Do you ever wish you had seen the 1st issue of the comic you discovered after it had been out a while?
When you visit the Graphic Novels section of VertigoComics.com, any graphic novel titles with a #1 icon will have a download of the ground breaking first issue!
Now you can read the full first issues of the many Vertigo series that revolutionized comics! To download a free PDF version of the first issue of these classic Vertigo series, click the cover or title links below, then click the Download Issue #1 link!
DEADMAN VOL. 1: DEADMAN WALKING - This unique series explores the mysteries of life and love after death. When Brandon Cayce is killed in a horrifying airplane wreck caused by his brother, he must confront the riddles of life and death head-on. Brandon realizes the person with the answers to save him from his demise may be his late brother’s own wife, a woman he once loved himself.
JACK OF FABLES VOL. 1: THE (NEARLY) GREAT ESCAPE - The charming and insufferable Jack of Tales steps out of the pages of Bill Willingham’s acclaimed Eisner Award-winning series FABLES to star in his own series. Jack has left the comfort of Fabletown to make his way across the heartland of America and has extreme adventures with other notorious, renegade Fables along the way.
SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL. 1: THE TARANTULA - In this noir detective tale of intrigue, bigotry and incest, millionaire Wesley Dodds takes on the costumed persona of the Sandman to catch a sadistic killer in 1930s New York. Donning a gas mask, fedora, business suit and cape, Dodds goes after the Tarantula, a brutal kidnapper who is mercilessly preying upon the women of high society. But as the Sandman walks through a world of corruption and deceit, he uncovers the true secret of the murders and their implausible connection to the city’s most prominent family.
HUMAN TARGET - Christopher Chance, a master of disguise, makes a living by cunningly taking on the appearance and persona of men and women with contracts out against them.
THE SANDMAN VOL. 1: PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES - The first story of Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, tells of his plight and the quest he must undertake to retain his lost kingdom.
100 BULLETS VOL. 1: FIRST SHOT, LAST CALL - The series in which the mysterious Agent Graves offers immunity to everyday people to carry out their innermost desires of vengeance with the 100 bullets that he supplies. Can they pull the trigger?