Ruins #1 (1995)
Ruins #1 is the premiere issue of the Ruins series from Marvel, released August 1, 1995. Written by Warren Ellis with artwork by Cliff Nielsen. This page represents the regular first-print Cover A edition.
As a counterpoint to the legendary Marvels series, Warren Ellis explores a Marvel universe where absolutely everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong. Reporter Phil Sheldon investigates a dark and hopeless world where no supermen or women were created from amazing accidents, instead they have all died horrible deaths, or worse.
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- Two-part story that gives a dark perspective of the superhero influence in the real world, opposite of Kurt Busiek's 'Marvels' series, details include: Jean Grey is a prostitute, Captain Marvel and the Kree afflicted with cancer are confined to a Nevada reservation and Spider-Man contracts a radioactive virus from the spider bite
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