Nathan Never #166
Nathan Never #166 lands in one of the most consequential editorial periods in the series' history — the immediate aftermath of the 'Guerra con le Stazioni Orbitanti' saga (issues #157–161), which catastrophically restructured the entire narrative universe by crashing the orbital station Urania onto the East City and eliminating several core cast members. The post-war arc beginning around issue #162 represented a deliberate creative reset, introducing new Alfa agents and a bleaker, post-apocalyptic urban atmosphere that redefined the series' tone for years. Issues in this window, including #166, belong to the phase scholars of the series regard as among its most significant continuity-building stretches, as the creative team worked to repopulate and reimagine the world they had just devastated.
ComicBooks.com Value
This exact issue on ebay
Raw / ungraded ▾ $1.37–$4.46 3 listings
More listings for this title
Sell my copy
Have this issue — or a whole collection? Get a fair offer from us, skip the marketplace fees and the hassle.
We Buy Collections ▸History
Nathan Never was created by Michele Medda, Antonio Serra, and Bepi Vigna — collectively nicknamed 'la banda dei sardi' — who had pitched the science-fiction concept to Sergio Bonelli as early as the late 1980s, though editorial planning originally targeted a launch alongside Dylan Dog in 1986; technical delays pushed the debut to June 1991, making it Bonelli's first dedicated science-fiction series. By the time issue #166 was published (circa late 2004 based on the monthly schedule following issue #161 in October 2004), the editorial team was executing a deliberate post-saga reconstruction, scripted across multiple writers with Roberto De Angelis providing covers from issue #60 through #249. The specific writer and interior artist for #166 have not been identified in any publicly available source consulted.
Trivia · 8 facts
- Nathan Never #166 is part of the regular monthly series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore, formatted in the standard 'bonellide' black-and-white digest (approximately 16×21 cm, ~100 pages).
- The issue falls in the immediate post-'Guerra con le Stazioni Orbitanti' narrative phase; that saga ran from issue #157 (June 2004) to #161 (October 2004) and ended with the orbital station Urania crashing into the East City, killing millions and permanently altering the series' setting.
- Issue #162, titled 'Dopo l'apocalisse,' marked a three-year in-story time skip and the beginning of a new character recruitment cycle for the depleted Agenzia Alfa — making issues #162–170 a transitional arc of high continuity significance.
- Nicole Bayeux, a major new Alfa agent introduced in this post-war period, appears in the series from approximately issue #162 or #165 onward (sources disagree on the precise debut issue) and serves as a key recurring character through issue #199, when she becomes stranded in the past during the Saga Spazio-Temporale.
- The cover of issue #166, like all regular issues from #60 through #249, was produced by Roberto De Angelis, who served as the series' primary cover artist across this span.
- The series was created by Michele Medda, Antonio Serra, and Bepi Vigna, with Claudio Castellini as original character designer and cover artist for issues #1–59.
- The Grand Comics Database lists issue #166 in the series index without a recorded story title, indicating limited archival documentation for this specific issue.
- No English-language key-issue databases (Key Collector, GoCollect) contain a dedicated entry for Nathan Never #166, reflecting the series' status as a primarily Italian-market publication with limited English-language collector-database coverage.
Key issues in Nathan Never
Reviews
Reader reviews
No reader reviews yet.