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The Walking Dead: Compendium One

Name: The Walking Dead: Compendium One
Rating: 4.45 (71998 reviews)
Author: Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman May 19, 2009

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Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection.

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. With The Walking Dead #1-48, this compendium features more than one thousand pages chronicling the start of Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning story of zombie horror, from Rick Grimes waking up alone in a hospital, his band of survivors seeking refuge on an isolated farm and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot, The Governor.

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