Only the Savage Are Left #1
Cover B · Marco Mastrazzo variant · first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab
3 June 2026
First issue of Zack Kaplan and Stefano Raffaele's five-part post-apocalyptic horror series for Dark Horse Comics, preserved here in the original-release Cover B state by Marco Mastrazzo. The story follows a nonviolent young man searching for his missing first love in a world where a virus transforms people into monsters and the cure requires killing another infected person.
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- dark-horse-comics
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance, provisional and ungraded in Collect Forever Soft Slab.
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR accession rule; no missing component has been reported. The comic remains enclosed in its Collect Forever Soft Slab.
Catalogue note
First issue of Zack Kaplan and Stefano Raffaele's five-part post-apocalyptic horror series for Dark Horse Comics, preserved here in the original-release Cover B state by Marco Mastrazzo. The story follows a nonviolent young man searching for his missing first love in a world where a virus transforms people into monsters and the cure requires killing another infected person.
Why this object matters
The Mastrazzo variant preserves a particular visual treatment of Kaplan and Raffaele’s post-apocalyptic moral premise. That gives the issue meaningful contemporary genre value. The record does not yet establish outstanding influence, and encapsulation is not evidence of it.
Evidence limits: Complete under the standing TMR accession rule; no missing component has been reported. The comic remains enclosed in its Collect Forever Soft Slab.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 7 / 10.
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