Y: The Last Man #1 (2002). Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. Vertigo. The plagued-Earth universe debuts.

1st Appearance

First Appearance of Y: The Last Man's Plagued Earth

Y: The Last Man #1

September 2002 · Independent · Modern Age

Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra's 2002 gendercide-apocalypse universe. Y: The Last Man's plagued Earth is the universe where every mammal with a Y chromosome dies simultaneously, except for Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand. Vertigo / DC publishing.

Key Issue

Created by Brian K. Vaughan · Pia Guerra

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Independent Universe Brian K. Vaughan's gendered apocalypse.

Y: The Last Man's plagued Earth first appears in Y: The Last Man #1 (September 2002), Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Vertigo (DC). Every male mammal except Yorick Brown and his capuchin Ampersand dies simultaneously. The series ran sixty issues across 2002 to 2008. The 2021 FX adaptation was cancelled after one season.

First Appearance

  1. Y: The Last Man #1 cover
    First Appearance September 2002

    Y: The Last Man #1

    By Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra

    Brian K. Vaughan writes; Pia Guerra pencils. Vertigo (DC). The plagued-Earth universe debuts. Every male mammal except Yorick Brown and his capuchin Ampersand dies simultaneously; the series follows Yorick navigating the post-gendercide world. Sixty issues across 2002 to 2008.

What Y The Last Man Earth is

Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra launched Y: The Last Man at Vertigo (DC) in September 2002. The premise: every male mammal except Yorick Brown and his capuchin Ampersand dies simultaneously. The series follows Yorick navigating the post-gendercide world. Sixty issues ran across 2002 to 2008. The 2021 FX adaptation was cancelled after one season.

Collector context

Y: The Last Man #1 trades modestly. CGC 9.8 is in the high two to low three figures.

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What is Y The Last Man's first appearance?

Y: The Last Man #1 (September 2002), Vaughan and Guerra, Vertigo.

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