Maestro: World War M #1

Name: Maestro: World War M #1
Brand: Marvel
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Apr 2022 · Marvel · 4.99 USD

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“Part One: The Last Dance”

★ 1st appearance — Dakord

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Maestro: World War M #1 is the opening chapter of the third and final leg of Peter David's Earth-9200 prequel trilogy — a project that spent nearly three decades rattling around in David's head before Marvel finally greenlit it — and it functions as the narrative bridge between the two preceding miniseries and the classic 1992 Future Imperfect two-parter. The issue marks the first appearances of several Earth-9200 counterparts of major Marvel characters, including that alternate universe's Namor (Sub-Mariner), the android Human Torch (Jim Hammond), Nammu, Leonard McKenzie II, and Winston, meaningfully expanding the cast of a post-apocalyptic timeline that had been defined almost entirely by a single two-issue story for nearly thirty years. Structurally bold, the issue uses two distinct penciler-colorist pairings to separate its story threads, and shifts the narrative focus away from the title character: the Abomination, reawakened and recruited by M.O.D.O.K., functions as a conflicted anti-hero whose existential despair contrasts sharply with Maestro's ruthless triumphalism. Notably, the reintroduction of Jim Hammond — Marvel's very first published superhero, dating back to Timely Comics #1 in 1939 — brings the symbolic 'oldest' Marvel hero into direct collision with a character often described as the last surviving villain of that same universe, giving the arc a resonance that reaches across the entire span of the publisher's publication history.

writer Peter David · artist, inker Germán Peralta · artist, inker Pasqual Ferry · colorist Jesus Aburtov · colorist Matt Hollingsworth · letterer VC's Ariana Maher · cover Carlos Pacheco, Rafael Fonteriz

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History

The trilogy that culminates with World War M originated with editor Wil Moss approaching Peter David about writing a prequel to Future Imperfect, the 1992–93 two-parter David had written with George Pérez — a story whose plot threads had, by David's own account, been forming in his mind for roughly two decades. The first miniseries launched in 2020 with artists Dale Keown and Germán Peralta, followed by Maestro: War and Pax in 2021; World War M, announced publicly in October 2021, brought in Pasqual Ferry alongside Peralta for its interior art, with Carlos Pacheco providing the main cover and variant covers by Ed McGuinness, Ron Lim, and Logan Lubera. The issue shipped February 9, 2022 with an April 2022 cover date, and the five-issue series was subsequently collected in a trade paperback and also reprinted in the 2023 Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus, which gathered the complete run of David's Maestro-related work across multiple decades into a single deluxe volume.

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Released February 9, 2022 (cover-dated April 2022); titled 'The Last Dance.' Written by Peter David, with interior art by Germán Peralta and Pasqual Ferry, colors by Jesus Aburtov and Matt Hollingsworth, and letters by VC's Ariana Maher. Main cover by Carlos Pacheco.
First appearance of the Earth-9200 versions of Sub-Mariner (Namor), Human Torch (Jim Hammond/android), Nammu (Namor's wife), Leonard McKenzie II (Namor's son), and Winston.
The issue marks the debut of the android Jim Hammond — Marvel's original Human Torch, first published in Timely Comics #1 in 1939 — within the Earth-9200 continuity; the issue reveals that Namor had been keeping Hammond in stasis, and Hammond is unleashed against Maestro at the issue's climax.
Serves as the opening chapter of the third and concluding miniseries of David's Maestro prequel trilogy, following Maestro (2020) and Maestro: War and Pax (2021), all set in the alternate timeline Earth-9200.
The storyline functions as a prequel to Peter David and George Pérez's landmark 1992–93 two-parter Incredible Hulk: Future Imperfect, depicting events that lead directly into that original story.
Abomination (Emil Blonsky) is framed as the issue's de facto protagonist and anti-hero — reawakened from A.I.M. stasis by M.O.D.O.K. and recruited to form an alliance against Maestro alongside Namor and Doctor Doom.
M.O.D.O.K. (George Tarleton) appears in the issue only as an illusion or holographic simulation; Beast (Hank McCoy) and Wolverine (Logan) appear only as skeletal remains, reflecting the post-apocalyptic state of the Earth-9200 universe.
The complete five-issue series was collected in a trade paperback (2022) and subsequently reprinted in the Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus (November 2023), which compiles David's full body of Maestro work.