Image Comics Releasing The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 1

Robert Kirkman is a popular, and happy, guy right about now. Not only is his work The Walking Dead in production for a run on AMC, but Image Comic is releasing the first 48 issues of the comic in a handy, dandy compendium. It's an excellent way for fans to get primed for the AMC series and Kirkman would kind of like you to read it.

“This is the perfect opportunity to catch up with THE WALKING DEAD before the AMC series debuts,” states Kirkman. “It’s a great way to get started with the series or to catch up with your favorite Walking Dead characters.”

The Walking Dead Compendium, Vol. 1 is a whopping (and I mean WHOPPING) 1088 page, black and white book that (as mentioned above) collects the first 48 issues of the series. It'll be available for $59.99 on September 1, a month before the series debuts on AMC.

Full press release after the jump.

WALK LIKE THE DEAD
Image Comics reprints THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 just in time for the AMC series

Berkeley, CA - 9 June 2010 - Starting this October, you’ll be able to watch The Walking Dead on AMC. You can prepare to join The Walking Dead by picking up the new printing of THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 TP on September 1.

THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 collects the first 48 issues of the ongoing series by writer Robert Kirkman with art by Charlie Adlard and Tony Moore. It weighs in at more than 1000 pages of zombies and the people who try to survive them.

“This is the perfect opportunity to catch up with THE WALKING DEAD before the AMC series debuts,” states Kirkman. “It’s a great way to get started with the series or to catch up with your favorite Walking Dead characters.”

In THE WALKING DEAD, an epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. Society has crumbled, and a handful of survivors lead by Rick Grimes fight to live in a world ruled by the dead.

THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1, a 1088-page black and white trade paperback collecting the first 48 issues of the series, will be available for $59.99 on September 1, 2010. The AMC series debuts in October.

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