Frankenstein #1
"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" kicks off Marvel's 1973 Frankenstein series with a chilling tale of discovery and creation, as Robert Walton IV leads an Arctic expedition to recover the frozen body of Frankenstein's Monster. Told through Walton’s firsthand account to a cabin boy, the story unfolds with eerie precision, weaving in the origins of the creature with a haunting sense of dread. Written by Gary Friedrich and Mary Shelley, with evocative art by Mike Ploog on both interior and cover, this issue blends gothic horror with a unique narrative framing.
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Robert Walton IV leads an expedition into the Arctic to retrieve Frankenstein's Monster which has been frozen into the ice. He relates to the cabin boy how the monster was created.
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