The Hab #1
Series premiere · Cover C by E. M. Carroll · first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab
15 April 2026
Original first-print Cover C state of Bad Idea's 2026 horror launch The Hab #1, with an E. M. Carroll variant cover. The story centres on billionaire Tuttle Barrows's sealed survival habitat, built above an ancient freshwater glacial cave as the outside world collapses, only for a long-dormant danger and spreading hallucinations and violence to threaten the refuge from within.
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- bad-idea
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance, provisional and ungraded in Collect Forever Soft Slab.
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR accession rule. The comic remains enclosed in the Collect Forever Soft Slab; no missing component is reported or visible.
Catalogue note
Original first-print Cover C state of Bad Idea's 2026 horror launch The Hab #1, with an E. M. Carroll variant cover. The story centres on billionaire Tuttle Barrows's sealed survival habitat, built above an ancient freshwater glacial cave as the outside world collapses, only for a long-dormant danger and spreading hallucinations and violence to threaten the refuge from within.
Why this object matters
E. M. Carroll’s cover provides a useful artist connection and visual counterpoint within the archive’s recent horror comics. The sealed-habitat premise and exact Cover C identity support 7.5; no established influence or special provenance supports 8.8.
Evidence limits: Complete under the standing TMR accession rule. The comic remains enclosed in the Collect Forever Soft Slab; no missing component is reported or visible.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 7.5 / 10.
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