Cobalt-60 (comic)
| Cobalt 60 | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Shangri L'Affaires (Shaggy) Epic Illustrated (Marvel Comics) Tundra Publishing Heavy Metal |
| First appearance | Shangri L'Affaires #73 (April 1968) |
| Created by | Vaughn Bodē |
| In-story information | |
| Species | Human |
| Place of origin | Earth |
| Cobalt 60 | |
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Cover of the 1988 Cobalt 60 Starblaze Graphics book collection. Art by Mark Bodé. |
| Series publication information | |
| Schedule | (Epic Illustrated) Bimonthly (Tundra) Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | Apocalyptic science fiction |
| Publication date |
(Epic Illustrated) Dec. 1984 – Aug. 1985 (Tundra) Feb. – May 1992 |
| Number of issues |
(Epic Illustrated): 5 (Tundra): 4 |
| Main character(s) | Cobalt 60 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Vaughn Bodē, Larry Todd |
| Artist(s) | Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodé |
| Letterer(s) | Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodé |
| Colorist(s) | Mark Bodé |
| Collected editions | |
| Cobalt 60 | |
Cobalt 60 is a science fiction comics series created by underground cartoonist Vaughn Bodē. After appearing in one story in 1968, the character lay dormant for almost 20 years. In 1984, Cobalt 60 was revived by Vaughn Bodē's son Mark Bodé and writer Larry Todd.
Vaughn Bodē reputedly first drew the character Cobalt 60 on a piece of scratch paper in 1959. Nearly ten years later, in 1968, he wrote and drew a ten-page, black-and-white, pen-and-ink Cobalt 60 story for Ken Rudolph's sci-fi fanzine Shangri L'Affaires (a.k.a. Shaggy) #73. The story did not expound much on the character, instead concentrating on action and a thorough depiction of the story's setting. Bodē wrote a prose follow-up of the story, with pencil illustrations, for Shaggy #74. Bodē won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine Artist largely on the strength of Cobalt 60. In addition, the initial ten-page story was later republished in Witzend #7 (April 1970), in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Metal Hurlant in 1980, and in Epic Illustrated #27 (Dec. 1984).
Although Bodē had created a cast of characters with whom he could populate a more involved story, he never did anything else with the material. (His son Mark Bodé said the project had made him too depressed.)
In 1984, Cobalt 60 was revived via full-color art by Mark Bodé and a story scripted by Larry Todd (a former friend and collaborator of Vaughn Bodē's from the 1960s). These latter-day Cobalt 60 stories were serialized in the magazine Epic Illustrated starting with the December 1984 issue. Although the story included all of Vaughn Bodé's original elements, Mark Bodé said the finished product was more "lighthearted" than what he felt his father would have done.
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