What If The Runaways Hadn't Run Away in What If...? Runaways #1

By Chad Burdette

on August 18, 2026

For 50 years, Marvel Comics has dared to ask WHAT IF?, putting bold twists on major Marvel moments and opening the floodgates to the multiverse!

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original What If? series, Marvel will publish eight all-new WHAT IF…? one-shots this summer.

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Crafted by some of today’s biggest talents, the new one-shots shake the foundations of every corner of the Marvel mythos beginning with startling stories starring the X-Men and Thor and continuing with epic reimaginings of pivotal storylines like Secret Wars and Kraven’s Last Hunt.

Rainbow Rowell returns to ask…What if the Runaways hadn’t run away in What If…? Runaways #1

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What If…? Runaways #1

Every year, a group of philanthropists gather for a charitable fundraiser… or so their children Alex Wilder, Chase Stein, Gertrude Yorkes, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes and Nico Minoru thought.

When they discover their parents form the Pride, a sinister, sacrificial group that answers to a godly race called the Gibborim , the teens are terrified, shocked and… intrigued? Their destiny awaits, and there’s no running away.

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