Chad Burdette
The finale of the X-Men’s latest milestone crossover, X-Manhunt, saw Professor X depart to the stars to rescue his daughter, Xandra, deposed Majestrix of the Shi’ar Empire.
The intergalactic order was fractured forever in IMPERIAL #1, the debut issue of the four-part event series that revolutionizes cosmic storytelling in the Marvel Universe!
Comic Watch Review:
- Imperial #1: In Space, No One Can Hear Your War Cry
- Imperial #2: Click, Click, Boom
- Imperial #3: Wheels Within Wheels
Written by visionary creator Jonathan Hickman, known for his redefining work on the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, and drawn by Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini, two of the industry’s most acclaimed artistic talents, IMPERIAL serves as the foundation for an entire landscape of new galaxy-spanning series and packed with bold developments for characters like Black Panther, Hulk, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, and many more
Related:
- Marvel Announces New Series Spinning Out Of IMPERIAL
- Imperial #4 Marks The Beginning, Not The End Of Marvel’s New Cosmic Era
- Marvel Announces The Two Of The Five Imperial Event Oneshot Tie-Ins
- The Final Imperial War Oneshot Arrives This October In IMPERIAL WAR: IMPERIAL GUARDIANS #1
The five IMPERIAL WAR one-shots represent key chapters of the overarching IMPERIAL narrative and will each be co-written by event architect Jonathan Hickman.
- IMPERIAL WAR: EXILES by acclaimed writer Steve Foxe (Dark X-Men) and superstar artist Francesco Manna (Giant-Size House of M) will follow up on Professor X’s departure from Earth as the X-Men’s founder assembles a new team of heroes to protect his daughter, the recently deposed Empress Xandra. I
- MPERIAL WAR: NOVA – CENTURION sees blockbuster Marvel writer Jed MacKay (X-Men, Avengers) join the action alongside rising star artist Matteo Della Fonte (Bring on the Bad Guys: Green Goblin) to take the helm of the galaxy’s most steadfast defender.
- IMPERIAL WAR: IMPERIAL GUARDIANS #1 – The Super-Skrull finds himself at the center of a seditious scheme with consequences that will be felt by the entire cosmos by Dan Abnett and Cory Smith
- IMPERIAL WAR: PLANET SHE-HULK #1 – Left behind on New Sakaar to keep the peace, Jen Walters discovers that in this savage realm, what’s needed isn’t a litigator, it’s a liquidator from Stephanie Phillips and Emilio Laiso
- IMPERIAL WAR: BLACK PANTHER #1: T’Challa Must Survive A Brutal Assault From The World-Breaker Hulk and Amadeus Cho from Victor LaValle and CAFU
Francesco Mobili Variant Cover:
Leinil Francis Yu, Mark Bagley, Rachelle Rosenberg Character Variant / 1:50 Incentive Virgin Variant Cover:
Imperial War: Black Panther #1
Blamed for the assassinations that have started an all-out galactic war, T’Challa will first need to survive a brutal assault from the World-Breaker Hulk and Amadeus Cho before he can even think about hunting down the true culprit! And all while his spacecraft spirals towards certain doom! Sounds like another day at the office for the Black Panther!
Creative Team
- Writer: Victor LaValle & Jonathan Hickman
- Artist: CAFU
- Colorist: David Curiel
- Letterer: Ariana Maher
- Designer: Tom Muller
- Standard Cover Artist(s): Leinil Francis Yu & Romulo Fajardo Jr.
- Variant Cover Artist(s): Francesco Mobili; Leinil Francis Yu, Mark Bagley, Rachelle Rosenberg
- Executive Editor : Tom Brevoort
- Editor: Annalise Bissa
- Assistant Editor: Lindsey Cohick
- Format: Limited Series
- Cover Price/Page Count: $3.99/32 Pages
T’Challa will first need to survive a brutal assault from the World-Breaker Hulk and Amadeus Cho in Imperial War: Black Panther #1 on shelves and diigtal platforms on August 27, 2025, from Marvel Comics
