Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain
#1
[Standard Cover]
(June 2010)
Dark Horse,
2010 Series
- Price
- 3.50 USD
- Pages
- 32
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Dark Horse Comics [facing left]
- Barcode
- 761568170993 00111
- Editing
- Scott Allie (editor); Samantha Robertson (associate editor); Daniel Chabon (assistant editor); Mike Richardson (publisher)
Issue Notes
"Number 7 in a Series" per title page. Per indicia: Copyright 2010 Michael Mignola. Printed by Cadmus Communications, Easton, PA, USA.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[Dave Johnson variant cover]
Abe Sapien / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dave Johnson (signed)
- Inks
- Dave Johnson (signed)
- Colors
- Dave Johnson (signed)
- Letters
- Dave Johnson (signed); typeset
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Abe Sapien
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
Johnson's incorporation of the story title into his artwork can be seen at various sites online that present the cover without trade dress, including an interview with Robot 6 at Comic-Book Resources.
![Cover Thumbnail for Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1 [Standard Cover]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/753/w200/753720.jpg?7985602239277040989)
![Cover Thumbnail for Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain (2010 series) #1 [Variant Cover]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/754/w100/754634.jpg?-2200895359906614334)
[Title Page]
credits, title page / 1 page
- Pencils
- Peter Snejbjerg
- Inks
- Peter Snejbjerg
- Letters
- Amy Arendts (design); typeset
- Characters
- Abe Sapien
Indexer Notes
The inside front cover has title, credits, and indicia with spot illustration.
The Abyssal Plain [Part 1]
Abe Sapien / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Mike Mignola; John Arcudi
- Pencils
- Peter Snejbjerg
- Inks
- Peter Snejbjerg
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Clem Robins
- Genre
- adventure; horror-suspense; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Abe Sapien; Iosif; Sal Tasso; Ugo Melchiorre (flashback); Capt. Sullivan
- Synopsis
- 1948: A Russian submarine carrying special cargo is lost under the Norwegian Sea.
1984: BPRD agents on a salvage ship arrive at the wreckage. Abe Sapien explains that it's thought to contain a helmet known as Melchiorre's Burgonet -- dating to the reign of Pope Clement VII and taken by the Soviets from the Nazis' store of occult relics after World War II. - Reprints
Indexer Notes
Story title from inside from cover. It begins: "I suppose what it is that I'm trying to say, Polina..."
[Letters Page]
Hellmail / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Scott Allie (signed)
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola
- Inks
- Mike Mignola
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Allie provides replies and additional commentary.
Indexer Notes
Letter writers are David Bird and Alexis Rasimowicz.
Next Month box has cover detail from Baltimore: The Plague Ships (Dark Horse, 2010 series) #1.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Dave Johnson variant cover]
Abe Sapien -
1.
[Title Page]
-
2.
The Abyssal Plain [Part 1]
Abe Sapien -
3.
[Advertisements]
-
4.
[Letters Page]
Hellmail -
5.
Horsepower! June 2010
Horsepower
This issue was modified by
- Ralf Haring
- Brian Saner Lamken
- Mike Nielsen
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.