hampshire in 1961 — the very first widely-publicized UFO abduction that went on to shape and influence all future encounter stories. Collects the Dark Horse Comics series Blue Book #1—#5, originally published on Substack.
Collected Signals
A serious, genre-blending comic with the crisp pull of a collected edition.
Come here for
- prestige sci-fi comic energy
- collector-friendly first volume
Expect
- category-hopping signals
- a sustained, immersive read
Where it sits
| Alien Contact Comics | 75% |
|---|---|
| Horror Comics | 75% |
| Historical Graphic Nonfiction | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Science Fiction Comics
- Alien Contact Comics
- Historical Graphic Nonfiction
- Authors
- James Tynion IV, Michael Avon Oeming, Aditya Bidikar
- Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics
- Published
- September 19, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Science Fiction Comics