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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March 2005
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 36
Editing Scott Tucker

Cover Details - "Cover A"

Characters Samantha Argent; Ellis; Wolf
Genre superhero
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Robin Spehar; Dreamer Design

Cover Details - "Cover B"

Characters Wolf
Genre superhero
Pencils Trevor Hairsine
Inks Trevor Hairsine
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Robin Spehar; Dreamer Design

Cover Details - "Cover C"

Characters Samantha Argent; Ellis
Genre superhero
Pencils J. Scott Campbell
Inks J. Scott Campbell
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Robin Spehar; Dreamer Design
Notes There is a variant of this cover with the title in red foil; There is also a limited variant of this cover distributed through Dynamic Forces with the title in gold foil and limited to 250 copies.

Cover Details - "Cover D"

Characters Ellis; Wolf
Genre superhero
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Robin Spehar; Dreamer Design
Notes Dynamic Forces variant cover; There is another DF variant of this cover with the image in black and white and limited to 500 copies.

Cover Details - "Wizard World LA Variant Cover"

Characters Samantha Argent
Genre superhero
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Typeset
Notes Variant cover distributed exclusively at the Wizard World Los Angeles comic con and limited to 1,000 copies; This variant is not included in the list of covers in the credits.

22 page Hunter-Killer story "Untitled"

Characters Samantha Argent; Ellis; Wolf; Cathy Cthulu; Haruspex; Steve (Ellis' father; death); Susan (Ellis' mother; death)
Synopsis Argent has Agent Haruspex psychically pull the current location of Wolf from the corpse of Cathy Cthulu; On an isolated Montana farm, Ellis asks his parents why he cannot hang out with friends his age or get a regular job; When Ellis unconsciously takes pills to help stave off radiation poisoning, his folks lock him in an underground bunker beneath the house and prepare for the confrontation they know is approaching; Ellis is attacked by Wolf who has been hiding in the bunker; A powerful explosion cracks the bunker open and Ellis finds that his father has transformed into an ultra-sapien form and is battling Argent's Hunter-Killer troops; He also discovers that his mother caused the blast by sacrificing her life; Argent realizes that Ellis is a human catalog of ultra-sapien powers; To keep the knowledge of his people out of Hunter-Killer hands, Ellis' father tries to kill him by exploding in a burst of bionuclear energy; Ellis survives and is taken by Argent while Wolf looks on from the shadows.
Script Mark Waid
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems; Eric Basaluda; Ryan Winn (Assistant); Pat Aquino (Assistant)
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Robin Spehar; Dreamer Design's Dennis Heisler

1 page Hunter-Killer text article "Letter to Fans"

Genre superhero
Script Mark Waid
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Typeset
Notes Brief discussion by Waid about the Hunter-Killer project.

1 page Hunter-Killer illustration "Hunter-Killer #2 Coming Soon"

Characters Wolf
Genre superhero
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Typeset
Notes Presents full page cover art for next issue.

1 page Hunter-Killer text article "Hunter-Killer #2 Plot For 22 Pages"

Genre superhero
Script Mark Waid
Pencils Marc Silvestri
Inks Joe Weems
Colors Steve Firchow
Letters Typeset
Notes Presents the plot for the first three pages of next issue's story.