Object label
Image Comics · Comics · The Walking Dead · 2003
Rick Grimes, Sheriff of a small town in Kentucky awakes in a hospital. Comatose after being shot while on duty, Rick finds the world abandoned of all things living and is faced with walking undead, who attack him on sight. He returns home to find his family, son Carl and wife Lori, gone. He meets his new neighbor, who points him towards Atlanta. After retrieving supplies from the abandoned Police Station, Rick sets off to Atlanta to search for his family.
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The Walking Dead #1 is a comics collectible connected to Image Comics and The Walking Dead. Useful collector signals include release year 2003, issue #1, and artist context from Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore. The Walking Dead has 1 catalogued release on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
The Walking Dead #1 is a comics entry for issue #1 in The Walking Dead from 2003. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
Image Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Carl Grimes, Duane Jones, Lori Grimes, Morgan Jones, Rick Grimes, and Shane Walsh.
Series context
The Walking Dead
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- 1 object
- Release span
- 2003
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- Image Comics
- Series
- The Walking Dead
- Issue number
- #1
- Cover date
- Oct 1, 2003
- Store date
- Oct 8, 2003
- Characters
- Carl Grimes, Duane Jones, Lori Grimes, Morgan Jones, Rick Grimes, Shane Walsh
- Creators
- Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore
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Data source
- Source
- Metron
- Source ID
- 3374
- Source URL
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