Planetary #1

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CGC records 359 graded copies for Planetary #1 (1999). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

All Over the World

Elijah Snow), a man as old as the 20th century, is recruited from a meaningless existence to be the third man of the organization known as Planetary). Joining Jakita Wagner), the lovely and leather-clad, super-strong team leader, and The Drummer, a technophile who can tell machines what to do, Snow learns that Planetary's goals -- funded by a mysterious fourth man -- are to uncover the secret history of the past century, wherever that quest may take them. Snow's first mission is to investigate an artificial cavern hidden in the Adirondacks, where (according to documents recovered from the KGB) it was to be the last known destination of Doctor Axel Brass), an adventurer and extraordinary man.

While on the way to the Adirondacks, Jakita explains to Elijah about Doc Brass. He was born on January 1, 1900, who shares the same birth date with several other unusual individuals. By his thirties he was a genuine renaissance man of his time. He dealt with things that no one outside of his group knew about. Things history never recorded. Brass then mysteriously disappeared in 1945. Upon entering the cavern, Elijah and Jakita find a trophy room containing unusual objects such as "The Hull of Charnel Ship" and "The Murder Colonels". They then walk into a room, where to their surprise encounter a crippled Doc Brass still alive, awake, and standing guard over an interdimensional snowflake, a quantum computer created by Brass and six associates near the end of World War Two.

Brass explains to the two that he and his allies of his era had taken on the responsibility of protecting the world, and in 1945 they designed a massive quantum computer that performed calculations through the Multiverse, which is represented in the form of a theoretical snowflake existing in 196,833 dimensional space. Doc Brass and his team had wanted to use the computer to help them build a perfect world as it enabled them to literally code the future of the world. That awesome invention also proved their undoing, as the computer opened a doorway into our reality from a parallel one. Through it came another group of super-beings, their own universe on the verge of destruction, to battle for supremacy in ours. "We saved the world that night," recalls Brass. "Only I survived." Unable to switch off the computer, Brass watches over it to make sure no one else comes through... for more than 50 years.

In the end, Brass is escorted away by Planetary's medics as Snow question Wagner if their organization got what they wanted which Jakita simply replies that they did uncover Brass' quantum supercomputer and a secret base, making everything worthwhile.

Creative credits

Writers: Warren Ellis

Interior art: John Cassaday

Color: Laura DePuy

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