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Issue: Wizard Presents Open Space #0
Publication Date: January 1999
 
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Variant: Standard Cover
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Publisher: FlagMarvel; Wizard
On Sale Date: 1999
Volume: none
Pages: 20
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.00 USD
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Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: A special free supplement to Wizard’s Alex Ross Millennium Edition publication, printing a previously unpublished story that was the first Marvel Comics work of Alex Ross.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; glossy interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Wow! Alex Ross' 1st Marvel Story!

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Subject Matter
science fiction
Sancha Etchisan-Carlsberg
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Introduction

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Without this story, you'd probably never had seen Marvels.
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Inside front cover. The story of how Alex Ross came to work at Marvel and why his first piece of work got lost for about ten years.
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Sancha Etchisan-Carlsberg
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Inside front cover. Full credits, including a reproduction of the cover without the trade dress. Also includes the indicia.
Deadline

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
science fiction
Sancha Etchisan-Carlsberg; Boromir Coe; Nancy; Quetzals (aliens, deaths); Gabriel Etchison
Astranet advertised it as a place where labor clients could escape Earth's polluted, overcrowded cities.
Colonizers from Earth find a habitable planet, but disagree over what to do about the indigenous population.
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FlagWiz #46 published August 1999
 
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Alex Ross' first work for Marvel. It was slated to be printed in issue 5 of their sci-fi anthology Open Space, but that title was cancelled with issue 4. It is printed in this comic for the first time.
Alex Ross' Deadline Sketchbook

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The story you just read is a landmark in Alex's career as a painter.
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Illustrations for the story in this comic. Some illustrations are basic pencil sketches, and some are painted.
Wizard Presents Fathom

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Inside back cover. House ad for the Wizard Magazine Fathom Special publication.
Galactus the Devourer

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superhero
A world doomed. A secret revealed. A universe changed.
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Back cover. Marvel house ad for the upcoming Galactus the Devourer (Marvel, 1999 series) mini series.

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