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Marvel Zombies

ComicsUndead2000 to 2009

Marvel Zombies shows an alternate Earth on which the Marvel superheroes have become flesh-eating zombies with their minds and powers intact. Robert Kirkman wrote the first series and Sean Phillips drew it. It was followed by several sequel series and by animated adaptations.1

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First appeared
2005
First issue December 2005
Source work
Marvel Zombies (2005)
Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips (Marvel Comics)
Made in
USA
What causes it
Other
An infected superhero from another dimension crash-lands on an alternate Earth and spreads the contagion.
How you become one
Contact with infected blood, usually through a bite.
Intelligence
Clever

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2005

First issue December 2005

field notes

What the sources say

1

The zombified heroes keep their intellect, personalities and superpowers but are ruled by hunger1

2

They eat human flesh and find other zombies' flesh unsatisfying1

3

A decapitated zombie Wasp stays conscious as a head1

4

The setting, Earth-2149, first appeared in Mark Millar's Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-231

5

Arthur Suydam painted the covers1

6

Adapted in an episode of What If...? and as an animated series in 20251

Sources

  1. Marvel Zombies - Wikipedia

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