2001, A Space Odyssey — Marvel
Issue: #1
Last valuation update: 2025-11-21
The issue starts in the distant past where the monolith instructs a hunter on how to craft a spear and then shifts to the future where two astronauts discover an alien ruin. One of the astronauts is killed by a creature, but the other, Woodrow Decker, is transported into a pastoral countryside by the monolith. Here he rapidly ages until he dies and is converted by the monolith into an embryo-type...
First appearances: Beast-Killer, Woodrow Decker
Creators: Jack Kirby, Archie Goodwin, George Roussos, John Verpoorten, Michael Royer, Arthur C. Clarke
Characters: Beast-Killer, Woodrow Decker