Incognito (comics)
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Cover of Incognito 1 (Dec, 2008).Art by Sean Phillips.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Icon Comics (imprint of Marvel Comics) |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | December 2008 |
| Number of issues | 6; 5 (second series) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Ed Brubaker |
| Artist(s) | Sean Phillips |
| Colorist(s) | Val Staples |
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Incognito is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, It was published by the Icon Comics imprint of Marvel Comics.
A second five issue miniseries, Incognito: Bad Influences, was released in late 2010.
The first series was published in December 2008 and ran for six issues. The title took a seven-month hiatus while the creaters worked on the third volume of Criminal. It returned in November 2010 and ran for another five issues.
Each issue featured an article written by Jess Nevins on the pulp characters The Shadow (#1), Doc Savage (#2), The Spider (#3), Operator No. 5 (#4), Fu Manchu (#5), and Zeppelin Pulps (#6). The articles in the second miniseries focused on The Phantom Detective (#1), G-8 (#2), Captain Future (#3), Nick Carter (#4), and Pulp Supervillains (#5).
The comic is set in a world in which larger-than-life pulp heroes and villains have existed since the early 19th century. The original super was an escaped convict named Kenneth Lee who went by the name the Black Death. His powers came from a radioactive object which landed in New England over 200 years ago. Other notable supers include the descendants of the soldiers who were chasing him including the Doc Savage-esque "Professor Zeppelin," the Shadow-esque "Lazarus". After World War II, the SOS agency created by Zeppelin has kept most stories about the supers out of the news.
The comic deals with former science villain Zack Overkill, who is in the Witness Protection Program after giving testimony against The Black Death. Zack is required to take a drug that eliminates his super abilities and given a job delivering mail in an office.
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