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Alien: The Original Screenplay                            Variant Comics Lot
Featuring an adaptation of Dan O’Bannon’s original 1976 screenplay (originally titled: Star Beast)
Featuring The Complete Variant B Cover Collection by Dave Stewart & Walter Simonson!  Awesome!!
Story: Dan O’Bannon
Adaptation Script: Cristiano Seixas
Artist: Guilherme Balbi
Colorist: Candice Han
Letterer: Michael Heisler
Editors: Randy Stradley & Judy Khuu
All Variant Covers B by: Dave Stewart & Walter Simonson

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon. Based on a story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who encounter the eponymous Alien, an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. The Alien and its accompanying artifacts were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time. The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of films, novels, comic books, video games, and toys. It also launched Weaver’s acting career, providing her with her first lead role. The story of her character’s encounters with the Alien creatures became the thematic and narrative core of the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). A crossover with the Predator franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator films: Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). A prequel series includes Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017), both directed by Ridley Scott.

In 1976, Twentieth Century Fox bought a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon entitled, “Star Beast”. Three years later Alien was unleashed on unsuspecting filmgoers. Now, Dark Horse Comics presents a comic adaptation of Dan O’Bannon’s original 1976 screenplay. It’s an all new Alien with an all new Alien! A slightly new experience, but so still terrifying that… “no one will hear you scream” in space or wherever you’re reading the series.

Stories/Spoilers
In issue #1B, En route to back to Earth, the crew of the starship Snark intercepts an alien transmission. Their investigation leads them to a desolate planetoid, a crashed alien spacecraft, and a pyramidic structure of unknown origin. Then the terror begins…

During a voyage back to Earth, the commercial vessel Snark’s computer awakens its crew of six – Captain Chaz Standard, First Officer Martine Roby, Navigator Dell Broussard, Engineer Jay Faust, Communications Officer Sandy Melkonis and Mining Engineer Cleave Hunter. The crew are received by a transmission of unknown alien origin from a nearby planetoid. Though Roby is less than convinced of the prospect, Standard ultimately agrees for the crew to investigate the possible S.O.S. The landing on the planetoid causes subsequent damage to the ship, and after the revelation that the transmission is only three-hundred metres away, Standard, Broussard and Melkolis don breathing masks and personally seek out the signal. The group discover that the origins of the transmission are coming from a bizarre derelict, inside it, a gigantic petrified corpse of an alien, also noticing a hollow leathery object on the ground and an inscription scratched onto the wall. They return to the Snark, taking a sample of the corpse with them.

Next in issue #2B, The intercepted voice transmission has been interpreted-a dire warning but is it too late? As the crew continues to survey the massive pyramid structure, they find an entrance. Who goes in, won’t come out alone.

Broussard manages to scan the planetoid’s atmosphere and notices a pyramid like structure in the atmosphere. Though the crew are unanimously unsure of the pyramid’s function, Standard, Broussard and Melkolis venture outwards again towards it. Back at the ship, Roby has the computer successfully translate the message. Horrified, she proclaims that it wasn’t an S.O.S, but a warning. The three reach the pyramid, with Broussard grappling to the top of it. There, he finds a single hole at the top small enough to fit a single person, and opts to explore it by tethering downwards, cutting himself off from Standard and Melkolis. After finally reaching the bottom, he is met with a large chamber full of warped bio-organic murals and inscriptions, with grotesque leathery objects surrounding him. He goes to inspect one before it opens and a small squid-like Alien creature leaps out and attaches itself to his face. Standard and Melkolis pull him out of the chamber and return to the Snark. Standard demands to Roby to let them back in and despite her protests she hesitantly complies. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Broussard’s face, discovering that its blood is an extremely corrosive molecular acid & extremely noxious smelling…

Next in issue #3B, The crew makes a shocking discovery about the artifacts found in the pyramid. Unaware of the danger they have brought aboard, the Snark departs the alien planet-and within secure confines of the ship, a horror unknown to man will be unleashed.

The crew conclude that objects in the pyramid were eggs, and that the pilot of the derelict had acquired one and bought it back to the ship, only to have been unwittingly killed. Eventually the creature detaches itself from Broussard, seemingly dead and begins decomposing, with Standard throwing the dead creature out of the ship. Broussard awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins convulsing. An alien creature subsequently erupts from his chest, killing him in the process before escaping into the ship interior. Discussing their options, the crew plan to capture the creature using motion detectors, electric prods and nets.

Next in issue #4B, The alien is loose aboard the ship, with every attempt at eradicating it proving more deadly. As the creature reveals its true form, the crew discovers a horrifying new development.

They eventually manage to capture it in the food-storage room, only for it to escape through the vents. It has supposedly grown much bigger and looks far different than before, with Standard describing it as “a worm with legs…and tentacles”. The group intend to flush the creature from the shafts and into an airlock, and after losing to a selection method, Hunter reluctantly arms himself with a flamethrower and heads into the vents. However, the plan goes awry after the creature, now far larger, emerges from the vents, decapitates Melkolis and swiftly retreats back into the shafts. After encountering the creature in the main airlock while looking for more flamethrower fuel, Faust contacts Roby to blow the lock, though he is in-avertedly killed after being caught between the airlock doors. Only Standard, Roby and Hunter remain. Though they initially opt to take their chances in the life boat, they realize that they could lure the creature into the ship and blow it up with explosives after launching it. As they need someone to act as bait, they play another selection game.

Finally in issue #5B, The fight for survival! Sheer terror befalls the remaining crew members as the Alien claims the ship as its feeding ground. With retaliation proving futile, the only way out is to run.

Roby is chosen and the group split up. However, Standard and Hunter are attacked by the creature, Hunter is killed and Standard is taken. Roby later discovers a half-dead Standard cocooned in a resin, and begs for Roby to kill her, to which she complies. She subsequently sets the Snark to self-destruct and escapes into the safety of the escape-ship. However, she later notices that the Alien had snuck aboard. Roby dons a space suit, shoots the creature with a harpoon-gun and blasts it into space, before incinerating it with the ship’s engines. With the creature finally dead, Roby puts herself into stasis for the return journey back to Earth.

Variant Comics lot contains: Alien: The Original Screenplay {Complete Cover B Collection} (2020) Issues 1-5.  Dark Horse Comics

Variant Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: 2020
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 761568006681

Collectible Entertainment note: Variant Comics 1B,2B,3B,4B,5B are in Very Good to Very Fine condition. (issues 1 & 4 have creased corners >> front top left… see scans #2 & 8 so Very Good / other issues are Fine + to Very Fine)  Overall… Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Aliens and/or Movie Adaptation collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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