Duck and Cover #1 (Raw VF/NM) - Dark Horse Comics Cover A (Scott Snyder / Rafael Albuquerque)

Expand your post-apocalyptic and horror inventory with Duck and Cover #1 (Cover A), published by Dark Horse Comics in partnership with Best Jackett Press! Created by the award-winning American Vampire duo—writer Scott Snyder (Batman, Wytches) and artist Rafael Albuquerque (Detective Comics, Huck), with colors by Marcelo Maiolo and lettering by Bernardo Brice.

The upper-left corner displays the Dark Horse Comics horsehead logo box along with the trade dress indicating ISSUE 1 and the $4.99 cover price. Dominating the top right is the bold red title logo DUCK AND COVER. The bottom-left corner credits the complete creative team: Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Marcelo Maiolo, and Bernardo Brice, alongside Rafael Albuquerque's in-art signature dated 2023.

The intense cover artwork—crafted by Rafael Albuquerque—features a terrified man with glasses taking cover underneath a school desk as a fiery nuclear explosion blasts in the background, casting bright orange and yellow reflections across the scene.

Set in an alternate 1955, the series follows Del, a teenage projectionist in a small town showing a classic monster movie when an actual nuclear exchange occurs. Expecting total annihilation, the survivors instead discover that the nuclear radiation has given rise to terrifying, mutated horrors, turning their post-war world into a battle for survival.

This unslabbed raw comic issue is in top-tier collectible condition (estimated VF/NM 9.0 or better), featuring clean edges, sharp corners, a flat spine, and fiery orange-red color contrast—making it an essential pickup for Scott Snyder fans, Rafael Albuquerque art collectors, indie horror readers, and premiere issue completionists.