Cover art by Charles Burns

Story about a plague that causes physical mutations

1st appearance of Shogo, Jubilee's adopted son

1st appearance of Arkea Prime, an aggressive bacterium and sister of John Sublime

Series about an ancient enemy threatening the end of humanity

One-shot comic commissioned by the European Union about a pandemic with scenes that are similar to the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic including, a scenario of disease transmission from animal to human in a wet market and social isolation laws put into effect

Reportedly only a few hundred copies were printed and distributed inside EU institutions

Digital version can be read online at op.europa.eu

Value unknown

Amazo Virus storyline begins and runs through issue #39

A bizarre disease has been unleashed, America has been quarantined and the whole world is at a stand still

Reintroduction of Lex Luthor's sister, Lena Luthor

Adaptation of Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in a struggle between good and evil

56-page comic with stories inspired by the Bubonic Plague

Wraparound cover by Richard Corben

Adaptation of a book by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan about an infectious virus that turns humans into vampires

The entirety of Earth's population is infected by a virus that gives unusual and sometimes dangerous abilities to only the one-percent of people who show symptoms

Mankind has been silently infected by millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica

Adapted into a television series for Netflix

A small group of scientists and military specialists band together to fight a shadow government that is targeting specific ethnic groups to launch bio-weapons called Purity Bombs

Three-issue series about the progression of an infectious meme that leads to the annihilation of the human race within 72 hours

Copies ordered by retailers: 7,010

[🚨 Key Collector Comics Exclusive - Jan 2020/ optioned by Point Grey Pictures, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's production company]

Six-part miniseries about a terrifying sickness called the Empty Man disease and the hysteria that follows

Adapted into a film

A rural family in Iowa fight to survive the initial onslaught of crazed, rabid animals, presumably the product of a mutated super-virus

Within three weeks, millions of healthy people worldwide contract an aggressive, life-threatening illness and it's up to a leading cancer researcher to end a global conspiracy before it destroys humanity

Deadpool wakes up from a food coma to a world overrun with zombies

Premiere issue of a series that connects the movie '28 Days Later' with the sequel '28 Weeks Later'

A young man with deer-like features journeys to a sanctuary, hunted by those who believe the half-human-animal hybrids are somehow responsible for the plague that has been erasing humanity

Copies ordered by retailers: 18,551

Adapted in to a television series for Netflix

[July 2021 - an inside source informs Key Collector that Netflix intends on producing two additional seasons of Sweet Tooth after the success of the first]

Four-issue adaption of the novel by Richard Matheson about a virus that turns the human population into vampires except for one man

[March 2022 - Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan confirmed for I Am Legend sequel]

An infectious plague causes it's victims to carry out their darkest, most brutal desires

1st appearance of Corona, a villain whose creation resulted in the SoHo flu being released in New York City

Part one of an 11-part crossover

After an entire Greenland village is annihilated by a lethal virus, the plague is set loose in Gotham City

Premiere issue of an ongoing series about survivors of a zombie outbreak from writer Robert Kirkman

Adapted by AMC for cable television

1st appearance of Rick Grimes

1st appearance of Shane Walsh

Print run: 7,266

Premiere issue of a series created by Brian K. Vaughn about the last man on a female populated Earth

A mysterious techno-virus has been unleashed on Earth infecting 600 million people and turning them instantly into violent, monstrous engines of destruction

Premiere issue of Marvel Zombies written by Robert Kirkman, writer of The Walking Dead

Marvel Zombies were introduced in Ultimate Fantastic Four #21 - #23

A six-issue series about an infection that indiscriminately attacks heroes and civilians, draining them of their life force

1st appearance of the Urchin

Six-issue limited series that launches the Upshot Universe: a global pandemic kills hundreds of millions but leaves some of the survivors with extraordinary powers

In search for a cure to an apocalyptic pandemic, a group of scientists travel to a region of the United States that has been walled-off from the rest of the world for decades

[September 2019 - acquired by New Republic Pictures]

[October 2021 - Charles Soule Update: Scott Snyder and I are still in the thick of writing the screenplay for New Republic Pictures, but we're well into our second draft]