UFO comic Blue Book: 1947 investigates the origins of the flying saucer
Oct. 18, 2023The true life mystery comic looks at the Kenneth Arnold case
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UFOs - sorry,UAP- are so hot right now. Ever since the reveal of the infamous “Tic Tac” video a few years back the conversation around Unidentified Flying Objects has been heated, to say the least.
Some time ago, horror comic masterJames Tynion IVand artist Michael Avon Oeming began retelling famous true cases of UFO encounters, first on Tynion IV’s Substack and then in the pages of their Dark Horse comic,Blue Book.
Here’s Dark Horse’s official synopsis for the first issue.
“In 1947, Kenneth Arnold flew his Call-Air A-2 over the skies of the Pacific Northwest when all of a sudden, he saw a blinding flash of silver light. What followed was a bizarre and difficult to explain encounter with several flying objects that would change the course of his life forever.”
In addition to Oeming’s cover above there will be six variants. You can check them all out in the gallery below. These are by (from left to right) Fábio Moon, Michael Allred, Cully Hamner, Joe Quinones, Christian Ward, and a foiled version of Oeming’s main cover. A further variant will follow in due course.
Kenneth Arnold’s encounter is generally considered to be the first post-World War II UFO sighting. It was this event that led to the terms “flying saucer” and “flying discs” being used frequently in the press and other media. The more famous Roswell incident happened just a month later, cementing 1947 as the year of the UFO.
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Blue Book: 1947 #1 is written by Tynion, illustrated by Oeming, and lettered by Tom Napolitano. It will also include a True Weird backup story by Zac Thompson, Gavin Fullerton, and Aditya Bidikar.
James Tynion IV has written some of thebest horror comicsof all time.
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