Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite #1 Retailer Incentive Variant

Dark Horse Comics, published in September 2007 (in shops 2007-10-31).

Once, the Umbrella Academy was unstoppable. Under the tutelage of their guardian and mentor, Dr. Reginald Hargreeves, its members spent their childhoods fighting evil and honing their extraordinary gifts. Until something went terribly wrong. Now, nine years later, the estranged members of the Umbrella Academy are reunited by the death of the only parent they've ever known and the rise of a new and terrible threat.

Will they be able to overcome their history for long enough to save the world-one more time?

Conceived and written by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance (below), Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award-nominated artist Gabriel Bá (De:Tales), colors by Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple-Eisner Award-winning painter James Jean (Fables).

Below are four other covers for #1, including (on the bottom row) the second print and the $1 cover from 2010.

Above are four other covers for #1: top row is the regular James Jean cover and the Gerard Way variant cover; bottom row is the second print and the $1 cover from 2010.

The Retailer Incentive edition featured here, with a cover by Gabriel Bá, was "Limited to 1,000 copies" and 100 retailers each won ten copies as part of a monthly Dark Horse 100 promotional contest.

In late January 2019, there were 112 recorded gradings of the "Special Edition" in the CGC census with one in the top grade of 9.9 (mint minus).