Alien (2021 Marvel 1st Series) #1A – CGC 9.8 Comic Book

Alien (2021 Marvel 1st Series) #1A launches Marvel’s new Alien era and sets the tone for a darker, more personal chapter in the franchise. The story follows Gabriel Cruz, a former Weyland-Yutani security chief stationed on Epsilon Station, whose life has been shaped by a traumatic past encounter with xenomorphs. Haunted by nightmares and fragmented memories, Cruz returns to Earth hoping to rebuild his relationship with his estranged son Danny, but the reunion only exposes how far the damage between them has gone.

What begins as an attempt at reconciliation quickly turns into another descent into horror when Danny uses his father’s corporate access and old ties to infiltrate Epsilon Station with an activist group. The station is not the server farm they expected, but a hidden research site containing disturbing biological experiments tied to xenomorph DNA. As the violence escalates, the classic Alien cycle of discovery, containment failure, and horrifying creature emergence kicks back into motion, delivering a fresh variation on the franchise’s familiar egg–facehugger–xenomorph nightmare.twobeardgaming.

For collectors, this issue is especially important as the first Marvel-published Alien comic and the opening key issue of the new series. It introduces Gabriel Cruz, Danny Cruz, Epsilon Station, and the central modern storyline that expands the Alien universe under Marvel’s banner. This copy is professionally graded CGC 9.8, indicating Near Mint/Mint condition, and is preserved in a hard plastic slab for long-term protection and display.